Domestic Abuse Up Close: Man Beats Wife --horrific video of abuse

[Lone_Star_Dem]

This is from a Diane Sawyer interview with an abused woman whose son was forced by the abusive father to tape his mothers abuse.

It has a happy ending in that the abuse victim does survive and the abuser is sent to jail.

Many don't have such an ending.


Diane Sawyer interviews an abused woman and shows video of her battering filmed by her son.

http://www.alternet.org/story/63226/

[Faygo Kid]

1. I saw that in the late 1950s. In my own house. With my younger brother.

Dad would come home drunk and beat the hell out of my mother, while my younger brother and I watched in horror (we were two years apart; picture us about 7 and 5, footie pajamas, 1958, cowering behind the couch). The neighbors would call the cops, and they would come haul Dad away. Mom got rid of him in 1960 through a restraining order, then uncontested divorce. Never a dime of child support, of course. I did not see him again until 1974 (one visit. Six months later, I got a call to see him one last time, to ID him in the morgue). I can't watch this stuff to this day, and God help anyone lifting a finger against a woman in front of me (sexist? Reflexive).

God damn these cowards. Real men need to speak up at every turn to put a stop to this outrage. Not much said about it these days, but I suspect it is as prevalent now as in every other generation.

You don't forget. Mom died peacefully in 2003, a great woman and a great heart to the end. I like all of us here move on in life from tragedy, but there has always been a little voice of guilt that I could not stop my father in the 1950s, and could only hide behind a couch while Mom protected us. Believe me, it's not a conscious thing, but it lingers there somewhere in the shadows. I don't like being bullied. Maybe that's part of the reason I respond so forcefully to the caving in by 22 Dems to the MoveOn.org condemnation.

Ten cent psychology, but I don't like bullies, and I won't let 'em slap us around.

[originalpckelly]

2. Absolutely shocking.

How one person could do that to another. Absolutely terrifying.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. rerun.. saw that episode. It was pretty shocking.