I'm not sure if this is the type of answer you're looking for, but: When I was ~8 my mom left my older sister (12) to babysit me. My sister had rage issues, was really violent and pretty sadistic (She whipped our 3 year old brother with a rubber rat tail to leave welts, telling him, "Come on, be a man!" and then would laugh hysterically). As soon as my mom left I just wanted to be left alone until she got back but my sister kept trying to pick an argument with me so I would fight her (and report to mom that I was being bad) When I told her to leave me alone she started beating the shit out of me. Somehow I managed to get away and ran out the front door in the middle of the night, and just kept running. Didn't know where I was going but I just wanted to get away and find my mom. I was halfway down our street before I realized I didn't have any shoes on and I probably wasn't going to get far without them. I tried sneaking back into the house to get them and then leave again, but my sister caught me. At the time I remember being super upset I didn't have shoes on, because she didn't chase after me and didn't even realize I left the house until she saw me come back in, so I could have gotten away. As an adult thinking back to it I wonder how far I would have gotten before someone found this little kid wandering the streets in the middle of the night??