Failing Precious.

Who Failed Precious?

It is easy to say that everyone failed Precious.

1)      Her mother. She developed jealousy and envied Precious because her “man” Precious’s father was giving her more sexual attention than the mother which she took that sexual acts as love and affection something that she was receiving lack of. As sick as that is the mother despised Precious for something that wasn’t controllable.  Precious wasn’t able to control the way her father abused her, her mother COULD have changed the situation by realizing the sickness of his acts instead of seeing it as another women from the streets stealing her man.

2)      Her grandmother. Precious’s grandmother was aware of the sexual and violent abuse that was occurring in the house hold but she failed to take Precious out of there because she was afraid of the mother and the father, she just didn’t want to be involved in the situation maybe because she has dealt with too much in her lifetime.

3)      The community as a whole were aware of the abuse that was happening it was like the bystander affect. The people in the apartment heard the fighting and one neighbor even made a commit saying, “We know she didn’t take your man” but didn’t report it to authorities of the sexual abuse from her father. The EMT failed her because when she wrote down the name of the father the nurse didn’t account that this is possible the second time her pregnancy was from her father again.