Reply #47: As a child victim of abuse...

[Misunderestimator]

I wish some neighbor had called the cops while my father was beating me. When I was a child, I never wished him to be taken away, so I never did anything myself... as an adult, I know that he should have been taken away. How much agony that could have saved my entire family. But I'm sure my neighbors didn't want my dad to know that they had called the cops. We also lived in a rural area, so it would have been only possibly two neighbors that could have heard the screaming.

In your place, I would call the cops. It's the right thing to do.