This Man’s Story Of Witnessing The Assault Of His 2-Year-Old Is True Evil Staring You In The Eye

There is nothing in the world as painful as the helplessness of a moment when you can’t protect the people you love the most. That agony just doesn’t heal with time. Instead, it turns into regret that seeps into your life, forever.

And then the question, ‘what if…. I had done that or done this’, haunts you for eternity.

In a Quora thread where people described the moment in their lives when they witnessed true evil, we stumbled upon an answer that was anonymously written and made our skin crawl. A father describes how he witnessed the assault of his 2-year-old son in a train and why he couldn’t help him.

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I’ve gone anonymous on this one to protect the future of my son and keep his life private.

I live in Tokyo Japan with my wife and 4-year-old son. We have lived here since he was born.

During our time in Tokyo, I have seen many things that make me realize what a dangerous place the world is, but there is only once that I ever saw something “Evil”.

My son was 2 years old when this happened.

We got on a relatively crowded train one day. Only going a few stops.

My son was in a very friendly stage where he would say hello to anyone who looked at him.

We were standing by the door with my son holding my hand as the train pulled into the next station.
2 business men in suits got on the train talking about a meeting they had just gotten out of. they were rather tall and caught my sons eye. He looked up with a big smile on his face and watched them as they spoke.

It would seem that being watched by the 2 year old bothered one of the men and after a minute he looked down at my son.

“Konnichiwa!” (good afternoon/hello), my son said to the man with a smile on his face.

—-The events that happened next happened so quickly that it all felt like a single moment——-

The man, without skipping a beat, kicked my 2-year-old right in the chest with a kick that forced my sons hand out of my own and knocked him against the door.
His co-worker did, and said nothing.
Completely unaware of what had just happened, and as pure as any 2-year-old child would be, my son got up, grabbed my hand, looked at the man again, and tried to smile.

It was at this moment that I tried to pick up my son and get away from the man, but before I could do this, the man moved in and kicked my son again with even greater force.
The trains door had just opened for the next stop. There was a gap between the train and the platform. My sons leg fell in. He started to scream and panic. Someone pushed the emergency button. People started to scramble to get away from the scene.

And then I witnessed true evil;

Both the man and his co-worker were laughing hysterically at the toddler stuck between the train and platform.

With the help of a few strangers, my wife and I managed to get our son up and out to safety. My wife picked him up and ran for the station office to get staff or police to help.

Holding back more rage than any one person should ever have to feel in their life, and honestly in shock about what had just happened, I got off the train and followed my wife and son.

We filed a police report.

The man was never found, and never had to face up to what he had done.

In the months and years since this has happened I still cant believe that nobody stepped in to help. But at the same time, I can’t believe that I didn’t do anything to this man.

In all fairness a large part of me knew that in this case, if I started, I wouldn’t have stopped, and my son may have been without a father for quite some time.

The powerlessness of the moment, and the laughter of both the men still stick with me to this day. The experience changed all of us and our view of the world we live in.

 

Doesn’t that leave you feeling uneasy? How does brutally beating a 2-year-old and laughing because he is suffering, a sign that, those two were humans? It just kills me inside to think that we live in a society where such scary monsters walk among us, untamed and unharmed.

Source: Quora

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