Introduction Domestic and family violence occurs when an individual deliberately physically abuses or uses violent or controlling behavior towards a family member to maintain authority and control over him/her or for any other reason. Children, women, and the elderly are the most vulnerable people to family and domestic violence (Gould et al., 2012). This paper highlights some of the recent cases of the violence, the forms of abuse involved, and their overall impacts on the victims. Perpetrators of domestic violence should face legal punishment if proven guilty. Case 1 The first case involves a step-father who is alleged to have brutally beaten his four-year-old son, leaving him with serious bruises. Twenty-eight-year-old Trevor Brown, the step-father to Jonathan Cancel, was arraigned in court to answer the charges leveled against him (Moore, 2017). It was reported that Jonathan was taken to Lincoln Hospital after being picked from their Vyse Avenue home with bruised face, abdomen, back, stomach, mouth, and ears. A report from Presbyterian Medical Center, where at some point the boy was taken for a checkup, indicated that he had serious injuries. The doctors established that the injuries were a result of child abuse and although the boy’s condition was critical, his chances of survival were very high. Trevor, who was on probation after being charged with robbery, had been previously arrested eighteen times after being suspected or found guilty, being on the wrong side of the law. The child abuse arrest linked him to the second-degree assault of his son (Moore, 2017). Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) spokesman said that they were investigating the circumstances that caused the alleged child abuse. Besides, it was reported that Trevor and the boy’s mother had been under the investigation by the agency in the past. The mother had been previously accused of providing insufficient guardianship and medical assistance to Jonathan in 2013 and 2014. Additionally, substantiated complaint indicated that Trevor failed to provided adequate responsibility to a daughter he had sired with another woman in 2009. The form of child abuse involved in this case against Trevor includes physical abuse and neglect. Jonathan’s health assessment report by doctors indicated that he had blood in his mouth and nose and that the liver was damaged (Moore, 2017). Furthermore, other sources reported that the boy had serious bruises prompting him to be taken to the health facility. Trevor, the suspected attacker, is also seen to have neglected the boy since he failed to provide him with adequate safety and health needs because the claims indicated that he physically hurt the kid, but no source showed that he took the boy for medical attention after the incident. The boy’s parents had also been involved in other child neglect charges as they had been previously accused of failing to provide adequate guardianship to their other children (Moore, 2017). Child abuse cases have significant overall effects on the victims’ psychological health. According to Gould et al. (2012), children who have been abused are vulnerable to future emotional and behavioral issues if they are left unattended. These