I am not generally the type of person to pick a fight or get into other people's business, but today I almost had my first fistfight! The reason...a mother was going to leave her 8 year-old child on the front porch of the apartment complex that I live in at 10:00 at night. Mind you that I live in Lorain, Ohio a place not known for its low crime rate to say the least, plus I live in the somewhat "ghetto" part of town. My part in this is that her fiance is the best friend of my boyfriend. I have seen how this "woman" treats her child. It's deplorable. She berates the poor thing all the time. The poor child doesn't even know who her father is because her mother won't tell her, and it's not to protect her it's because this woman is so nuts in the head that the childs father left her because of it. Anyways, the fiance was visiting another friend of ours in the apartment building and the woman...well call her crazy bitch....came over because she wanted him to come home and babysit so she could leave the house. Being that he wasn't ready to leave and he watchs the girl all the time, he said no and told her to leave. I heard her screaming and telling her daughter to sit on the porch. I went outside to see what was up and when I saw that little girl sitting on the porch and her mother getting into the car I lost it. I told the little girl to go to my apartment and her mother told me, "No, she's staying there till he brings his ass downstairs to get her." I tried to reason with her and say that I would keep an eye on her. She refused saying that she wanted to teach him a lesson. I asked her how, by getting your daughter kidnapped or worse? I couldn't believe what this woman was planning on doing! I finally told her she was fucking crazy and I was calling the cops. She comes up to the porch yanks the poor girl up by her arm and drags her to the car and literally throws her in. She peals out and almost hits another car. Part of me wants to stay out of it but another part of me thinks I should call child protection services. I am not a mother but I still know that you don't treat a child like that. It's a child not a pawn in one of the sick little mind games she always seem to play. I would appreciate some feedback on this. I am not sure what I should do.
