So I came across this article just now. You can read it now or later or never, but basically, it details a woman with a 3 year old boy who met a guy online and let him move in with her 2 months later. The two months following BF moving in, he proceeded to abuse the boy by dunking him under water, shoving him in the freezer, burning him on the heater, with scalding water, smothering him with pillows and even more. When the woman was asked why she allowed the abuse to continue she responded, "I guess I was in love with him. I didn't want to lose him." "Him" being the boyfriend. Disgusting.
Reading her quote made me think of someone I know. A pregnant woman, in a terrible relationship with not a great person at all, a guy who's proved that he doesn't value life and who is an alcoholic with absolutely no experience with babies and small children. Despite the fact that she knows this is a bad relationship and he doesn't treat her all that well either, she does everything she can to stay with him, including being nearly estranged from the nearly all of her friends and family, for the exact reason that the woman above allowed her boyfriend to abuse her son.
What is going to happen if this other guy gets fed up with his infant baby screaming at night? Or if the baby throws up on him or does something else to make him angry? What if he's drunk? What if he goes to far? Will this woman let is happen because she "doesn't want to lose him"? Scary stuff.
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