Abusive Relationship

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So I volunteer helping out with RCIA and one of the candidates is in an unhealthy relationship. She used to go to my college and I knew her a little bit. From what I've been told from students that knew her better than I did (these are reliable sources by the way) that her boyfriend was physically abusive to her. She got pregnant last year and last october gave birth to a healthy baby boy. She's been living with this same boyfriend for some time now. Her boyfriend is catholic and she showed an interest in becoming catholic so she is in the RCIA class and will enter the church. I haven't heard any engagement announcement about them but it seems as if someday they will get married. I don't have any proof of the abuse so I can't just go to Fr. with hearsay about it when they go through marriage preparation. He hasn't appeared to have hit her for months but theat may have been because he didn't want to hurt the child within her womb or to scare the baby after it was born. That doesn't mean that the abuse is over though.

Even if they were to break up it would still be hard on her raising a child without a father and she just has an associates degree which doesn't get you far. Not only that but she came to my school as an international student from Bulgaria so her family is far away from her and I'm not sure if they've disowned her or what.