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Child Abuse Story From Cassandra2

by Cassandra
(Brantford, Ontario, Canada)




I don't know how to heal: 
I was adopted when i was almost one. My step mom played the system and said she wasn't with my dad, but yet at the time she was preggers with my brother, my fathers son...my dad was not allowed around anyone under the age of 16, for attempting to sexually abuse my older sister...so because my step mom played the system i grew up with my dad.

I don't know when the abuse started, my earilest memories are from when i was 5. My step mom hated me, she was phyiscally, emotionally and mentally abusive towards me during the day. My father was sexually and emotionally abusive during the night.it all ended when i entered foster care 2 weeks before my 13th birthday.

My step mom would make me kneel in the corner balacing on my toes for hours, she'd choke me, stab me,beat me with sticks, straps, forks, brushes anything she could get a hold of, i have scars all over...she'd call be stupid worthless, ugly and names she could think of she knew about my dad abusing me, she'd ask me how it was in the mornings, she called me his whore...i went to her and told what my dad was doing when i was 5, she didn't care. I was forced to clean the house and take of my younger siblings. I block alot of things out...im trying to remember to heal but im scared that maybe i was at fault and that is why things happened. My younger siblings picked up on the way she treated me and treated me the same...my father started his abuse with hugs kisses and tickles...he was so nice when people were around, he was mister perfect.he had full intercourse with me when i was six, he'd lick, rub me...he made me have anal and sex with other kids and men...im scared of the dark, of people, hugs kisses...i trust no one...in my first foster home they told me i would become a abuser because i was abused.

Im 24 and have two kids, i hate the relationship im in...my head is messed up, i just want to scream!! Im confused and lost...theres still so much more to tell, so much more to remember




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Feb 24, 2010
Cassandra:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

There fear you feel about any of the abuse being your fault is unwarranted. It is NOT your fault. It will never BE your fault. Fault lies solely on the shoulders of the abuser. Period. End of story. I won't entertain even so much as a thought that you might be to blame. So get rid of that notion. Talk to your family doctor. Tell him/her that you need help dealing with all the repercussions of growing up in such an unhealthy environment. See if there is a way for you to get into some form of counselling without having to pay out of pocket for it. You didn't deserve to grow up with such abuse. You DO deserve help now that you have. Thank you for sharing your story with my visitors and me.

From Victim to Victory, a memoir
Darlene Barriere
Webmaster: www.child-abuse-effects.com
author. speaker. survivor. coach
From Victim to Victory, a memoir

Feb 24, 2010
A pedophile for a father...and a vicious beater for a stepmother
by: Anonymous

Cassandra, your "stepmother" is wrong. You are not ugly; you are beautiful. You are not stupid; you are smart and articulate. You are not worthless; you are worthy of love, care, respect and dignity. What that twisted loser scum of a stepmother did to you is truly inexcusable and sadistic because she is truly insane and really should be locked up with her slimy husband (your dad, to be exact) together. I also really hope that you are in a safe place now when you came into a foster care after getting away from those brutes for parents. You might also want to tell someone you really trust.

Feb 26, 2010
I Feel You.
by: Dan1

Cassandra I completely understand where you're coming from when you say you don't trust anyone. I'm having trust issues aswell. What happend to you was NEVER your fault. I was molested at 13 maybe not quite like you were but it was enough to view all adults as rapists. Even as of today (now 21) I still can't seem to meet people without thinking to myself that they're prabably rapists. I don't have kids but I pray to god to bless me with kids of my own someday. But I do have a lot of little cousins. There are times when I see 1 of them ask their parents for permission to go to their friends house and I start getting negative thoughts in my head about them getting abused by their friends parents. I know I'am over reacting. But I can't help it. I feel that I should protect my younger relatives. I don't want them to go through what I went through. I start to get nervous and I always want to suggest my uncles not to let them go but like isaid maybe I'm just over reacting.

Feb 26, 2010
You are not alone
by: Mary4

I know what it's like to have a parent use you and then give you to other people for their pleasure. Most parents protect their children not recieve pleasure from their pain

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