Child Abuse Story From Kristy

by Kristy F.
(Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)

The fear never stops: 
From the time I was 5, I suffered at the hands of my physically abusive father, and until I was 14, I had to deal with the sexual abuse of my brother, who was 1 year older than me. And to top it all, my mother had Münchhausen Syndrome by Proxy...she made and kept me sick for her personal attention and gain. I had nowhere safe to turn.

I was the youngest of three. At home, we were all beaten on a daily basis, being woken up with either my father putting his cigarette to the smoke alarm or by running into our bedrooms with pots and pans. If it was the weekend, we would be given a toothbrush and had to scrub the house down, while both my parents would do their drugs or drink and yell at me, telling me how worthless I was.

At the end of the school day, after being teased by the kids at school, I would have to share the bathtub with my brother. This went on until the age of 8, where he would "do things Mommy and Daddy did." Once, he tied me down to my bed and stuck random things inside of me.

I was born with severe ear problems. My ears wouldn't drain by themselves, so I always had to wear ear plugs anytime I went into the water. But my mother would put droplets of water in my ears to keep them infected, and then she would always rush me to the E.R. I can remember my ear drums popping 3 times from being so infected.

Around Christmastime, when I was 8 or 9, my uncle came to stay with us, and he stole from my father...my father kept us home one day from school and beat us with a belt for 3 to 4 hours straight...made us go take a nap, where we all huddled on my sister's bed, only to be awaken with more beatings, beatings to the point where we couldn't go to school for a week. All he had to say was "sorry" once he found out it wasn't us.

I am 26 now. I struggle every day with the low-self esteem that they pounded into my head. I struggle with the memories of the daily physical and sexual abuse that I had to endure from as young as I can remember.

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