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Child Abuse Story From Crystal

by Crystal
(Australia)




Until now no one knows what Ive been through: I was about 9 living in the Northern Territory and my mum had some guests over one night. I knew a guy named R-- because he was my brother's friend who was about a year or two older than me. When they came over R--'s Parents where in the lounge room getting drunk and I was hanging in my room alone. While I was in my room, I heard R-- knock on the door just as he walked on in. We where sitting on the bed talking and then we were getting tired so we lied down on my bed and the next thing i know he was taking off his clothes and trying to make me do things I didn't want to do. He started holding me and taking off my clothes as well. He started touching me and kissing me 'down there' and made me do the same to him. After that he had to go home and all I was thinking is I never want to see him again.

I am now 12 living in South Australia and on my 13th birthday I'm going back to North Australia to see the things we left behind, family and friends. I am scared of whats it gonna be like seeing R-- again or if he will remember what he did to make my life a misery. looking back on it there's one simple message I learnt from all this, it is that no one should take advantage of you or make you do something you dont want to, but now I have the power to help others with problems like this, because after all I've been through there's still a lot more left unwritten...?




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Jan 16, 2012
Crystal:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

I admired that you want to help others who have been through something similar. Believe me when I say it's not enough to have lived it in order to help others through it. You must first help your Self through it; and that means telling someone, preferably your parents, and then getting some professional help. You can't deal with this alone, Crystal. There's a reason you still have parents responsible for you. You said that you are already afraid of going back on this trip. Of course you would be. You don't know if he'll do the same thing to you. And trust me, he remembers. It's not something he's going to forget. The problem is, he already gotten away with it once, probably more often with others, so he likely thinks he's free to keep sexually abusing. Please speak out to your parents. Unless they know, they won't be able to protect you. And you deserve to be protected. You don't deserve to be sexually abused. 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

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