Momma, Don't Hit Me!: A True Story of Child Abuse (Shannon's NH Diaries Book 1)

What would you do if you could hear a child being hurt in the room beside yours, night after night, while months passed before anyone could protect them? This memoir is a diary kept by a neighbor in New Hampshire across 2011 and 2012, though the people in it have been given different names. The writer found that calling the police and state agencies did not solve things, because the laws and an overloaded system left them little room to act. Those who could help were limited to offering support to the family and voicing frustration to officials and relatives. The entries follow the long stretch of waiting until one parent finally forced a change.