"I CANNOT LEAVE MY FRIEND WHILE SHE IS IN DANGER"
Hi, please help me
come in contact with people in France that can assist my
friend. She recently took a courageous step forward and
went to the police.
But as you know it is not enough. I have been living
with the family
in France for about 6 months and have seen domestic
violence like I have never seen in real life before. She
experiences aggressive verbal mental and physical abuse
daily. Yesterday evening she went to her parents home
and was punched in the face by her own brother
repeatedly. She managed
to flee the house in terror as I shut the door between
them, preventing her brother to continue his beatings.
She is in her forties and he is slightly older and her
son is a young teenager.
This is too much
for me as I have spoken to both her brother and son on a
previous occasion about not using their hands to beat
women but to protect women instead. She also finally had
the courage to go to the
police and
report the abuse but even with proof the police seems
limited in action. Apparently a
Youth
Judge can make
the decision which is another 3 months away. In only two
weeks her son caused over 600 euros of damage to her
property and I had to restrain him twice already from
assaulting his mother, but he keeps intimidating her, is
verbally abusive and through destroying things he wants
to show that he still has the power over her. His mother
was choked and verbally abused for 10 minutes in the
safety of her own home by her son, while laying face
down on the floor and him sitting on her back. This only
came to light when I restrained him during a incident of
assault when she,
in her distress,
revealed the hidden secret.
At the time she
told her own
mother who advised her not to go to the police. She now
lives with the perpetrator in silent fear and sometimes
explodes because
of her will to
free herself. This is common among abusers who
are forced to continue living with their
perpetrators. Drugs have escalated his rage and demand
for money and he continues to steal, intimidate,
threaten and to cause damage. I am leaving soon but not
before I know that she is safe from this domestic
violence. Please help.
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