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Child Abuse Story From Earthlake

by Earthlake
(USA)

I survived what is referred to as ritual abuse. My perpetrators were my parents...my mother and father...others I didn't know as well. The abuse took place in the basement of our home...my home was bought in the 1950's by the Catholic Church and it has been home to an order of nuns since then...a high school was built on the property after my parents sold it to the church and it is still operating now.

My mother's family was wealthy and very well known in the state I grew up in and elsewhere. All the money in the world didn't make a bit of difference for me as a child growing up in the family. The ritual abuse occurred while we lived there...I was 3 and it lasted until I was 5, when my parents divorced. All I really want to shout out to the world at this point is that innocent children were killed...I saw it...I survived it...I have been completely unable to expose the truth, although I have tried everything I could think of. I am the only living person who can speak for those who lost their lives at the hands of my parents and the others...no one cares and evil has in fact won out over good...there is nothing I can do anymore...everyone except my mother is dead and she has never said, nor will, say one thing to incriminate herself in regards to this.

Money and power hid our abuse...it happens...the only one who came to my aid as an adult was a nun who used to live in the house and said she had to leave because she felt horrible in that environment...she sensed what had happened and told me that when she went into the basement of the home, she and the other nuns could not handle it, even when they tried to perform healing ceremonies to combat the evil they felt.

My mother raised us as Christian Scientists after the abuse...of course that meant we weren't allowed to see doctors or anyone other than Her Practitioner...well done Mom, you found another avenue to keep help away. When I was a teen I finally got help from the boarding school counselor where my parents had sent me...this was the beginning of years of counseling and recovery to heal...after integrating a personality of many fragments and a horrible case of PTSD I can say I survived....many others like myself did not survive the therapy it took to heal from abuse like this, so I was lucky.

I am still to this day terrified of my mother and have nothing to do with her...my greatest hope is that she dies before I do...I hope some of the fear will subside when she is gone. I am truly sorry that I was unable to expose the truth during my life time...they hid everything too well and there is nothing that can make them talk.

Now my mother is a Buddhist...she believes herself enlightened...she now uses Buddhism to cover herself and again she goes unnoticed...who would suspect a humble Buddhist ever murdered innocent children? Certainly not you...and that is why evil wins...it is clever and it hides well...it is smart.

When I recently hired an ex FBI agent to investigate some things for me, he interviewed my mother...a couple of weeks after that she opened up a new trust for me with a whole lot of money...she has always used her money to influence people...she thought it would hush me up...It didn't. I resent it and find it disgusting...MOM, here's the bottom line...you killed 2 babies and a man...you did so in the basement of the home that still exists today and is an ever present reminder to me, the one survivor who will tell the truth...because you wouldn't take the consequences of going to jail...you lied your whole life and you continue to...no Buddha, or Christ or Krishna will be able to rid you of what you did...you were willing to sacrifice my mental health so you wouldn't have to go to jail...you lost a daughter and you deserve it...you will come back in another lifetime...maybe then you will be ready to tell the truth and then you will be able to set yourself free. God knows you need to be set free.

Sincerely,
Earthlake

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Child Abuse Story From Earthlake

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Sep 27, 2008
Such torture...
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

Earthlake, I'm sorry that you haven't been able to find a way to expose this abuse. You certainly continue to be emotionally tortured by it. I can only hope you find some measure of peace for yourself; and may you find it before your mother dies. As long as you believe you won't find peace until she does die, her power continues to control you. You're worth more than such a life of continued torment.

Thank you for sharing your story on my site, Earthlake. I do wish you all the best.

Darlene Barriere
Violence & Abuse Prevention Educator
Author: On My Own Terms, A Memoir

Sep 27, 2008
what to do
by: earthlake

I guess I have to look at the fear of my mother
head on...I am still letting her terrify me.
Seeing someone get away with murder makes me
scared for my own safety. Her cleverness to cover this all up working also does....I am not sure where to start to get to another level of feeling...it seems so complicated.
thanks for your response and I do apprecitate it.
I will try to figure out something to do to heal further...it has to begin inside me I think.
best wishes, francesca

Note from Darlene: Francesca, I've recently suggested reading material for several of my contributors, reading material that can be very helpful when it comes to healing. Consider a book by Byron Katie titled Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life. She has written other books, but I believe this one is the best one to start with. Her approach is simple: question what you think. If you're willing to keep an open mind, perhaps her approach can help you with healing. You certainly deserve it.

Darlene Barriere
Violence & Abuse Prevention Educator
Author: On My Own Terms, A Memoir

Sep 27, 2008
thank you
by: earthlake

I will get the book tomorrow...I have heard about
it before but will absolutely read it.
best wishes and thank you for responding to me in such a helpful way. I am grateful to you and for your thoughtfully done website. Blessings!

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