Child Abuse Story From Aneta

by Aneta
(Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

Abuse is not a word that's new to me. It's something that's been going on through my whole life. My dad would beat my mom, he'd lie, and he'd verbally abuse her. But he never hit me, till about 2 years ago.

It started once in May, where he almost broke my thumb, it was sprained. He thought he saw me kissing a boy, and I said I didn't. He started smashing my head off walls. My mom did nothing, she didn't even kick him out, and he was there again that night.

Then in August, it happened again. He didn't like a pair of pants I had bought a few months ago and decided to yell at me about those. I didn't even have those pants anymore. He kept yelling at me to give them to him, but I didn't have them and I told him that. He didn't believe me, so he started hitting me with a studded belt. I threatened to call the police, he threatened to kill me. Luckily, my screams were loud enough to be heard from the third story so neighbors heard. The police came, he wouldn't let them in. He started begging for me not to tell. And I said, "Why? Aren't you proud of what you did?" He left the room and started cleaning up the mess he had made so it looked like nothing happened. (He'd smashed his body through my door; I still have that big hole there.)

The police finally broke in after 20 minutes; they had to break the glass door. The policeman asked my dad what happened. He said nothing, we were just arguing. Then a policeman came and asked me, "So you were just arguing." I shook my head no with tears coming down my face, and I pulled up my pant leg and said, "He hit me". After that, he was arrested, and put on a 1,500 dollar bail, that he made almost immediately. I was sent to the hospital to check for internal bleeding. We went to court for a year, only for the case to be dismissed. Now this man lives with me again, and I can't do anything, or persuade my mom to see him as I do. I can never forgive him for what he's done to me, my mom, and my 9-year-old sister.

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