"...The DA had spit coming out of his mouth..."
I'm afraid there's a lot of them like that.
We'll have to figure out something to do with them.
Back when I was married, the stepkids father brought them home from his weekend visitation and we found some unusual bruising on the oldest (she was 7 at the time). There was an adult sized handprint bruise on her upper right arm, and a flat bruise across her bottom. She told us that her stepmother (her dad's wife) had gotten mad, picked her up by the arm, and threw her into the wall.
We took her to the base hospital, where she repeated the story, and the MD determined that the bruising was at least 12 hours but no more than 24 hours old - all corresponding to when she was at their house.
I ended up under military arrest, until the SPs showed up, listened to the timeline, and pointed out, just like I had, that the child had not been at our house at the time.
Vegas Metro got involved, and then their highly efficient (/sarcasm) DHS came and investigated our household..not the abusive household.
Go figure.