{"id":72374,"date":"2015-08-27T13:10:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=72374"},"modified":"2020-02-08T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:36:11","slug":"my-neighbor-is-abusing-his-child-but-its-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/my-neighbor-is-abusing-his-child-but-its-okay\/","title":{"rendered":"My neighbor is abusing his child, but it\u2019s okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/my-neighbor-is-abusing-his-child-but-its-okay-though-heres-why\/\">Students for Life\/R.J. McVeigh<\/a>)\u00a0You can imagine my shock.\u00a0About a month ago, a saw a post on social media from a friend in my neighborhood, Laura, claiming that the father in the house three\u00a0houses down from me, Marcus, is brutally beating his four-year-old son in rage.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I didn\u2019t believe it. Laura has always hated Marcus for no good reason and has been out to get him any way she can. But then, she claimed she had an audio recordings proving Marcus is beating his son. Suddenly, all sorts of people on social media started sharing her posts, and the story even made it on local news. It became a local frenzy, and I couldn\u2019t go five\u00a0minutes on Facebook without seeing something about it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI haven\u2019t actually listened to the recordings. Because I don\u2019t want to dignify the propaganda with my attention, especially if it is from such a biased source. And because I know Marcus \u2013 he\u2019s a friend and I trust him. But eventually, Marcus responded to the accusations; and I was shocked again when he admitted the recordings were true! I couldn\u2019t believe it! But then he explained further, and I began to feel a lot better&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He said he isn\u2019t beating his son out of rage \u2013 he\u2019s beating his son out of love and care. Because, you see, Marcus is a physical therapist. He helps people heal and rehabilitate when they are injured. When he injures his son, he studies the way his body heals itself back together. He takes notes of the way the blood in his bruises clots. He tests the motion and orientation of the bones as they fuse back together. He does this all so he can be a better physical therapist to his other patients. He explained that he\u2019s even made some huge breakthroughs for physical therapy as a result of his studies.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus\u2019 explanation made me feel a lot better. I was so happy to hear about this great, healing work he was doing. And it turns out that I was right to have been skeptical of the source of these recordings. Marcus explained that the audio recordings of him beating his son had been altered by adjusting the volume at particular points to make it sound worse. He said it doesn\u2019t sound like rage when the volume is lower \u2013 and that makes a lot of sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>The Marcus haters kept at it, though. Even though they started producing more and more recordings of Marcus, I started to tune them out. They were just trying to use the recordings as a political stunt to pass stricter laws against child abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The real outrage about the whole situation is Laura\u2019s dishonesty. Secretly recording a physical therapist who just wants to help people is outrageous and deceiving. Nothing can justify that.<\/p>\n<p>Look \u2013 I don\u2019t like child abuse. But the truth is, child abuse is going to happen. It has been proven that laws against child abuse do not stop it from happening. Child abuse still happens every day in every country of the world. Since it is going to happen whether we want it to or not, it might as well be done by those like Marcus who can use it for research to help people heal. This research is key to unlocking life-saving methods of rehabilitation that physical therapists around the world can use. Marcus is a hero, and he is there for people in need.<\/p>\n<p>The good of the research outweighs the bad done to Marcus\u2019 son, Emmett. After all, he\u2019s just another boy.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I #StandWithMarcus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Except that\u2019s not true. I don\u2019t #StandWithMarcus. Marcus is made-up and doesn\u2019t exist. But if he did, I would think his actions are despicable, and I would do everything in my power to stop him. Would you #StandWithMarcus?<\/p>\n<p>Would it change anything if Marcus is named Planned Parenthood?<\/p>\n<p>Would you #StandWithPP?<\/p>\n<p><em>(R.J. McVeigh is Great Lakes Regional Director\u00a0and SFLA Apologetics Director. This article originally appeared at <a href=\"http:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/my-neighbor-is-abusing-his-child-but-its-okay-though-heres-why\/\">studentsforlife.org<\/a> and is reprinted here\u00a0with permission.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Students for Life\/R.J. McVeigh)\u00a0You can imagine my shock.\u00a0About a month ago, a saw a post on social media from a friend in my neighborhood, Laura, claiming that the father in the house three\u00a0houses down from me, Marcus, is brutally beating his four-year-old son in rage. At first, I didn\u2019t believe it. 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