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Child Abuse Story From Carmen2

by Carmen
(USA)




Thank you for letting me share my story. I really didn't get it as bad as what others got, but I would like to share. Its kind of weird because it happened so slowly, the abuse that is. The first thing I remember is being about 11 years old sitting at the dinner table with my family. My dad sat straight across from me and he would put his foot up on my chair in between my legs. He would use his big toe and rub me over my clothes. Nobody knew it was happening and I kind of liked it too. It felt different. I ended up masturbating at night thinking about what happened at the table. I can't believe it, but I must have been turned on by what he did to me.

That ended though, I don't know why or how long it lasted for, but my dad stopped touching me with his foot. A few years later though I remember him rubbing my thigh while in the car. My uncle was driving with his wife in the front seat. I sat in the back with my dad and older brother. I remember dad sat in the middle and had his hand on my thigh. I don't remember much else, just thinking it was different.

So thats all I really remember. My dad didn't do much to me before I was 14-15. Then it happened so fast, I couldn't even see it coming. It was summer and our whole relation camps at a place on Lake Michigan. I was 15 or close to it. I was at the campfire with my cousin and it was like midnight. Everyone else had gone to bed and my dad came out of the camper and asked us if we wanted to go for a walk. My cousin ended up going to bed but I wasn't tired and decided to go with him. We went to the end of the pier and sat there and watched the moon over the water. I remember saying something like, "have you ever seen anything so beautiful." Thats when my dad put his arms around me and said, "yes, I'm holding her right now." I thought it was sweet of him. I didn't know he meant more than what a father should tell his daughter. He began kissing me on my head and neck. Then he was kissing my back and went on his knees and kissed my butt. I didn't know what to do. I was in shock of what was happening. I kept looking out over the water hoping he would stop. But he didn't. His hands unbuckled my belt and he dropped my shorts. I froze like a deer in headlights. He kissed my now naked butt, then performed oral sex on me from behind. All he said to me was to bend over so he could get to me better. He licked me like a dog. I was so embarrassed, so scared. Its so easy now to ask myself why I didn't scream or pull away. But when it happens like it did, when I least expect it, it is so hard to tell someone I trust not to do it. I was tricked by my dad into taking a walk with him. And when my dad wants something, he gets it, and I was his prey.



When he finally stopped he pulled my shorts up, and said that we better get back. He molested me for the next 2 years. Usually oral sex on me, sometimes just using his hand and fingers on me. Only like twice did he pull himself out and demand me to give him oral.

What hurts the most is the betrayal of my body. My body enjoyed it so much, but my heart wanted to die. I also have trouble talking to my dad. Even though the abuse has stopped, I feel so awkward in front of him now. But I think I will get through it. I know I had it easy compared to some of you.




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Child Abuse Story From Carmen2

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Dec 29, 2009
Carmen:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

Tell someone! You need help with this. Your father is a child molester, and is likely molesting other girls. He won't stop until he is made to stop. You don't want that on your shoulders. As for your body betraying you...that's not unusual. Just don't blame yourself for what happened. Thank you for sharing your story with my visitors and me.

From Victim to Victory, a memoir
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author. speaker. survivor. coach
From Victim to Victory, a memoir

Dec 30, 2009
Oh please rid the world of this vicious molester
by: maurice

Carmen 2. Darlene as always is your real and true help as to what you should do. In her comment she put before you honesty of what your horrible father did to you. Don't blame yourself, get a friend or two whom you can really trust. That may not be easy right now but you will. I know trusting someone after being abused is the hardest thing for any of us. But there is genuine caring, respecting people around you whom you can trust and tell. Your Father was (is) a molester of young girls. please stop him by telling on him to the authorities. I will never understand why the father of his innocent child would carry out such abuse. You are a big girl now, very sure that it was not right what he did to you on that night and for the next few years. Don't blame yourself that it seemed good at the time and your tiny body was okay with it even though you wanted him to stop. You can't go on the only if's and why's like if your cousin was with you etc. It did not happen so you will never know. your body was molested by a supposeingly caring Father who told you he was holding something one beautiful. only to abuse you. Always believe in yourself. I am beautiful, I'll make sure no one else abuses my beautiful body. You are worth all the love and respect and your dignity now that you know That your Father did horrible things to you. Please be good to yourself. Today as we begin a New year promise you will make new beginnings just for you. Get that special person in your life called friend who will be there for you. This friend is outside your normal boy/girl friendships even when things don't work out there for you this FRIEND will be there for you. Talk to a counsellor era go on it will be the best start to 2010 for you.

Dec 31, 2009
not your fault
by: Anonymous

i think you should know that what happened to you was just as bad as any other situation of sexual abuse especially since it was repeated. it can be confusing because it wasn't violent or aggresive. but its still abuse. My situation was similar, for years i told myself to stop making such a big deal about it because its nothing compared to what some people go through, but thats not true. in some ways the slow manipulative encounters make the victims feel more ashamed. your body responded because that was natural. and you had no control over it, the shame belongs with him. he had no right to do that, and he betrayed your trust as a daughter. let him have all the shame and guilt, because it's his.

Jan 05, 2010
Child molesters don't just stop
by: Mike

I'm happy that your father has stopped molesting you, but as Darlene said:
"Your father is a child molester, and is likely molesting other girls. He won't stop until he is made to stop."

He may not be molesting other girls yet, but he will. They start with someone close to them because they are the easiest ones to keep quiet, but they do move on to others after. He may have stopped molesting you because he thought you were getting too old for him, or he was afraid if he kept going, you might tell someone, but somewhere, someday, he WILL find another young girl to "take under his wings".

One of the most common reasons for not reporting a father or even step-father is because the victim still loves that person and doesn't want to be the cause of getting that person locked up, but if you love your father, that's even more reason to tell. He is sick and needs help and won't get it until the law finds out what he did.

Protect future victims and get your father the help he needs. Report him.

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