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Sometimes it's just stupid
Why get yourself all worked up about an accusation. Maybe the accuser was just stupid. I had a moral dilemma in the middle of the night when I was 11. The neighbors' new baby was wailing again. Surely crying in the middle of the night, every night wasn't normal.
And there'd been recent articles in the paper about how class and money didn't affect abuse. Even nice, middle class families like my neighbors could be abusers.
My parents were asleep and I didn't want to wake them. I almost called the police on those awful abusers whose newborn cried at 4 am EVERY night. I was earnest, well-meaning and COMPLETELY clueless.