My question involves child abuse or neglect in the State of: Colorado
I am a babysitter and I received a subpoena to testify because the father of the family I babysit for is being accused by his ex-wife of child abuse. I babysat for them a handful of times and never suspected that the kids were in any danger, never witnessed any abuse or bruises.
However, there was one comment made in a sarcastic manner, when I asked how they discipline their children, they said they “yell and beat them” then quickly said “no just kidding we use time out and logical consequences for their actions”.
Also, the last few times I babysat for them the oldest daughter would have anger outbursts where I started to become concerned and would have to hold her arms back so she would not hit her brother and sister. I asked her if her parents hit her at this point (because I figured she must have learned this behavior somewhere) and she said yes they do. She did not specify if it was her mom or dad, if it was a spanking or something with more force and dropped the subject.
The kids are also compulsive liars and will blatantly lie to get what they want, making it difficult to gauge the truth of that statement.
Do I need to worry about being accused as a professional who failed to report?
And my last question is: is it possible to get immunity from the DA to testify? I am somewhat concerned about self-incrimination (if as a babysitter in CO you feel I could be charged with failure to report) and yet I want to say as much as I can to help the case.
I appreciate your help!

