Last night, around 9.30pm, DP came in from work and said he could hear someone screaming in the street. He went back out to investigate and found a girl, only 15yrs old, who had just been punched in the side by her 16yr old boyfriend. The boy ran off.
DP brought her in the house to talk to me. She was obviously upset. She told me she wasn't supposed to be seeing him and she wasn't supposed to be out tonight. She wasn't very well and because she had text him that she couldn't come out earlier that day, when she did finally agree to meet him, he started on her. When she went to walk away he attacked her. She said he normally punches her in the face but this time he punched her in the side because she had told him she had been unwell and had pains there.
I told her she didn't have to put up with it. That we could phone the police if she wanted us to and that they would protect her. I told her that she deserved better and that relationships should be about love not fear. She just seemed so accepting of it. She said if she left him and then bumped into him he would kill her, she actually said he would stamp on her head!
The girl, I'll call her S, told me her boyfriend always smoked weed and that his mum had died when he was 12 and that he was also violent to his own family. I tried to explain, kindly, that there was never any excuses for violence. It was wrong, full stop. X was stoned too.
I drove her home and told her about Women's Aid.
I watched her go into the house, her mum or dad answered the door and didn't even look to see who had dropped her off, which I thought a bit strange.
Also thought it worrying that she was so trusting of DP that she followed him into our home. We could have been anyone.
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