So in my little apartment, I can hear what my neighbors do pretty well. I can hear when they get loud, when they walk around loud, you know, stuff you'd expect. But I have a family to the left of my home, and I hear screaming and crying most nights. When I am going to my car to go to classes in the morning, I can see the little boy I know to live n that apartment, and he's badly bruised some mornings. He was today, and I asked him about it. I tried to tell him it was okay, that I wasn't gonna hurt him, and that I just wanted to know what happened because he looked pretty bad. He just backed away and ran away. The kid was like 6 or 7 years old :nope: . I was pretty badly hurt and beat up when I was a kid, and I know how it feels when you're a kid and you get the living hell beaten out of you for no reason at all. I just want to help him, what can I do? I don't wanna contact the authorities because I know that might make his life worse if he's sent to an orphanage, and I know that from personal experience. Is there anything i can do?

Contact the authorities. I know you said you don't want to, but not wanting to just because he'll have to suffer through our crappy adoption system is stupid. Yes, that'll svck, but you know what else svcks? Being beaten up by your parents while a neighbor sits by and does nothing because he thinks you're better off this way. If you think he's getting hurt, call the [censored] authorities.

Unfortunately contacting the authorities is the only course of action I can think of. If you got the guts you can confront the parents directly but that might really make things worse, I think if it really is as bad as it sounds it might be in the kid's best interest to have the police or some social workers intervene.

where do you live i will beat the F out of anyone who harms a kid

yeah me or the authorities or you confronting them

Authorities.

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Beating up the people doing that doesn't solve anything, and the kid is going to be more confused. While still a child they do have almost a bonding with parents. So fighting his own parents for him will probably scare the hell out of him. More so if he's not sure how he feels about them in the first place.

Make his life worse at the orphanage? Honestly, how much worse can it get? If his parents are abusing him, they are not going to get better at all, and under no circumstances should they have any right to raise a kid, let alone get away with this crap.

Just tell maybe not social services but I know many people who work in social services and I'd just let them know to keep an eye on that family.
There is little you can do in that situation, I am an avid redditor and there was an AMA a while back of a guy who's mother abused him and his siblings, and many times his father confronted her and went to social services and the police but children are surprisingly loyal , him and his siblings were adamant that their mother never laid a finger on them despite her abuse, as she abused him and enforced propaganda that all men are rapists and women do not willingly partake in six he had trouble with girlfriends and physical relationships, he was still living in his mother's house at the age of 18 and his mother mustn't have wanted him there because she framed him to have sodomised his 3 or 4 year old sister, he was prosecuted but eventually found justice, there is little to be done except watch from afar but attempt to intervene if given the correct opportunity, be careful though, as you put yourself at risk by getting involved. That is all I can provide as advice, oh and to summise the ending of that story all those siblings are living happily and are on great terms with eachother i think they are currently prosecuting his mother, his father separated from his mother ling before the sodomizing and the mother had remarried , so things generally get better and work themself out. That was weirdly structured but I think you catch my drift

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Not sure this is the place to ask, but really I would call someone to put this straight. But at the same time being taken away from your parents. Mixed feelings all around.......

We can't say becuase we don't have the description or detail to confirm with your side really.

Orphanage? is it 1832?



Call the police or social services. Not sure how it works in America, but leave it to the professionals. I study this sort of thing, and thats the advice my professor gave us.


I'm sure Peter Conolly's neighbours thought that too.

Pour glue all over yourself, roll around in some foliage, then set up shop in a tree with binoculars and a camera. Then take pictures and/or video and send it to major networks.. before sending it to child protective services or equivalent.

I'm thinking the authorities. I don't know that I could live with myself if I could hear that [censored] and did nothing. What do you do right now? Turn up the tv when the kid starts screaming?

Police or social services. They're the only people who can help, and they're the best option for the child.

Can I add something to this discussion, say if this kid was like a Damien, I mean pure "evil"(evil in air-quotes) Would this be justifiable? Discuss
I mean the likliehood is crazy small but let's just acknowledge that option hypothetically and rule it out yeah?

Personally, I would beat the living [censored] out of the parent. I lived through that, no one else should have to.

You on the othe hand should call the proper authorities

It depends, is the source of negative impact from the beatings of the parents, or do the parents beat him to make him behave? But both cases would probably just lead to a cycle of repeating hatred.


Some kids just need to be told their mistakes, some kids need to be yelled at, some kids just need a back hand to the side of the head.

i see 3 viable options...
1) do nothing (because child abuse is nothing to worry about right?)
2) kidnap the kid (you should already know the consequences to that)
3) call the authorities


spankings maybe... but if your hitting a child hard enough to bruise them then it's clearly crossing the line of what is necessary

Call social services or the cops. Cops if you're worried something bad is happening at the exact moment, (a domestic disturbance) social services just to report the possible abuse.

Call the police---that's what they're there for...Well---sometimes.

I honestly hope you are joking if not then thats just [censored] up.

Call the authorities preferably when the abuse can be heard. Tell them to not use sierens or lights in hope to catch the parents in the act.

Seriously OP do you really have to think twice about calling the authorities? Being in a orphanage or foster home is infinitely better than him becoming a completely dysfunctional advlt and losing hope in humanity because his neighbour didn't think that he would do better in a home were he's not getting the holy hell beat out of him everyday.


It would be a really crappy world if everybody thought like you...

call CPS.

Call the authorities like majority have said

I'd rather have the kid be alive and living in an orphanage (more stable living and environment) than to continue to be with his parents and eventually be gone from the world.

I would leave a formal note under their door asking for the neighbours to do less noise at night (although knowing that it might be domestic violence involved). If it continues, call the authorities (it′s best for all sides)

dont do this

I was smacked around too when I was younger. If i were you; I'd call the authorities because it seems; he is beaten on a regular basis.