Hi guys. I had the weirdest encounter in the Parc. I'm not even sure how to describe it. All I know is that is almost 4 AM But I can't sleep because I keep thinking of it! I was at the Parc with my kids and there was this guy with his daughter there. He started talking to us about his whore of a wife (his words, not mine) who abandoned him and their daughter. That she got pregnant with a guy and ran away with him and left him to raise their daughter who has cerebral palsy. That his wife has 5 kids with 5 men and that she doesn't live with any of the kids. That she gave up 2 for adoption, 2 was taken away by the state for abuse..

When I asked him witch kid is his I realized I know the little girl! Her mom used to bring her to the Parc but she used to act strange. I never saw the girl out of the stroller before today (she is 5), the mom said that she got her leg stuck in the crib and injured her leg and she can't walk, that never made sense to me because I asked what the doctor said and she said that she never took her to one?

I kept feeling that something was off last night abut the father but now feels even more so! The other parents though that father was drunk but he wasn't, he didn't smell of alcohol. He had this huge half healed wounds all over his face, neck and chest. He even had them on his mouth and nose! The little girl had on a pair of winter tights (the kind you put on under a dress) that were about 2 sizes to small and she kept struggling to keep them on and a small t-shirt, Her hair was neat and due to her illness she is limping, (father said cerebral palsy, mother said crib accident? ), she never said a word, she never even smiled, she just kept struggling with her clothes and walked after the other kids just watching them . I kept watching her and her father because something felt really off. I still can put my finger on what exactly. He was ignoring her completely, kept talking about her mother in her hearing, even going so far as saying that the mom nicknamed her "little cunt".

He lied about his job (he said that he is janitor (at my daughter's ex school) that he is working there for many years but I know the janitor and it's not him! My daughter never saw him before (she went to that school for 5 years ). The are living in the same area with us but I never saw him before. I know the little girl but not him. Her mom never mentioned having other children, I never saw her with other children?

If the state took away the kids for abuse how come they left her? Somebody obviously is lying about what is wrong with her but I don't understand why?

I don't know what to think. Something was really off about his behavior. After a while he kept walking around the playground giving the kids candies and trying to talk to them but why not talk to his own daughter? I tried talking to the little girl but she seems terrified of me?

As much as I try I can't let go. I can't seem to stop thinking of her. I go to the park everyday with my kids and I see this little girl there maybe 2 times a year even though she lives wright beside the Parc. Something is off with her father behaviour but also the mother's. The little girl seems very pale, scared and sick. Tbh I can't even seem to find the word to describe her. The parents around me were a bit shaken too. One mom even said how can somebody leave her child with this drunkard? But he didn't seem drunk and didn't smell of alcohol either but something was really off about him. His way of talking, the things he was saying how he was moving, how he was behaving everything was just off.

How do you know if a child is abused? What are the signs to look for? I keep telling myself that maybe I was wrong and there was nothing wrong with the little girl's behavior. That maybe it just seems so due to her limping but I can't go to sleep obsessing over it!