Can one report suspected child abuse with just a license plate number?

[bertha katzenengel]

Seen on the way out of Safeway: a woman with four children. Carrying a girl under her arm like a sack of potatoes. Yelling at two boys to come on. Dragging the other girl by the elbow - the girl crying, getting loose any chance she had, so she could hang back. She sat down every time, even in the middle of the parking lot. As I walked by, the woman was dumping the children into the car. The elbow girl got away again and walked behind some other cars. The girl and I were walking parallel. She stopped. I stopped.

I said, "Are you scared of her? Does she scare you, baby?" She nodded. I said, "tell someone, okay? It's okay, baby, tell someone."

It's all I could do. :cry: