Child Abuse Story From Paloma
by Paloma
(San Antonio, Texas, USA)
When I was 16, I thought I was in love. It started out beautifully as in every relationship and I loved him. After moving in with me, we had a bunch of problems.
We would always fight and he would treat me bad. He would go to the club with his friends and then would come home drunk and would hit me.
I couldn't ever escape because nobody was ever home for me to run to when he did this. I never told my mom because she would murder him. He always thought that having sex made everything better.
It didn't matter where we were at, he would get drunk, and if I looked at him the wrong way or did anything he thought was bad he would slap me or hit me. He would put my self-esteem down and call me a whore, bitch, and just ugly things.
I was 17 years old when I got pregnant by him. Still he would hurt me. I would leave him repeatedly, but I would always fall for his words and promises. There was once when I was pregnant when one of my friends died and I went to his funeral. He went crazy and hit me like a psycho!!
When I had our baby, things changed. He fell in love with his daughter. He knew that if he did anything to me I would leave him. He just wanted his daughter.
Now I'm 3 months pregnant and once again he's hurting me. I'm leaving him already. I know I have no future with him and I just don't love him anymore. I cry every night because, even though I've only gone into brief detail here, he's done horrible things to me.
I can't anymore. I feel tortured to have to be with him. I hope that other women in the same situation can speak out and tell police or somebody who can help them.
We can together help one another and protect our children from sick-minded people. We can do it.
Note from Darlene: Though this story depicts domestic violence, I have chosen to include it in this category because it also depicts Witnessing the abuse of a parent, which is a form of emotional child abuse.
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