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Child Abuse Story From Stacey Surviving Girl

by Stacey
(Orlando, Florida, USA)




It all started when I was about three years old.. My father was deaf and my mother had left us. My dad was always high so he never really was sober. One day I went into the bathroom to use it and my dad was sitting there waiting. I turned around to leave because I thought he needed to use the bathroom but he grabbed me and told me it was ok. He then began to take his pants off and made me give him oral. He told me to pretend like it's a lolipop. After that day, the things he would do with me would get worse and worse for 7 years. He touched me. He would come in my room at night and just throw himself on top of me and just touch me and preform sexual acts. I would lay there innocent and helpless screaming for help and for him to stop. I knew he couldn't hear me. So I would punch him and hit him until he stopped. He would always curse me out and told me I was worthless. It got to the point to where he would force me to take showers with him. He even started molesting my cousins and began favoring them, because one of them liked it. He gave her gifts all the time. Cause she was a good girl. As for me, he always begged and pleaded for me not to tell. As him being my father and ONLY parent hurts. At ten is when I stood up for myself and told him to Stop or else. He stoppped then. Now I'm 16 years old, living with him. I feel as it never happened. I always wonder if I'm normal because my past doesn't haunt me. It just makes me feel a little uncomfortable around my dad. So I dont wear short shorts or even bathingsuits around him. I don know if I completely forgave him or I just learnt to deal with it. I think of myself being pretty strong enough to be a survior. I went all these years without therapy or any moral support. NOBODY knows, not my closet friends or family. It's a secrete that lies between me, my father and my two girl cousins.me and my father have a pretty close relationship now, we argue a lot and I know he holds regret. He goes to a deaf church and says he's prayed god for forgiveness. I just hope someday I'll be able to share this with my family. I am blessed to have this tough sheild that helps me live each day with this dark cruel secrete.






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Sep 10, 2011
Stacey - Part 1:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

Speaking from personal experience, the shield you refer to is basically made of compact sand. Right now you believe that shield protects you, but as you move through the various ages and stages of your life, that shield will erode, dry up and eventually slip through your fingers. What happened to you will come back to haunt you, much as you do not believe that right now. You will be triggered; and that triggering can and will lead to a multitude of problems. Intimate relationships will be a huge challenge. Trust will likely not be present. Your ability to hold a job may be compromised. And if and when you have your own children...well, then things will get very complicated. The sexual abuse at the hands of a father whose job is to protect you and keep you safe from harm is a major betrayal. The fact that your father no longer sexually abuses you could mean that you are now too old for him, disgusting as that is. Pedophiles prefer very young children. He has other victims; that is typical of pedophiles. As long as all of his victims continue to keep the secret, he can and will continue to find other victims. You see, Stacey, sex offenders do not stop until they are made to stop; that means someone has to break the silence.

See Part 2 below:

From Victim to Victory, a memoir
Darlene Barriere
Webmaster: www.child-abuse-effects.com
author. speaker. survivor. coach
From Victim to Victory, a memoir

Sep 10, 2011
Stacey - Part 2:
by: Darlene Barriere - Webmaster

I cannot stay mum about the comment you made about the one victim liking it. You do not know what you do not know. There is a dynamic present between the abused and the abuser. Your father TOOK away innocence, and he used the youth and vulnerabilities of his victims against them. He manipulated and groomed his victims. Do not allow yourself to put adult values on decisions that children make, decisions that are not really theirs when someone with power misuses that power. It is common for pedophiles to give gifts to their victims, and it is natural for the victim to accept those gifts and keep the secret. Of course the victim would like the gift, but victims DO NOT like being abused. Do not make the mistake of putting the blame for the sexual abuse on ANY victim. What is really important now is to tell, because if you and the other victims stay silent, there WILL BE MORE VICTIMS. And that is something that is very difficult to live with, Stacey. Please contact Child Help at 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453) in order to talk to someone. They are staffed 24/7 with professionally trained counsellors who will listen to you. They are not a reporting agency, although they can help you through the process of reporting if you decide to disclose the abuse. Visit their website by copying & pasting the following URL into your browser: http://www.childhelp.org/get_help

You did not deserve to be sexually 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

Sep 10, 2011
strength
by: Carrie

Hi Stacey,

I just wanted to say that Darlene is right about that wall made of sand. I thought for years that I was fine and didn't have any affects like others in my shoes did. What I didn't know for one is that I had many, such as depression, cutting, social phobia, failing in school...etc. As I went through the years, more and more came up, and now that I'm married it becomes more complicated. Thankfully I have a loving understanding compassionate supportive Man...but...most in our situation end up with abusers as that is what we think we deserve. I was with many before my husband. You may think you don't need help and support but you do. Please give yourself the very best and reach out for help, so your future is not robbed as your past has been. Take care of you, you are worth it!

Oct 13, 2011
my suggest...
by: Anonymous

I think you should talk to someone when that happens and I am sure you will find your mother and maybe live with your mother because if I were you, I will leave my father and stay with family who will never hurt me and find my mother then start live with my mother....


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