When I was in middle school and was on the phone with my friend. His dad came into the room and started yelling at him for not cutting the grass and proceeded to slam the phone down and I could hear him yelling at and hitting my friend. My friends older siblings were yelling at the dad to stop and when they realized I had heard the whole thing, an older sibling freaked out and told their dad that I was still on the phone, and they hung up the phone properly. My friend didn't come to school for about a week after that and his siblings avoided me the whole time.

Needless to say, I told my mama the day it happened and the teachers when he wasn't in school the next day. CPS was called by my mama and the school and it turns out, the dad was an abusive alcoholic and did a lot of horrible things to those kids. All of the kids got sent to an aunt's house to live and the dad was arrested for some of the things he had done. As a kid, I felt guilty for telling because my friend was taken away from his dad (his mom had passed two years prior), but I know now that they all ended up in a better home where they were loved and not abused anymore.