If you suspect a man is beating his wife what do you do?
Friday night a group of friends went out, mostly in couples. One couple starting having an arguement. He slapped her (we will call her Jess to make it easier to read). Myself and a friend witnessed it as we were trying to break it up at the time.
I was sat down with Jess afterwards, she was obviously very upset. Her mother in law was also out with us. She came over (i thought to try and help the situation, but i was wrong) Jess turned to her mil and said "do you not agree that he abuses me" her mil agreed!
Jess was very drunk that night so I cant piece all the bits together but ive now got it in my mind that he hits both Jess and her eldest daughter who is 14. Their daughter has told people before that he hits both of them but everyone assumed it was her acting out as she is abit of a handful.
Both me and another friend have tried to get Jess on her own but her hubby is now stuck to her like glue. All of our hubbys work together about 5 mins from our houses. So I managed to get her on her own yesterday and literally 2 mins later he comes around! She changed dramatically when he walked around the corner but apart from that they are putting a normal front on things.
Now my other friend really wants me and her hubby to make a statement to the police about us witnessing him hitting Jess but she hasnt asked us to do this and im worried that it will cause more problems. Obviously if she gave me the nod then id be all over it.
I feel so useless because I cant seem to do anything to help, I cant even be there for her to talk to me about it without him around!