I babysat for our next door neighbor in our apartment block ( I was about 16 yrs old then).
One quiet evening a knock at the door and as my mother opened it to the husband crying
hysterically, while carrying his two year old bleeding child run through our apartment as my
father woke up from his nap and approached him calmly.
Dad took him back to his apartment as we called for the ambulance.( no 911 then).
Apparently he and his wife had a violent argument in front of the two year old.
As the wife tried to call the Police on the phone the husband pulled it out of the wall and
threw it “just as” the two yer old ran in front of his mother and thus bore the brunt of the blow , causing severe damage.
After about a week later the wife was found strangled when my brother cumming home late
in the wee hours noticed that the apartment door was left wide opened and found her , but
thank GOD he untied the towel/scarf and she started to breathe again.
Soon she moved away.( I hope that she lived a good life after that?)
Don’t know what happened to the child nor the husband..hushed up?
By the way even at my young age I recognized the husband as a man with uncontrollable
temper and knew that one day that the wife would suffer from his anger.
I remember him as always putting her down,not really a loving husband at all.
They also had a six week old baby in the other bedroom.
That experience and others had taught me that behind a smiling happy face is sometimes
hidden anger/violence, that could erupt under stressful situations.