One of my close friends talks to me about how her father punishes her and she is not sure if it is considered child abuse. Help?
Shes said that once her and her mother got in a fight and that she had a bit of an attitude so she marched upstairs and screamed on her way up. Her father got really mad at her and ran up the stairs after her. She ran into a bedroom and hid behind a dresser from him bc this was not the first time he scared her. He found her shortly. She huddled into a ball to try to cover her head but he grabbed her by the hair and picked her up and sorta shoved her onto the bed where he got really close to her face with his teeth gritted and she didnt know if it was a bunch or what but she felt a blow to her shoulder her mom finally came up after like 2 minutes bc she was screaming and hermom yelled tostop. She said she has been hit with a belt multiple times on different occasions thatleft red linemarks