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Originally Posted by pegasus
Hello, I am concerned that the child/minor/young person is being subject to verbal and emotional abuse and this needs to be addressed. Please contact the child protective services for your area. You can find the number on the government website or you can find it on this website.... childhelp.org hotline
Then the young person can get the help she needs. Always report suspected abuse. Thank you for helping her.
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I've thought about doing this many times, but a few things have stopped me:
1.) She'll be 18 in a few months
2.) While I do believe the parents are abusive/neglectful, There isn't evidence of abuse/neglect. It will be a "he said-she said" situation.
3.) Should the parents know a teacher reported them, I believe they would immediately pull their child out of the school and homeschool her.
4.) I'm also afraid that parents will retailate against their daughter, by making things even more difficult for her.
It seems to be high risk and low reward to report this to the authorities. Both the principal and vice principal have heard her story, and both are skeptical, or at the very least, think she's exaggerating. I fully believe her, but am afraid that the authorities will have a similar reaction, which will end up making things much worse for the child at home. She may be cut off from her only source of "sanity" which is school.