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Helping parents suffering at the hands of children
Last year, West Midlands Police dealt with more than 17,000 domestic abuse related crimes.
Among those who turned to the force’s specialist Public Protection Unit for help breaking free from behind-closed-doors abuse was a woman who’d been assaulted – kicked, punched, throttled and spat at – on an almost daily basis.
It was an awful catalogue of abuse stretching back several years. And even more shocking when she disclosed the offender was not a violent partner… but her 12-year-old daughter.
Child-on-parent abuse was thrust into the spotlight this summer courtesy of a Coronation Street storyline in which Leanne Battersby suffered at the hands of her 12-year-old stepson Simon.
What started with sullen stares quickly escalated to unruly behaviour, verbal abuse and, ultimately, physical assaults … and left Leanne toying over how to deal with the tearaway and whether to call in outside help.
But such episodes aren’t the preserve of so...
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