I had a neighbor, well, I just mentioned him in a previous comment, but I had a neighbor that was abusive And a Thief and would break into my house and raid our refrigerator when my parents weren't home And then my parents would invite this kid over for dinner Because you know, he didn't have a good home life or whatever

So, yeah, so my dad was a deputy juvenile probation officer, right, and we had this punk ass kid down the street from a broken family. He didn't have a dad in his life, so my father would invite this kid over for dinner. But this kid abused me to no end. He used to shoot me with a BB gun when I got off the school bus at the end of the day. I'd have to run from tree to tree avoiding getting shot.

I think a lot of times adults don't take kids seriously, but I think it's important that adults listen to kids and don't just think that they're making up some fanciful story, because I know that was my experience that I told my parents about this abusive neighbor and they didn't believe me. They thought I was making this shit up.