I feel like I should give some insight into mandatory reporters, as while I believe that the priest did the right thing I know how many don’t.
When I was involved, as a child, in very similar situations the mandatory reporters who were schoolteachers somehow found a way to use that status to threaten the kids with trouble. Basically, “if what you say is true you might be taken away from mommy because I have to tell the police. Do you really want that?”
Like no, I don’t want to be taken away from mommy I want mommy to get better. So you lie. There’s a lot of people out there who truly don’t care, and just view children in these situations like stray dogs. I believe the priest in this case is a real nigga who did the right thing, but not a lot of people know the other side.
Trust me, every single second of every single part of this is absolutely horrible for the kids. I know I’m alogging, but I would genuinely beat the ever-loving fuck out of Nick and Kayla right now for what those kids are going through. I would break them like dry twigs were it legal and witching my power. Words can’t describe how much I hate people like that because I know first hand what it does to the children.
They will never recover, scars fade but they’re still there in the end.