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Child Abuse Story From Nicole D

by Nicole D
(British Columbia, Canada)




- a father is suppposed to be a daughters first love, well, not for me. i will never know what a father-daughter relationship feels like.

from what i can remember, i was molested by my father between the ages of 7/8 - 12-13. My birth father.

i dont like to call him my father or dad, so ill call him marc. Marc would drink on weekends, and probably every other day during the week. I beleive that he and my mother had done drugs in the past.

My mom was a server at night, so she would "close-up" meaning she wouldnt be home untill 2-3 am in the morning. Marc would drink, make sure all his kids ( my two other younger sisters) were sound asleep in all of our beds.

He would call my name around midnight, and make me crawl into bed with him. He would make me touch him, he would touch my private area, he would use his fingers to penetrate me. It hurt soo much, but i didnt want to say "no" or "stop" because he was my father, and what father said, goes.

Marc would also call me into the shower, and make me wash his genitals, and make me touch him, and he would also touch me everywhere.. when he would take a bath he'd do the same. And this all happened when my mom n sisters went out and did stuff, i would stay home.

i remember him after work, when we'd (me and my sisters)get home from school, he'd make me take my top off so he could observe my growth.

from my knowledge, my sisters were never touched.

one time, i was home alone and marc came home from spending a few hours at the bar, i was watching tv, he came beside me, and asked me how my day was etc..
he told, not asked, told me to take my pants off. i did as i was told. he inserted his fingers in me, made me explore myself. he later brought me to his bedroom and told me to lay down. I was scared to say no. I layed down and took my pants off as he told me to do so.

He told me to enjoy what he was about to do. He touched me everywhere. he started putting his lips all over my body. and then he put his mouth on my privates. he started to abuse me ORALY. he told me i should enjoy this and that it should feel good. Thats when i lost myself.

When marc stopped, he said i shouldnt tell anyone and that i should goto 7/11 and get candy with him.

thats when my life changed.

i ran away from home, i moved into friends houses's at the age of 14-15, i didnt tell anyone. Everyone just thought i cried out for attention and that i wanted to be the center of attention.



i started drugs. drugs became my friend. drugs numbed the pain. all the pain he had inflicted on me. i ran away to another province (still only 15) with a young man ive never met before. He took me to edmonton and thats when i started using streetdrugs.

im not going into detail of my life through drugs. i slept with many many many men in my time, im 21 and ive slept with over 100 men.

Marc would also emtionally abuse the rest of the family, calling my mom "a bitch" in front of us, be-littling everyone in the house. Telling my sisters and i we were useless and nothing and couldnt wait till all of his kids would move out.

i have never told anyone untill the age of 16. i tried reaching out to my mom, she wouldnt beleive me, i was a 'drug-addict' and 'drug-addicts' lie.
i came out again with it when i was 19, she still didnt beleive me.

there was maybe one friend in my life that beleived me when no one else did.. she witnessed the physical abuse first hand, by being over at my house one time while still living with my parents (age 12) and Marc was drinkin and threw my head into the wall for no reason.

my littlest sister beleives me. i owe her my life. my boyfriend is very supportive as well, even though he doesnt comprehend or understand completely, i still praise him for the support.

throughout my life, my parents have tried to get me back home and try to "fix" me. they got me an appartement, money and food. At the time, it was a nice gesture, BUT its not what i needed help with.

ive always wanted my mother to beleive me, she and my middle sister think its all lies. ive learned how to let go, because i wont get the response i want from my mom. Stress eats at my mom and slowly kills her, i can see it, she doesnt eat, sleep or smile. . so for survival, ill leave her alone. I also dont want to talk to her because shes a tie to him.




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Child Abuse Story From Nicole D

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Jul 26, 2011
Nicole:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

What's happening with your family is not at all unusual when sexual abuse victims speak out and disclose the truth. Sadly, it's not unusual for family members to take the side of the abuser. In part, because it tears at the fabric of what they thought the family was all about; they can't cope with the idea that the abuse really happened. To accept that it actually happened is to accept their role in it, especially an enabling parent, even when that parent enables unknowingly. Sometimes the family members knew or suspected, but they'd rather bury their heads in the sand than to admit what they know, because it means destroying the family dynamic. It doesn't matter to them that the family dynamic is dysfunctional; it only matters that it's familiar. It all serves to re-victimize the person who was abused; and that can be crazy-making. It's understandable that you don't want to speak with your mother under the circumstances. She's part of the problem. A big part. It's true that you'll never know what a father-daughter relationship is; but look at it from another perspective: neither will Marc. He lost that privilege when he sexually abused you. And though you believe you were the only victim, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Marc sexually abused others. Right now what's important is to get help for yourself. Please seek out some type of counselling in order to deal with the sexually abuse, as well as the betrayal and abandonment of your family, especially your mother. You didn't deserve to be abused, Nicole. 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 27, 2011
The Horror
by: Anonymous

Nicole, I can't believe that your mom would abandon you to the so-called care of that sick monster of a father and allow him to beat, offend and berate you 24/7...how dare she! Shame on her for running away from you all the time instead of protecting you from that beast! I am just as disgusted by her apathy towards you; I hate women who choose men over their own children because children should always come first. If that sicko didn't want to be there, he should've had the courage to leave instead of sadistically abusing you. The path that he and your mom chose is inexcusable. Oh, and they're wrong. You are not "nothing"; you are a good person. You are not worthless; you are not useless; you are worthy of love, dignity and respect, all of which you were sadistically denied of. You are not to blame for his sadistic, ignorant behavior nor are you to blame for your mom's uncaring behavior towards you; they are to blame because they chose to abuse and offend you. You were the child; they were the adults; they had all the power and only misused it over you. Oh, and I'm glad that your boyfriend is with you now because he is so sweet for doing that; I just hope that you try counselling and that you look into reporting your so-called parents because abusers don't stop until they're made to stop.

Jul 28, 2011
thank you
by: nicole

Thank you for your supportive comments and advice, I will be reporting marc and possibly my mother as well, but I will get through this, thanks again <3

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