i am a 37 year old man happily married but have had a nightmare to deal with for the past year, I am english and my wife and children Spanish, the children are from my wifes previous relationship, we have two boys aged 4 and 7 years old and a girl aged 10 years old. My wife suffered from physical and mental abuse for 7 years from her previous boyfriend the father of the the two boys, he threatened her continuously, and hit her and half stangled her as well as raping her a few times...and as always said if she told anyone he would kill her and take the boys....like so many women this happens to. Eventually she met me, and even though she had not been with the father for 18 months he continued like an obsession to try ro ruin everything in her life and install fear to control her. Now to sut a long story short we got married and little by little i had more and more confrontations with this man as we let him see the children once for a weekend every two weeks, he started coming to our house when i was working, calling every day at ridiculous hours...and in the end i put my foot down and told my wife this was not a life, it was a nightmare and this had to stop, so we denounced him for agression towards my wife and us...and then things got really bad, we had to move house 4 times as he kept searching for us, he raped my wife when i was working and she pleaded with me not to go to the police as she was so scared and we planeed to move real far away and stop all contact. The 4 year old only remembers me as his father, the 7 year old however used to see his father hit and abuse his mother(my wife), and remembers everything, he too was also threatened by his father. Well one weekend the child returned from his wonderful father and he had blood coming from his backside, he explained his father had punished him and stuck cocktail sticks in him and touched his penis, we immediately called the Police who took the child had him examined and the father spent one night in jail...wow! he was let out as the child was so disturbed the medical team could not examine him properly, we also lodged another denuncia, and the child did as well against his father for this act...ever since the child has been in mental help in a sexual abuse unit, of which they recorded everything including further abuse no one knew about, but the father still continues to search for us, the law is a nightmare and we just want to protect the child. His behaviour is terrible, has no respect for his mother, only me, insults people and talks like a 16 year old, he wets himself when he hears his father may be close...what can we do? i am concerned about the child, the legal system in Spain is a joke, and we have no protection, and i am seriously concerned for the childs mental welfare for the future and my wifes.