Child Abuse Stories
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- If you are a minor in need of help, please contact:
- Canada: Kids Helpline: 1-800-668-6868
- Child Help USA: 1-800-4-A-CHILD
- U.S.A. Numbers by State: www.childhelpusa.org
- Covenant House Nineline: 1-800-999-9999
- United Kingdom: ChildLine on 0800 1111
- U.K. ChildLine: www.donthideit.com
- Scotland Hotline: 0800 022 3222
- Australia: Kids Help Line 1800 55 1800
- Australia: Kids Help Line
- Jamaica: Child Abuse Hotline: 2-1-1
- Jamaica's Registry: 1-888-PROTECT (1-888-776-8328)
- Sri Lanka: Child Help Line: 1929
Child Abuse Stories Archived 4th Quarter 2008:
Stories from visitors posted October 1 - November 30, 2008:
Child Abuse Story From Dr. Noria I watched the "dissociation" video tonight, and I found myself crying, since I remembered my child abuse by my mother (verbal and physical), my father ...
Child Abuse Story From Steve1 Abused by Music Teacher: There is hardly a day goes by without my remembering my music teacher, who was a great friend, but who abused me when ...
Child Abuse Story From Ray1 I was an international student from an Asian country. I went to a community college in Washington when I was 16 years old. It was my second year in United ...
Child Abuse Story From Tatiana I have a pretty good life, but most of the time it's rough. My mom yells at me when I don't do anything and she calls me names and sometimes she hits me....
Child Abuse Story From touched2mysoul Part 4 It was Christmas eve...Daddy had left to go to our godmom's house to pick up the gifts...it was late...10 or 11 at night...we were in our bedrooms. I don'...
Child Abuse Story From Alex2 My abuse probably started when I was about 3 or 4, I'm not sure because I was so young, maybe before that. My dad has always been very aggressive towards ...
Child Abuse Story From Rose I was not the one abused, but it was my niece. Here is the story very brief. I grew up with a brother and a sister, and I was the oldest. My mother has ...
Child Abuse Story From Brittany1
I am 15 years old.
And I have dealt with my dad for as long as I can remember.
I don't know if you can count what he has done as abuse.
But it emotionally ...
Child Abuse Story From Nancy4 I have been abused by my mother since I was 4 years old. I am now 13, and thankfully the abuse has stopped for the most part, but my mother and I still ...
Child Abuse Story From NewZealandGal I didn't even think it was abuse growing up. I knew all my friends thought it was wrong. They saw how my father behaved, but no one ever said or did anything ...
Child Abuse Story From Lim I'm sorry, Lim sounds like a silly name, but it was replaced. Even my foster parent calls me Lim! I had another name, but I don't want to say it, for it ...
Child Abuse Story From Aleksandra I have been abused by both of my parents as far back as I can remember. When I was 3, I remember my mother chasing me around the house if I tried to wake ...
Child Abuse Story From Maria1 Adopted and abused: I am adopted and I was badly abused as a child and as a teenager by my adopted mother. When I was born, my biological mother ...
Child Abuse Story From Anonymous30 When I Was Around Eight Years Old, I Witnessed My 3-Year-Old Sister Get Abused. We Were In A Foster Home Mostly All Our Lives. She Wouldn't Stop Crying ...
Child Abuse Story From Kim Ongoing Saga: I am now 56 years old, have had tons of therapy, been on anti-depressants off and on for 25 years. My life has been a road of ups ...
Child Abuse Story From Carmen1 I hate him for what he did to me: I am the middle child of 3 daughters. My father only hit me once; however, day in and day out he would knock ...
Child Abuse Story From Lisa3 Evil mother: I am writing this, as at the moment, it seems to be the only thing on my mind. Funnily enough, writing essays for college always ...
Child Abuse Story From Katie1 Teen child abuse...DFS doesn't believe me: I'm 15 about to turn 16. My parents have custody of me but they shouldn't. Both of my parents abuse ...
Child Abuse Story From Sad The man who tortured and raped me when I was a child is a police officer today. I also witnessed him rape his step-daughter, sexually abuse his step-son ...
Child Abuse Story From Freedom Writer Aw, man. I feel like I'm going to throw up here-in this apartment as I write this. "It's been a hard life," I told my teacher one day, once he started ...
Child Abuse Story From Scott1 Part 3 The effects of witnessing spankings: This submission is in honor of a long lost friend. I am telling a bit of his story and a bit more of mine ...
Child Abuse Story From Anonymous29 Screw it: My parents divorced. My mom abused me. At four she left me at home with my brother, three years older...don't want to talk about it. Beat ...
Child Abuse Story From Jansen Part 2 I'm not ready to go home...my mother says that she and my father really want me to come home because I didn't come for Thanksgiving...I don't want to see ...
Child Abuse Story From Pat The abuse in my home grew deeper and deeper as my paranoid father and highly co-dependent mother grew worse in their respective diseases. I did not like ...
Child Abuse Story From Ariana When I was younger my parents went through a divorce. I was about 2 years old when it happened. My mom started dating a guy. I don't really remember what ...
Child Abuse Story from Louise I am not really sure where to actually start...I have lived with my memories of being physically, sexually and emotionally abused for my whole thirty years....
Child Abuse Story From Canadian Survivor Part 2 I did my first posting on this site last night (see Child abuse story from Canadian Survivor ). I thought I would add a bit more details on the effect ...
Child Abuse Story From Briana As I'm writing this right now I'm 17 years old. I really didn't understand why I felt the way I felt until I had to write a report on child abuse for school....
Child Abuse Story From Canadian Survivor Although I have often told "my story", the people I told it to were never abused in the various ways I was. More importantly, I have never met anyone ...
Child Abuse Story From Jansen My life is perfect as far as material things. My dad bought his only son anything he wanted. Both of my parents are wealthy and respected citizens. For ...
Child Abuse Story From A Broken Soul I know my story isn't that bad and it probably doesn't even belong here, but I have a lot of anger and sadness in me that doesn't go away, and I think ...
Child Abuse Story From Samantha1 I've been in and out of abuse my whole life. When I was little, around four, I watched my mom beat my two brothers. She was heavy on the drugs and she ...
Child Abuse Story From Koran Still in the game today: I can't believe I'm writing this, mostly because, I'll admit, I haven't entirely been out of this "stage" of my life. I'...
Child Abuse Story From Anonymous28 I'm lost: I'm a 21-year-old man who has experienced an array of abuse as a child, which I feel has resulted in my lack of development as a person....
Child Abuse Story From touched2mysoul Part 3 I read the comments and reread what I first posted (see Part 1 and Part 2 of touched2mysoull's story ). I was immediately embarrassed...shamed...I couldn'...
Child Abuse Story From...Me
I was abused by my step-brother from the time I was 6 or so until I was 10, and then again around my freshmen year of high school.
What happened was ...
Child Abuse Story From touched2mysoul Part 2 She was mean...she was degrading...she hurt my feelings...she told people things that weren't true about me and it made me walk in shame...I was a child....
Child Abuse Story From Jennifer2 RAGE: I was emotionally and psychologically abused from a very young age. From as far back as I can remember, my father would take out his rage ...
Child Abuse Story From touched2mysoul I've read and re-read many of the shared stories on this site. I am grateful for this site, as it has given me a place to be able to find others who can ...
Child Abuse Story from JC I really didn't come to terms that I had been abused since I was a child because the reality of it was too much to bear. I think part of me had known that ...
Child Abuse Story From AJ Do you know what it's like to have an abusive father? I'm not only talking about physical abuse, but also mental, spiritual, and emotional abuse. Do you ...
Child Abuse Story From Justine I'm now 17 years old. I've had a pretty hard life, I guess you could say. I've been in and out of foster homes since I was very little. My mother had gone ...
Child Abuse Story From Ramesh Was abused since 3 years old: I am writing this story about my life. I was born in London but was taken back to this Asian country where my parents ...
Child Abuse Story From Alex Part 2 My nickname "Aztec" is what my friends gave me a couple of years ago. They said that I had gone through a lot and so they called me that because I was ...
Child Abuse Story From Alex1 I wish that it wouldn't happen. I wish that I didn't have to come home from school every day and have to go into my room a few hours later to either kick ...
Child Abuse Story From Katiana I was 5 years old. My mother was abused many more years before I was even born. I heard them constantly fight, yelling at each other every night. My father ...
Child Abuse Story From Mark Part 2 I have written elsewhere on this site, my experiences about the physical abuse I suffered from my mother (see Child abuse story from Mark ). There is ...
Child Abuse Story From Young Anonymous I have only just turned 18, and I was sexually abused. The earliest memory I have of it was when I was 6 or 7. I was abused by my step brother, who is ...
Child Abuse Story From Ralph I came from a family of 5 other children. I was the only boy. I was 5 when my mother used a belt on me for the first time. I received 6 swats that time....
Child Abuse Story From Sweetie I'm not sure how to start, to be honest. My life has been a roller coaster of confusion. I was physically, emotionally and verbally abused by my mother ...
Child Abuse Story From Nancy3 Sometimes I wonder if my story is as bad as others. My parents would downplay it and laugh when I reported them. I was beaten with a 'paddle', a wooden ...
Child Abuse Story From Marie Yale, CalTech, Superior, Dad: My ex-husband's abuse was of me (wife) and of our oldest daughter. The abuse was emotional and eventually physical....
Child abuse Story From Jessie I grew up seeing things a girl of such a young age should never really see or experience. But it all still happened anyway. And I never did a thing about ...
Child Abuse Story From Polly Did anyone experience something like this? I am having trouble sleeping tonight, so I thought I would rant a bit about some things that are often ...
Child Abuse Story From Danielle2 I am a 23 year old mother of three beautiful children, yet everyday I have to take medicine just to want to stay alive. It's hard to explain. My mother ...
Child Abuse Story From Jessica8 My story isn't all that shocking in my opinion because of how much I have gone through and how much I hear from other people such as myself. I'm going ...
Child Abuse Story From Sal Sexual Abuse Story From My Closet: Today I want to rid myself of a part of my story that I don't feel brave enough to share anywhere else. I can'...
Child Abuse Story From A Little Mouse I found your site by accident and I thought, finally I can tell someone about the abuse that continues to play through my mind over and over and over, and ...
Child Abuse Story From Sharon2 I grew up hating my mother, longing for the days when my gran or my great aunt would come and take me away; though it be a short while spent with them,...
Child Abuse Story From Ami My evil abuser: My dad started physically abusing me when I was 3 years old and kept doing it until I was 13. If I did something wrong-like break ...
Child Abuse Story From Kristen3 Part 4 I mentioned in my last message that I had not really gone into the willing participant thing (see Part 3 of Kristen3's story ; see also Part 1 and Part ...
Child Abuse Story From Nancie This is my first time ever posting anything like this online; I've only told my first boyfriend in 2002, whom I completely trust. I honestly don't remember ...
Child Abuse Story From Red It all started at age 6. My life was like hell. My mom had married this guy I thought was pretty cool...at the beginning. He looked very intelligent and ...
Child Abuse Story From Krystle My Hell: My mother and my father decided that it was time to divorce when I had just turned 4. My memories up until this point are very foggy as ...
Child Abuse Story From Jessica7 It started when I was around the age of 4. My older sister had already become sexually active, and almost every night for about 2 years she would use me ...
Child Abuse Story From Tiffany He's not my Daddy, he's my Real Father: When I was very young, I don't know how old, my real father left me, my mother, and my brother to join ...
Child Abuse Story From Trin All I want is a hug: I have just turned 28. Some days I hurt, and today is one of them. I don't really know what to say. I guess I should start ...
Child Abuse Story From Sharon1 After 27 years of only telling people closest to me I can trust, I have just telephoned the police and told them that I was abused at the age of 5 years ...
Child Abuse Story From Sam'Lee Nobody cares except me: I am 16 years old. My child abuse began when I first came to America. I was born in the Philippines where apparently they ...
Child Abuse Story From Beverly I am from a large family of 8. I'm the youngest. I've been told by my older siblings I didn't know what abuse was. They had been so badly abused before ...
Child Abuse Story From Debra Z One Story of Many Days of Child Abuse: I was abused from my mother. I remember a time when I was 4 or 5 and got paint all over myself. My mom stripped ...
Child Abuse Story From Rebecca P Part 2 I have been reading some other stories people have written to you and it has helped me, so I thought I would write more about my story (see Child abuse ...
Child Abuse Story From Bell Trying to help, but got abused as well: This story is not so much about myself, but about my step-cousin, who I had felt so sorry for when we were ...
Child Abuse Story From Kristen3 Part 3 I want to write about so many things (see Part 1 and Part 2 of Kristen3's story ). I saw a posting from Vicki2 about how she was a willing participant,...
Abuse Story From Kristen3 Part 2 I was writing about rules (see Part 1 of Kristen's story ). There were a lot of rules. There was a lot of punishment. To me rules and punishment were ...
Child Abuse Story From Lilly1
I'm pretty confused...
Where does child abuse start...
When is it normal, when is it abuse...
There are so many things that I consider normal,
which ...
Child Abuse Story From Rebbeca P I am a 40-year-old female who has only in the last 4 months acknowledged that I was sexually abused as a child. I had the memories, but I was hospitalised ...
Child Abuse Story From Vicki2 The abuse started when I was approximately 3 years old and continued until sometime in my 16th year. My step-father was the first. I can remember him showing ...
Child Abuse Story From Leanne One of my earliest memories as a child is when I was about 4/5. I went to my nan and granddad's every weekend. I distinctively remember sitting on my granddad'...
Child Abuse Story From Kristen3 I am 28 years old. I grew up in a very patriarchal family. My father was very much the head of the house. There was an aura of authority about him. My ...
Child Abuse Story From Lori M I was abused from about the age of 9. I had just moved back with my mother and had been with my father since I was about 2 years of age. My mom was with ...
Child Abuse Story From Anonymous27 My Mother's Nightgown: I have never shared this with anyone but felt compelled to tell you. First off, I am a heterosexual guy in my twenties. My ...
Child Abuse Story From Susan1 I'm now 19 years old. I was abused by my Aunt Jackie what seems like my whole life. I believe it all started when I was a toddler, though my first memory ...
Child Abuse Story From Jennifer1 The first incident that I can remember was when I got my tetanus shot. I remember my room being very messy and my mom wanting us to clean it when we got ...
Child Abuse Story From Faith My childhood was somewhat saved...my mom raised 5 girls by herself. She is one of the strongest people I know...when I was born my mom had already had ...
Child Abuse Story From Nikki3
I am writing upon the suggestion of my sister, Emme. She didn't directly suggest it. She simply showed me the page.
You know where I grew up if you've ...
Child Abuse Story From Kelsea1 Child Abuse Story Without Healing: I am not writing this for others to lose hope. I simply do not know how to heal, and it has been five years....
Child Abuse Story from Yvonne Still getting over it - Part 1: I'm not sure if this is even abuse, and compared to everyone else's stories I've read, it's really nothing. But ...
Child Abuse Story From Fallen Angel When I was 9 years old I went to a family party at my aunt's house. We all stayed up really late, and as my mom had had a drink, she decided not to drive ...
Child Abuse Story From Emme No One Ever Listened: I was born and raised in a little town in Mississippi, where a Good beating was heartily accepted and encouraged. My brother ...
Child Abuse Story From Callie Shattered Trust and a Terrified Little Girl: I was about a year or two when it all started. My mom and father just split up and I had to visit ...
Child Abuse Story From Name Undisclosed8 My small childhood: This is going to sound a bit random, I don't know when or how this all started... perhaps I should start with what I do know....
Child Abuse Story From Ame I've thought about writing my story many times...in fact I have started once or twice before, just haven't managed to go through with it. I was sexually ...
Child Abuse Story From Luani After Being Molested: I got molested at 3 years old by my 2nd cousin. And I just couldn't get over the fact that every male in my family wanted ...
Child Abuse Story From George Growing Up at Home: I'm now in my 30's and I've suddenly started remembering things that happened to me when I was a child. For the most part I ...
Child Abuse Story From Whitney1 My mother was a raging alcoholic and my dad was dead. She left me on the side of the road when I was 3 years old. I was adopted by my grandparents (her ...
Child Abuse Story From Sapphire When I was 9 me and my family moved to a small town in Utah to help my aunt who had MS. The town had a population of 1,500 and most of the people were ...
Child Abuse Story From No Name1 I was 12 years old and I was sexually abused: I was 12 years old. I was coming from school. I had to go to the restroom but I did not go because ...
Child Abuse Story From Unknown1 I didn't call him dad; his name was HIM: I could probably write a book, but no one would believe it. I grew up in large family of 8. We were called ...
Child Abuse Story From Andrew Richards Part 4 A while ago I posted my story (see Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 of Andrew's Story ). Back then, everything seemed like it was on the up, like I was going ...
Child Abuse Story From DeAnna My story of abuse begins on my wedding day. MARRIAGE! What a cruel joke. I met my future husband at a football game. I was thirteen years old and he was ...
Child Abuse Story From Anonymous26
Reading a couple of these stories has brought back a whole lot of memories. My story is different from a lot of these, and it's strange.
Back around ...
Child Abuse Story From Stacy1 9-11: I was 9 and my mom moved to Shreve Port and I had to stay with my two aunts. One had six kids and the other has none. The one with six kids ...
Child Abuse Story From Megan My story begins when I was 5 years old. I was molested by an older cousin (female) who is 9 or 10 years older than myself. It started off as watching pornographic ...
Child Abuse Story From Lea I am 15 years old. I was physically abused by my mother. She was the kind of person who would seem nice to everyone else, but then when the door closed ...
Child Abuse Story From Yanique Hell for a 15-year-old girl begin at 13 years old (LIFE): I have been abuse by my father since I was 13. I am now 15 years old. Now that I am been ...
Child Abuse Story From Layla When I was 5 my parents got divorced (my mom died a week later, strangely enough) and I went to live with my dad. I had always been big for my age and ...
Child Abuse Story From Kristen1 I know what I am about to tell you is my own fault, but don't know what to do and can't tell anyone what's happening to me. I live in a rather bad area....
Child Abuse Story From Scott1 Part 2 The Beginning: Grade primary we went to a different school. Kind of the one-room schoolhouse. It was there that another child had taken my watch....
Child Abuse Story From NPie My mother was an unstable person and my parents' marriage failed early on. I was about 4, my brother 3. My father basically stole us from my mother and ...
Child Abuse Story From Scott1 I live in a small community. Everyone knows everyone. I have been here my whole life, never able to get away from these same people. We all went to school ...
Child Abuse Story From Mary3 I am 41 years now and have raised five wonderful children. I learned from being abused while growing up that I would be good and loving to my children....
Child Abuse Story From No Name My story began a very long time ago. I can't tell you when it started, but I can tell you when it stopped. I had just turned sixteen three weeks before....
Child Abuse Story From Ms N When I was a child: When I was only 5 years old my stepdad did the most terrible thing you can do to a child. It was the morning of my birthday ...
