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My brother was abused. But the police just laughed at us when we turned to them. Is that right? Help?!?
My step dad's always hated my brother. My brother has a temper and likes to joke about so he got into some **** at school. My brother and my stepdad never got on because my dad had turned him against our stepdad.
basically our step dad would always threaten him. He once threatened to throw him out of the window and he picked him up and carried him over to it and opened it... He would swear at him all the time and yell bloody murder at him. He has the worst temper ever. One time, my brother was swearing and my step dad punched him round the face. He said he did it soft, but it left a ******* mark. There was a huge red mark on my brothers face for days after that.
He's hurt him before, but he never left a mark on him before that time.
Basically my brother called my dad who then called the police.
The police came and arrested my stepdad but after questioning him he was released the same day without charge. When they arrested him they were being so nice, and jking with him. They even said they knew he hadnt done anything and that he had nothing to worry about. And they laughed with him and my mum about it. I was so mad. This guy had abused my brother, and they were being nice to him?! The police came round with him to drop him home after, and they were actually APPOLOGISING to HIM! And saying how they didn't blame him for what he did and sorry to have bothered him blablabla. And then they blamed my brother and my dad (because they've arrested my dad before) and it was horrible. This guy had abused my brother...there was a mark on my brothers face...my mum witnessed him punching my brother...I heard it and saw the mark...my friends saw the mark on my brothers face at school...WHY DID THEY NOT PUT HIM ON TRIAL? Is it because my dad reported him and they hate my dad? Or are they just assholes?
The thing that hurt most was that they laughed with him, and said my brother deserved it.
This is the UK 2011, adults aint allowed to abuse children nowadays. And police officers certainly shouldn't allow it!
Should I tell someone about it? Like a teacher at school? This was a year ago now, but I still feel really bad as my brother moved out soon after to live with our dad and my stepdad aint been punished for it.............:/
Thanks, I appreciate you answering..
And he was 11 at the time.
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- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
My dad was choking me and chasing me around the house one day and my family was trying to hold me back so I would not fight back, I called the cops and i ended up getting arrested, my mom said that I hit her wich was a lie, I had bruises but the cops for some reason they believed my dad, I got arrested and got put into anger management classes, I could have went to court but "I KNEW" my dad would be in jail so I just took the community service and the classes, What im trying to say is cops will always believe parents over their kids, cops will always believe the wife over the husband, thats just how it is calling the police wont do much nowadays. :/
Source(s): In Florida parents can hit their kids as much and as hard as they want, but they cant hit them hard enough to break ribs or bones, its pretty fucked up. Im from America and here you can press charges if you want. - jennifer pLv 710 years ago
telling someone about it now wont have any effect have no evidence.
most police/crown prosecution will see it as a family matter and not worthy of going to trial.........also u dont say how old u brother was at the time.
