Child Abuse Story From Jodie
by Jodie
(UK)
This story not only involves my child abuse but that of my brother, half sister and another unrelated child.
My biological mother and father split up not long after I was born. My father had cheated on my mother and she rightfully divorced him. Around the age of 3 my father had moved 130 miles away to live with his new wife (not the woman he cheated with but another woman). When I first met his new wife (my stepmother if you could call her that) seemed lovely and my fathers parents/ my grandparents approved of her. My Father used to visit us occassionally. When i was around 5 and my full biological brother was 7 he used to have us for school holidays and occasional bank holiday weekends. I was a daddys little princess, i used to love my daddy.
The second time we stayed over was when the mental, physical and emotional abuse began, i was never sexually abused though that i can recollect. My memories are technicolour as though they happened just yesterday, scars that never fade.
My stepmother at first only had to look after my brother and I as she had no children of her own, she resented us, jealous of the children my father had from another woman. My brother really only got emotional abuse told he was worthless and if he told anyone we would be left in care. I was her preferred victim. For years she beat me, scratched me, used to tie the vaccum wire around my throat and swing me from it, we were never fed, only occasionally and i think my father knew exactly what was going on although she never struck us in front of him, he was always at work as an engineer for some car manufacturer. she never let me go to the toilet and i got beaten for wetting myself. they got a dog and used to blamne the bruises on the dog (great dane) although it never hurt me. Around a year later she had her first child. she doted on her, her attacks grew more violent and worse, we had to feed, carry and look after her child aswell. Sometimes we would go to a friends house and she would babysit another child for this friend- i used to see her shake this baby and pinch and slap her when she cried. she never fed this baby either. I used to tell my mum what happened and a 5 year court investigation began. I was poked and prodded by specialists but this all took time. She went on to have another child, a second daughter. She was treated the same as me and my brother. (I will call her amy for this story).
Amy was thrown and never fed and never changed, slapped and shaked. one day after she had a third child- a boy which she had wanted so she could have what my own mother had, she threw amy at me (I was 8 years old) a good 10 metres from the top of the stairs, i didnt catch her she banged her head. I was too young to understand and too frightened. When i got home i told my mum. on the journey home that time my brother told my dad what was goin on- my dad shouted at him and told him if he said anything else he would get a slap. they used my brother as a weapon to lie, to say that it was my mum doing these terrible things. My mum knew it was going on, but she was helpless as my father and stpemother were accusing her, she was being broken down and this case was sent to the highest court in (london uk), they made up extravagant lies- a team as you wish and they got away with it.....almost as they had a top barrister. It was Amy's case that cracked it. the hospital had filed a report to social services concerned for amy, she had old fractures and brain damage. Amy was taken off them as a result of child abuse and neglect and adopted by another family. But aside both of them went free and me nor my brother recieved any justice, besides that they were never allowed contact again! This story is very brief, i cannot even begin to describe everything she did to me and my brother, but the fact she threw her own 18 month old baby down the stairs should give you a clue.
The two other children still live with them and they are together- the oldest is 16 now and she contacts me on the net, the younger child is being abused. How are the Social Services letting this go on! Me and my brother got no child support or maintenance either during our whole childhood! My mum still has all the files from the case and she did well to stand up in court with a legal aid barrister, and the file contains photos of me as a child covered head to toe in bruises, it makes me sick that anyone can do that to a child.
It has affected my entire life, i cannot trust anybody and i have no confidence, i suffer from anxiety and depression and have been diagnosed as having BPD (bi-polar disorder). I am 23 now and graduated from university with honours, i have fought to get to where i am. But i want justice now i can testify against them. im afraid if i dont these demons will follow me around for the rest of my life.
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