Mama and Echoes,
I wish I HAD taken the license number, not that it would have done any good, social services being what it is. But I was too rattled to think! If they had just seen me taking down their license number, though, it would have made more of an impression.
Echoes, you are right, this little girl may have never heard it isn't okay for her to be hit like this. And, I suspect, the mother (or, more likely, grandmother), may have never been confronted with her abusive treatment of children.
One can only hope it made some sort of impression!
Love
Patty