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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Boss" data-source="post: 2580554" data-attributes="member: 1247">This is an extremely touchy subject, so if I offend anyone reading past this point, please forgive me, I am extremely upset at the moment and am not intentionally attempting to offend...I have a very good friend of mine that is a recently divorced mother with a 7 or 8 year-old daughter (can't remember which right now).  Her ex-husband is a slime-ball that spent two years finding ways to put off the expense of the divorce and then rushed it at the end because he suddenly wanted to marry someone else.  He has always been a lazy father, more interested in yelling at his daughter than actually showing real interest in her.This past Monday, my friend's daughter came home from her father's house and went to take a bath.  My friend saw something on her daughter's backside when she was getting the bath ready and found several large black and red marks and bruise in the shape of a thumb at the top of her backside.  Needless to say, my friend lost it.  Her daughter told her she was "spanked" because she wouldn't wash her face before she went to school.  My friend called her ex, and after having a difficult time getting to him because the new wife would not let them talk, he finally told her that he didn't spank her too hard because she had lots of padding on...My friend called her lawyer and police, and took several photos, but the police said that it wasn't really a case of child abuse (they didn't look at the bruises, only asked questions).I am furious right now (actually typing this has calmed me a little) and want to find him and show him literally what abuse is.  Several of our other friends feel the same way as I do.  I have no problem with spanking as a form of discipline, heck, I grew up practically over my parents knees, but to leave marks that are still showing and black and red after 12 hours is too much.  I can not believe the police didn't look into it further and I do not even care to guess what was going through the father's mind when he beat her.I want to do something.  This is a very good friend of mine, and while we aren't in a intimate relationship, I still care about the mother and daughter a great deal, they are practically family in my mind.  My first instinct is to hunt him down and explain the error of his ways to him in a very extreme manner.  Our friends have also said the same thing, ranging from physical violence to making his life miserable.  I don't know what I can do, I just know what I want to do.  But, I don't think it would do anything but make me feel better to do it.What would you do in this situation?</blockquote>

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