Women who stay married to abusive men as my mother did are just as bad IMHO. I had to leave home in my teens to escape his beatings. My brother & I would try to stop him from beating her from the time we were children. We would get him to hit us instead. When I was able to give her a home to live in she stayed with my dad. I have no idea why. I wish I did, & I think for the rest of my life I am going to wonder over that. She knew darn well when he was beating us but she decided to drink. I went though many years of pain & total shock that she didn’t leave. I was lucky enough to have gotten over most of it. My brother never really did & died through drug abuse.
Then why did you and your brother not report this to the police?
That is horrible, and no children should be forced to live in that type of environment.