Child Abuse Story From Mani
by Mani
(Sri Lanka)
Mother and I, constant target of the abusive dad:
As the day i can remember, i can look back at many incidents where my father hit me, either with hand or with anythings he found laying nearby. In many a times it was not only me but my poor innocent mother as well.
let me start from some point. I am from Sri Lanka, and my father or the animal with whom i share genes is a so called educated man! he married off my mom after a love affair. In our country there is a custom of giving away a dowry when there is a marriage based on proposal. In some occasions even in love marriages parents of the girl's side give a dowry out of the love for the child. But there is no written rule one should give so.
In my mother's case there had been no dowry and my father has not asked for any at the time of the wedding. Since it is a love marriage usually nobody asks for a dowry. my mother has two sisters, their husbands never asked for a dowry.
However since the wedding my father's tyrannical nature has come-forth. They married in 1985 and i was born in 1986. My mother was first hit when i was only 1 month old, a thundering shot on her back while she was breast feeding me. Reason, my father had started to demand for a dowry.
Since then this has been the constant fight. I have seen many occasions where my father hit my mother brutally. Once he used a knife also. As i grew up i tried to prevent the fights and he started to hit me as well. Anyways since i was born my father has shown some kind of hatred towards me, for unimaginable reason, me being his own flesh!
writing this much has been hard, and it hurts to my inner core. i will enter escapades of my fathers cruelty which included breaking my arm soon in here.
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