Annie wrote:
My friend's father is emotionally and physically abusive. He threatens and yells at her and her step-mother and even threatens to kill them, he has no temper according to her. SHe hates him and can't get away, and her step-mother just had a baby that she can't leave. Her biological mother is halfway across the world for work hoping to somehow move her there with her but her dad will never allow it. I want to help her so badly, she has a lot of medical problems and she's too scared to tell her parents about it, but then again there's nothing I can do. I need to help her and her family from him. but I can't and it's killing me. She's been my best friend for 8 years and I only found out about this last year