Child Abuse Story From Francine 03-09-07

by Francine
(San Ramon, California, USA )

What Falls on Deaf Ears:  
My parents were extremely brutal, although my dad doesn't hit me as much as my mom did. My mother was raised with extreme physical abuse and severe emotional abuse, both of which were at the hands of her parents.

One time, when my mother was either 12 or 13, she tried to run her own brother with a knife, for which her parents brutally beat, humiliated and even grounded her for several years, so she decided to take out these horrible feelings upon me. My parents said to me, "We're going to teach you about the beauty of pain and you are going to be our slave for the rest of your life!" They always treated me and my brother as hired help, forcing us to serve their every whim. Well, not as much him as they did me! I came from a very dysfunctional family!

As for my relatives on my mother's side (some live in NY while others live in Israel), they wouldn't help me because they felt that every child had to be disciplined whenever he/she does "bad". I hate those people for not saving me from my brutal parents. Even my grandmother Olga always chooses to believe my parents over me! I also have some friends who were abused, too, although their abuse at the hands of their parents was not as severe as mine really was!

My uncle Oleg (my mom's brother) had witnessed my mother bullying me only a few times, but he really couldn't do anything because whenever Oleg (or my brother Allen) tried to stop my mother from hurting me, she said to him, "If you stop me, I'll beat you up as well!"

As for Grandma Olga, like my dad, she and my grandpa, (the Big Guy) just stood/sat back and did nothing. They never tried to stop my mother. They didn't even hug me or tell me they loved me. "You guys! What do you think you were doing, making your mother so angry like that? Will you smarten up for once? Now you'd better run off to bed before Momma sees you, sweetie" was all they would ever say to me.

I hate to say this, but this is all I could ever say about those people who were supposed to wake up, open their eyes and help me. Thank you so much for listening.

Thanks for your site, Darlene!

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