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Child Abuse Story From Name Undisclosed104

by Name Undisclosed
(Location Undisclosed)




He said Don't Tell: 
I was 7 years old, doing what most 7 years old do, running around, playing, making lots of noise whatever. I ran into my stepfather's den one day and yelled "Play with me!" I interrupted him watching a porn video of course at 7, you don't really know what porn is, and the only thing is saw was kissing. I apologised to my stepdad for interrupting and was about to walk out when he grabbed my arm and and told me to sit down. He'd pressed pause on the remote and went on to explain to me that he was just watching people play a game. He then asked me if i wanted to learn how to play. "OK" I said. I had no idea what i was in for. He asked me if i'd ever been kissed. i shook my head. He told me to close my eyes and then he kissed me on my mouth, like i'd seen him kiss my mom. When he stopped he asked me if i liked it. I nodded. It hadn't bothered me, it was just a kiss. He did it again and then again. And then he told me i was playing well and i needed to learn how to play the next level. He told me to close my eyes again and then kissed me again. Suddenly i felt his tongue rolling around in my mouth. It felt strange and i wasn't sure i liked it, but when he asked me if i did i nodded. He kept kissing me like that for a while until my mother called me. "best go see what mum wants" he said. I got up to leave until he grabbed my arm again and said "Don't tell. Its our special game". I nodded and he let me go.

Nothing happened again until a few days later he picked me up from school. We stopped on the way home and he asked me if i remembered the game we played. When i said yes he said he wanted to play it again. "OK" i said. So he kissed me like he had kissed me that last time, his tongue rolling in my mouth. he told me we were at the next level and i should kiss him like that too. So i did. Ten minutes later he told us we should go home. When we got home he stopped the car and then told me again "Don't tell". After that, the kissing games became regular, whenever he got me alone. One day, i was alone at home with him and he told me he wanted to play the game. He told me id reached a new level of the game. He didnt say anything else after that and just kissed me. As he was kissing me i felt his hand go down my backside and suddenly i felt his hand on my bottom. he kept pinching it as he was kissing me and i felt his finger touch me inside my bottom. It felt weird. It didn't hurt then it just tickled. When he stopped he asked me if i liked it. I nodded. He took my hand and led me to the sofa where he made me lie down and continued to kiss me. Suddenly he stopped kissing me and pulled my skirt and underwear off. Then he began kissing me where my privates were. he asked me if i liked being tickled. I said yes. He then touched me on my private parts. I didn't like it it hurt, it didnt feel like being tickled. But i didn't say anything, even when he asked me the usual question - did i like it? We heard my mom's car drive up and he told me to put my skirt back on. As i did he said those words again. "Don't Tell".



My stepfather played this game with me for years, sometimes he would pretend with my mom that he was just going to tuck me in bed and he would play the game with me then. The other times were either when he would pick me up from school or whenever he got me alone at home. Unusually i wasn't afraid of him then. I was 10 years old when i realised that these games, weren't games. I didn't know exactly what they were i just knew they i weren't right. I was older and started learning things which was at the point i knew it wasn't right. But for some reason the games continued, i didn't know how to stop them. i tried saying i didn't want to play once but he didn't listen. i started to hate him then. But i couldn't escape him. After my 13th birthday he'd come into my room and did what he usually did but that soon followed with him taking my virginity. When it was over he told me i was a big girl now, and the games were going to stop. Then he said those words before he left my room "Don't tell". He never came into my room again, and he never touched me again either.

So what happened after that? Well i couldn't live in the same house as him after that, and i made a story to my mom about having done research on high schools and i wanted to go away to a really good school. So i did, and i tried to avoid going back home over the holidays but i had to come back for some and i felt dirty everytime my stepfather looked at me.

I'm 19 now and i'm in college but i have a boyfriend who i can't enjoy having sex with. Everytime we do i see my stepfather and all i can do is cry. He doesn't know what happened to me. I told my steptfather i would never tell. today is the first time i've said anything.




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Jul 24, 2026
To Name Undisclosed:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

What this pervert did to you was not your fault. Fault lies squarely on HIS shoulders because he chose to offend you. He had all the power. He took advantage of your vulnerabilities as a little girl. None of this is on you. You've taken the first step by telling here. I commend and applaud that you've taken that necessary first step. Now you must take the next step and tell someone who can help you, someone who can help you deal with the repercussions of being sexually abused by someone you trusted and how it's now affecting your ability to be intimate with your boyfriend. Please seek out the counselling that is available to you in college, and look into other resources available to you. Your college counsellor should be able to help you with that. And report what he did to you. He's a sex offender of young children; and it's very likely that he's still offending. The reason he stopped with you at 13 was likely because you became too old for him. As sick as it sounds, his preference is for little girls. He won't stop until he's made to stop. Children are not safe around him. And you have the power to make a difference in the life of another child by telling. "Don't tell" was his power over you; reclaim your power and Tell. You didn't deserve to be abused. You certainly deserve help for the fact that you were. 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

Jul 24, 2026
The sooner, the better...Darlene is right!
by: Anonymous

I can't believe that your mom would abandon you to the so-called care of that sick pervert of a stepdad and allow him to offend you...how dare she! He might be offending other little girls as well, so the sooner you tell, the better. Darlene is right! Please tell someone you really trust (yes, you can even tell your boyfriend about it too!) and keep telling until he/she will finally listen to you and help you.

Jul 24, 2026
What Courage
by: Carrie

You have such courage for telling your story on her that is huge. Thank you! I really hope that you will be able to find it within yourself to get some help. You are so young and this could affect you more and more in the future if you don't. The very best gift that you could give to yourself is getting help. You are so worth that in every way. I know it is easy to suggest to you to tell someone but if you can find strength please do. This person as you know is so dangerous and that aside he needs to reap the consequences of his actions.

Take care of you. There are people who can help you and there is hope of a good future.

Jul 24, 2026
it can get better
by: Anonymous

The way your step father went from kissing to more involved "games" reminds me of my so called therapist who talked to me about my brother having oral sex with me and me swallowing the semen. I never told her that happened, she just guessed, after doing some tests on me like Rorschach tests. She groomed me for further abuse, because she had a daughter my same age who by the age of fifteen had had an abortion. She called having sex "playing games." I have had to come to terms with her so called view of me as a girl who acted out sexually with my older brother, that I was the perpetrator. I wasn't.

So thank you for your sharing your story with us all. I am glad you are TELLING it now. I hope you will find an appropriate therapist = someone who knows about children's real needs and recognizes that you are a child still about sex. I still feel like a child when i make love. And I am 57.
And I have had tons of therapy. But the best people I talk with are women at a women's shelter, the sexual assault program directors. They have FACTS in hand and can help you KNOW yourself. It never goes away, not really, but it does get livable. And forgive yourself AND the idiot who did this to you. I know that's hard, but don't build a life on hatred. It will only hurt you. I have a friend raising six children who was molested by her sister then she in turn molested her younger brother. She talks about the events of her childhood with her own Mother - who said the right thing to her : that she should have known it was happening and been there for her children to stop it. It helps to talk about it, believe me. But you have to choose carefully who to talk about it to.
Keep us posted on your progress in life. It does get better.

Jul 25, 2026
I am taking charge of my own life's destiny: I can: I will: I must because I am WORTH it:
by: maurice

You have begun another chapter in your life's journey by telling truthfully what happened you at the hands of that sicko, pervert, big offender in his abuse of little girls: Darlene has affirmed you: shared heart words with you for you to move on in your life: You'll do what you know to be the best for other innocent little girls as you were and safeguard them from this beast: You will be okay, you will be the winner over your abuser now that you know he took away your innoence and your virginity: He was very wrong: did you a terrible injustice: I am not to blame: He was: Don't tell as Darlene's tell you was his power over you: Now, you take charge of your own destiny: I will: I can: I must because I am WORTH it; Be gentle and kind with yourself and on your beautiful body especially your preciousness of parts: Make them as beautiful by being ever so gentle with them: care for them with tender love; Respect and value you your body so that your boyfriend will love, value and respect where you are at when it comes to love making: You'll gently let go of the bad memory and effect he left in you: Counselling will help and put all you wrote into perspective for you: At college you have a great opportunity to speak with a counsellor or one or two tutors that you trust: Have a female friend or two your own age so you can confide in them your intimate of feelings and they will listen to you, love, you, respect you< for the great and good person you are at 19 years of age: Now special one behind Undiclosed 104 ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOUR SELF: Have a healthy mind in a healthy body: This will mean taking part in team sports and sporting and cultural activities: You will broaden your seeing of yourself and open up new horizons with a renewed, re-energised thinking and being: So think poistive Be positive: Act Positive forgive my vulgarity but Pee etc away the negative letting go is a huge breakthrough in healing from abuse: Look in the Mirror: Who am I? I am: Amazing the architect of my own destiy: Beautiful: both inside and out: Courageous: willing to take chances: Of with you: Live well: laugh often: LOVE much beginning with your great and good self: hi and cuddle that beautiful body of yours: I will etc:

Jul 25, 2026
You are so brave
by: Anonymous

I know it takes a lot of courage to tell your story....but don't wait like I did. I am 35 and 2 weeks ago I told my children and husband of 15 years about my step-father sexually abusing me from 4 to 10 yrs old. I have actually pressed criminal charges and possibly civil charges. Trust me, the longer you wait to tell the people you love, the more the effects of the abuse will shatter your relationships. My Mother chose to stand behind her husband after I broke down and spilled my guts to her. I was not expecting to have to deal with her reaction.....because I thought, "how could she NOT hold me in her arms and comfort me when I tell her what he did"....but not everyone will react the way we think they should. It's something I am struggling to understand, but day by day, I am learning that I need to surround myself with my supporters and not worry about who believes me and who does not. Be strong...You will get through this so keep your head up!!

Sep 01, 2025
undisclosed
by: Anonymous

i understand what u r going thru.i feel sorry for whatever bad things happened to u bt at the same time m proud that u finally managed to speak about it.its just the beginning my dear.m sure u wl b happy in future.God will help u overcome it.i will pray for u.i know u hv been thru a lot n it surely will take some time to get over it.its a long process but trust me u will heal.n if its possible for u then talk to ur bf abt it bt make sure he doesnt take advantage of it.if he loves u m sure he wl b supportive.just be happy sweetheart :)

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