Child Abuse Story From Lucy1
by Lucy
(Kent, England)
I would like to share my story to help other children, or teenagers, who are being abused, or have been abused. I am 14 years old. I was abused when I was the age of 8-9. My mum met a guy, and I didn't like him. I sensed that he was a nasty man, and from then on he turned out to be.
One day he was shouting at me for something that I didn't even do. He then slapped me. I ran off crying. Another time he tried to drown me. Where he lived he had this pond. He had a boat, and in this pond there was very big fish. I did not like the fish. He found it funny, so he got my head and put in under the water for a matter of seconds. It was so scary. My mum had NO knowledge of what was happening.
After all this I'd had enough. I wanted to go and live with my dad, so I did. After a while of living with him, my mum came round and said, "No, I've made a mistake, I want you back." Well of course I wasn't going back after the abuse that I had suffered. I refused. This all ended up in an argument between my mum and dad. It was horrid. There was pushing and shoving. I didn't like it. Mum and Dad went to court to see who I would live with. My mum won. I was horrified when I found out. I didn't want to go back to that horrid man, but I couldn't tell my mum. I was too scared to, because he said that if I told anyone he would kill me. I refused to go back with Mum, and Dad stood by me.
One day Dad and I came back from eating out. We pulled up the driveway, and he came round the corner in his car. He punched my dad. I ran out the car screaming my lungs out, and crying. After a few days he was arrested, and my mum got rid of him. I went back home to live with mum, but I still haven't told her, until this day, today. But my mum faces going to court now, all because I haven't been going to school for a long period of time. I feel terrible, but I have a reason why I haven't been going to school. The man. He is in my head. He's controlling me. I see him in mirrors. I hear his voice in my head. But my point to this story is to anyone who is being abused or has been abused: PLEASE DO TELL SOMEONE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. You won't regret it like I did. If I could go back in time and tell my mum when I should have done, I would do anything.
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