Spousal Abuse

So now there is woman and her four kids that will be occupying what little space exists in my small three bedroom apartment currently occupied by myself, my fiancée, and our two kids...

My friend entered into a relationship two years ago. Everyone was happy at first, but that soon changed. He cared very little for her three girls and enjoyed drugs and drinking far too much. Being that she had little self esteem and he is a good looking guy who payed attention to her, she made the mistake that far too many people do... namely she thought that he would change.

He did begin to change. He became controlling and lightly abusive. Soon he changed a little more an became more abusive. Then he convinced her that it was all her fault and that she needed to try "sharing" the things he enjoyed. Fortunately she didn't do drugs for long before realising that the situation was quickly becoming untenable.

At this point he did what most abusive and controlling people do when control is waning. He apologised and promised to change. Everything will be different, he promised.One night he moved her belongings out of her apartment and into a trailer on his parents property. He began convincing her, through his family members, that her friends were the ones causing trouble. We lost contact for a while.

Recently we began speaking again and the situation has deteriorated further. We had still had contact with her sporadically. When he tossed her against the trailer wall, she called. When he hit her, she called. When she tried to leave and get help from social services and abuse organisations, she called. Each of these times we tried to help, and each time he emotionally blackmailed her back. His parents also did this, by threatening to throw away every thing she owned and promising to make sure she was painted as the person at fault.

Each time the cops were called they did nothing along the lines of investigation, though they once asked the parents if the allegation were true. Each time the abusive twat got away with not so much as a warning. One cop intimated that she was hurting the child that she had with him by making these complaints.

Last night he, his foster sister, her boyfriend, and others were at a party in another town. His tires were slashed on his car, which he had left in this town. He immediately called the cops when he found out, which was around noon after the booze and drugs wore off and he came home. He immediately called the cops and reported that she had done it and he had witnesses. The witnesses are his foster sister and her boyfriend, both of whom were drunk and stoned with him all night.

Now the real kicker:
The cops decided that the allegation of slashed tires, witnessed by people who were in a different town, constituted FELONY spousal abuse. Yes she was charged with a felony.

So now I have a family of five living with my family of four in a three bedroom apartment. All because the cops here think that hitting a woman, and verbally and physically abusing kids, is not worth investigating but a woman that is accused of slashing a tire is a criminal worth throwing the book at.