Child Abuse Story From Bell

by Bell
(Vermont, USA)

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 growing up. I was involved because I stuck up for my step-cousin that day...you see, when we were younger we were always to go outside to play. Not a big deal, you might say, but it was. Kids were not allowed in the house to just hang out.

Me and my step-cousin were outside playing a game of tag with my other cousins, when all of a sudden my step-cousin had to go to the bathroom. I saw him running as fast as he could to the house, but he didn't quite make it. He stopped running and started crying really hard. So I asked him what was wrong. At first he acted embarrassed and whispered to me that he had wet himself. I acted as if it wasn't a big deal, and told him to go change his clothes and I would wait for him. Well, he began to literally tremble, so I asked again what was wrong. He told me that if his mother found out that he had peed his pants that she would beat him. To my dismay, I offered to go inside and sneak him some clothes out the window so she wouldn't find out. It almost worked, except that when his mother had gone outside to talk to the kids about something she had almost walked into him when she turned the corner of the house. Immediately, I heard screaming and I knew that she had discovered what had happened. I peeked out the window and I literally saw her beating my step-cousin with a stick. I ran out of the house and jumped on her and yelled and screamed at her. Needless to say she turned on me too. Not only did she start hitting me as well, but she forced me to go inside and kneel on my knees on rice in a corner for two hours before my mom came back. When my mom saw what she had done to me she yelled at her and threaten her that if she ever touched any of us kids again she would have her locked up. Needless to say the abuse with step-cousin continued for a long time after that. I lost touch with him when my grandfather passed away. I could tell you more but this incident was the most impressionable one I had experienced when it came to abuse.

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