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Child Abuse Story From Jill

by Jill
(Connecticut, USA)




Big, Deep, Breath. Ok, I have never told my story to anyone...I've always felt it didn't matter and 'was not that big of a deal'..I still kind of think that way. It happened when I was around 8 years old, I am now 28. It's not as horrid as what most of the others have been through so I feel guilty for even posting it. Anyways here goes.. It was my self and a bunch of other kids from the neighborhood playing hide n seek..I found what I thought was a good hiding place by an oil tank on the side of a house. I was laying face down on the ground for a minute or so then out of the blue I felt my pants being yanked down to about my mid thigh...I looked back and saw my rear end exposed and my friends 19 year old brother on top of me naked rubbing his bare genitals on my backside...I honestly didnt now what to think. He then got off of me, I stood up, pulled up my pants n walked back home in disbelief. Whats odd to me is I blocked it out up intill 10 years ago or so. I also had another expierence when I was 10 or so w/ another older boy in the neighborhood. I believe he was 13. I was friends w/ his sister so I would go to her house n he would be there. It started by him making comments about my breasts being small. It then turned into him shoving his hands up my shirt and fondling me. This went on for a few months. It then escalated into him pitting his hands down my pants. What I'm about to say is weird but in some ways I enjoyed the attention he gave me. It all stopped when I moved away. After that I would have reoccurring nightmares and a bedwetting problem. I don't know if it was caused from that or not. There was also other problems going on in the home. My dad would hit my mom and dinner ended up on the wall on several occasions. I even vaguely remember my dad throwing a knife at my moms leg. I know I was affected in some way by the things I witnessed and experienced..I was very promiscuous at a very young age..12.. It was always consensual tho. It was always w/ men 19 or older. I hated myself.. I let these men take advantage of me and let them do whatever they wanted to me. I even caught multiple STD's..I know, disgusting, right? I also know it has affected me cause its REALLY hard for me to make friends and form lasting friendships...that's what I dislike the most about myself..i dont know how to talk to people so therefore I don't have friends, only acquaintances. I now have two wonderful daughters and I'm completely obsessed with keeping them safe from any harm. I don't let them go anywhere that I am not, with the exception of school. I'm paranoid that someone could harm them in a sexual way. I have trust issues. That could also be from my mom..i cant really remember her talking to me conversating or hugging or telling me she loves me. I feel like im whining. I can't believe I actually told what I've been holding in for 20 years! Well, Thank You for letting me vent and for taking the time to read this and sorry it's so long an scattered. I have faith that I will be healed from what ails me, through my Savior Jesus Christ!






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Oct 21, 2011
Jill:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

Your story came out just right. And try not to minimize what you went through. It's not about whether or not your story is worse than someone elses. It's about the effects you're left with as a result of what happened to you. It's about not burying the pain any longer. And clearly, you've been left with effects. You were sexually assaulted by multiple males throughout your childhood. At 12 you were not in a position to consent, so please stop thinking that the sex was consensual. It wasn't. Period. End of story. At 19, the man who you believe you had consensual sex with actually raped you. Think abut it, Jill. Would you even come close to blaming your 12-year-old daughter for a sexual encounter with a man who is 19...I don't think so. You were 12, Jill, 12, and even younger. You were looking for ways to get the love you didn't get from your father. Love that you were denied, but that you needed. That didn't make you complicit in sexual abuse, it made you victimized. Ask yourself just what exactly is going on when a 19-year-old is having sex with a 12-year-old...he was a pedophile, Jill. Please seek out some form of counselling in order to help you deal with the repercussions of what you endured in your abusive environment, what you were forced to witness, and what you endured at the hands of others who took advantage of your youth and vulnerabilities. You didn't deserve to be abused. You certainly deserve help for the fact that you were. And your daughters deserve to have a mother who is present, happy and healthy. 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

Oct 22, 2011
degrees of abuse
by: My Two Cents

Jill,

Abuse is abuse. Whether person x's or person y's abuse was worse, more severe, more sadistic, whatever; all that is irrelevant in this context.

What's at issue here is that YOU experienced an action or actions that you precieved to be abusive and it had an effect on you.

Please don't worry that "it wasn't that bad" or "at least it wasn't....". That stuff is all irrelevant. What's important now is to deal with the effect the abuse had on you.

You were a child. Your body belongs to you and regardless of age, no one should be touching it without your permission. It doesn't matter if you were manipulated into it, or if physical force was used or drugs or threats. Nobody should have hurt you or touched you in a way that would hurt you. The gender of the abuser doesn't matter. What the abuse was doesn't matter - what matters is that your trust was taken away from you.

I hope you have a counsellor that understands that, that is helping you get through this.

Be well.

My Two Cents.

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