I get that, but you rarely see the abuser keep evidence no?No kidding, that would be the 'sick bastard' part where he believes his own B.S. stories. My understanding of abusers is they actually don't believe they aren't doing anything wrong. The cover stories would not be about their shame per say but about satisfying the prying inquisitions of others who just don't "get it". The guy who's wife 'walks into a door' for example, to his (sick) mind he's justified in what he did but he knows no one else will "understand" that he had "no choice", so stories are made up to avoid having to deal with that. At least, that's the way I understand the thought process, if you can actually call it that.
I've known abusive parents. I know abusive parents. I see the results every other Thursday.
What I've never noticed, was self collected evidence.
He may have fallen on the child."Fell down the stairs" seems to always be the fall back excuse.... If the kid was that injured from falling down the stairs, wouldn't the boyfriend also have a few injuries as well?
If it wasn't for the extremely noticeable curve in our youngest boys arm, you wouldn't have been able to tell from his demeanor that it was broken.But the nail in the coffin is the list of long term injuries noted, especially many untreated injuries.... And parent with a brain would take their child to the hospital for such injuries so they would be treated.
Even the hospital staff were amazed at how calm and oblivious to his injury he was.
Possibly. But I know grown men that seem to have a fresh injury some shape or form every week.And no two year old that I ever come across runs into that many unfortunate "accidents" and if they did and those accidents were as serious as stated in this report, then if it's not abuse, it's clear neglect and not keeping a better eye out for your damn kids.