Child Abuse Story From Teresa

by Teresa
(California, USA)

Life or Death: 
I was a victim of child abuse. My mom was single after she had me at a very young age. When I was 5 I would be home alone, and everything wasn't bad. I was happy. My mom would come home from work and we would spend time together and everything. When she had to leave on a business trip I stayed with her friends who were a married couple. I didn't like it at all. The man of the women made me watch him pee while the wife was taking a bath and she didn't give a heck! It made me angry that my mom wasn't there.

Later on, when a few months passed, my mommy came back I was glad to see her, but everything changed. She had got married to a man named Tony. He was in the army. After that they had a baby girl, my first sister. I was very happy. But things weren't pleasure.

When Tony left for work I would wake up and get ready for school. I would have to use cold water because my mom said so. I didn't think it was very bad at first but it got even worse. She was being so mean. In the morning before it was time for school I would stand against the wall doing squats for as long as she said. Then when I came home I would wash the floor with a sponge and a bucket of water.

Then one day she was raging mad because she had made these brownies and found my fingerprints on them, but what can I say, I was starving. I would do anything for food, but she didn't understand that. She grabbed me by the neck and threw me down the stairs and screamed at me to get my "ASS UP!" I got up with dizziness. It felt like I was waking up from a coma. I had that feeling when you have a cast on for so long and when you get it taken off you have the springy feeling. It was weird. This kept going on and on. I went to school. My teacher got really suspicious and she couldn't help it. She sent me to the principal's office. Then he asked me questions, and of course I was trained to lie, saying I fell or I got hit by a ball. It was retarded. Then he sent a Child Protective Services lady. She checked my body and had to talk to my mom. When we got to my house you could see the reaction on her face. She was acting weird, acting like nothing happened, that I was fine, but she knew she would get into trouble.

They sent me to the hospital to be checked by a doctor. He asked if I was being hit and I wanted to tell him so bad but I couldn't. I was told to lie. I told him I was hit by a baseball. He told my mom that it was too big of a bruise to be hit by just a baseball, but she just didn't turn herself in. I was praying the Lord to not let me go home by myself with her. I would get my ass kicked so hard but that's what I got. She got mad and sent me to my grandma's.

On my way to the airport I had a cough. She made me sit in the middle seat and each time I coughed she pinched me so hard. I didn't care. I was gonna be saved. When I got there I wanted to run in the plane, and that's what happened. She didn't tell me she would miss me or that she loved me or would contact me. But I was happy. I felt free from all my misery. I was SAFE! at last. I had a good feeling.

I met my grandma, and she was like a mom to me. I loved everything. But I still think that this is all my fault. I was the reason for my mom's reactions. I felt guilty, and like she said, "A MISTAKE". But I feel great and I'm turning 13 and I'm happy I'M HAPPY THAT I KNOW GOD'S WITH ME WHEN I NEED HIM.

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