Abby Connolly
With no warning, her sister-in-law’s husband smacked her son and yelled, “No running in the house!”
Unsure what to do in the moment, she panicked and called the police after seeing her son getting smacked. Her husband rushed over from work and backed her up.
She and her husband wanted to see charges pressed against her sister-in-law’s husband, but that didn’t happen.
However, the incident did show up on her sister-in-law and her husband’s background checks.
Months passed, and her husband’s side of the family was split. Many relatives sided with her and her husband.
They refused to speak to her sister-in-law and her husband, drastically changing the family dynamic, as her sister-in-law usually hosts all their family functions.
“They basically told her that since she stood by her husband and defended her husband on this, they wanted nothing to do with her,” she said.
“[She was] guilty by association. We also went no contact with her and her husband. Given the police report and it being on my sister-in-law and her husband’s background reports while the investigation and court hearings were open, they were both fired from their jobs.”
This was a huge turn of events, as her sister-in-law lost her job as a case worker, and her husband lost his job as an assistant principal.
Her sister-in-law was forced to work a cruddy retail job, and her husband claimed to be “too depressed” to find work.
Since her sister-in-law’s life has taken such a drastic turn, many of her husband’s relatives are encouraging her and her husband to forgive her and move on from the incident.
