Child Abuse Story From Valerie1

by Valerie
(Spokane, Washington, USA)

Growing up with 'him': 
Ever since I was a young kid, I was harassed by my father. I was a very hard to control girl, very hyper active and extremely stubborn, and my father could not handle me. So, when I went into preschool, the beatings started.

The first one that started it was when I told him no when he asked me to come in. He dragged me inside, and beat me until I could not cry anymore. After every beating, he would tell me to clean up the blood and then he would go downstairs. When my mother came home, I would hide in my room because I did not want her to see my bruised face and body. I put make up on to cover them up. Then I went to school. The beatings became regular after I came home from school.

I'm not sure if anybody suspected it. I didn't want anyone to know how much of a 'bad girl' I was. I thought I deserved the beatings, and always kept quiet about them.

When I started getting older, he hit me harder and with objects instead of just his fists. I remember once when he was on a drug rage when I was in the fifth grade. He slammed my head to the wall and I can't remember much about that time. I just remember when I woke I was covered in blood. After that, I hit him with a spatula so hard his nose bled. The beatings stopped, but he verbally abused me. He never would have touched Amie, but he would have if I didn't push her out of the house until our mother came home.

I am 17 now, and still have nightmares from it.

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