Originally posted by 2kitties
If the father is abusive, we have a court system to deal with him. The mother should not have taken the law into her own hands without first exhausting her legal options. I feel so bad for this young man. Who knows what he has missed out on in his life. That's some way to have a glass of morning milk, ya know!
Well for your information the court systems don't always work.

AND, if he was abusive who cares if he never gets to see the kid again, that's his fault! I don't take pitty on any man who beats his wife, none.

My mother was in a very abusive relationship with my younger brother and sisters father, and we finally scaped and went into hiding. The police NEVER did anything to him. He would beat my mom every day, and not once did they take him away and prosecute him. He went to jail for 24 hours and then was let go. Countless of times we called the police, and each time I watched in agony them not do anything. Finally we had to go into hiding at a Women's shelter and it was the best move my mother ever made. After we were able to get into our own place again, he tracked us down yet again, and broke until our house drunk. He proceeded to let all my mothers cockatiels lose, all her hard work and love for these animals. Some were babies, and were caught by cats because while we were out shopping he was destroying our house. Then he pissed all over the house, and then fell asleep. We had to call the cops, who just let him stay in the house and told us to leave until he woke up.

He broke my mother wrist when she was pregnant, and punched her in the stomach multiple times.

When I was 18 my ex boyfriend tried to murder me, he held a knife to my throat and was this - close to slitting it. He tied me up and held my captive in his bedroom for three months, and NONE of his family helped me. He then elbowed me in the face and split my tongue open and I was bleeding everywhere. I was tied to the bed with zip ties, so tight that I was bleeding. I finally got him to let me go when I was screaming bloody murdur and I ran to a friends house for help and immediately called 911. What happened to him? Nothing! Absolutely NOTHING! Why? Because he didn't have a record. He had never abused another women in the past. They tried to blame the whole thing on me and even blamed the scratched on his arm from climbing the fence of my friends back yard on me stabbing him with a pocket knife. That's the justice us women get here in California.

Just about a year ago he tried to kill his nephew of 15 years. His family said nothing, so nothing happened to him. One day he really will murder someone, and that will be a sad day.