Stories

Neglected, Abused, and Molested; Ron Couldn’t Escape

by Childhelp

Despite 15 years of horrific and potentially fatal child abuse, Ronald T. tells his real life account of the struggles he endured in his youth and how he copes with his past as an adult. Read More »

Earmarks of an Abused Teenager

by Kaci

I guess it all started the year my father retired from the US Navy. He molested me. I was only 12. Ten months after this happened, my father died from a heart problem complicated by his drinking. That is when the emotional abuse began from my mom. Read More »

Still Living With Pain

by T

My father never said he loved us, I guess he just assumed we knew. It seemed like whatever I did was wrong and deserved a punishment. I've been knocked over by furniture, chained to a tree, hit because something happened and he figured it was my fault. (Many, many times I had nothing to do with whatever it was that set him off.) Read More »

My Son’s Fight for Survival

by Katy

My son was shaken by his biological father when he was three months old. He shook our son so hard that when he got him to the hospital (which was only five minutes away) he did not have a pulse. Read More »

Keep Fighting, Time Heals

by Lee

I look in the mirror and I see someone who was a victim by fate but a survivor by choice and that person is beautiful in her own special way. Read More »

I’m a Bad Kid

by Heavenlea D.

Every day he told me I was a bad kid. I brought this on myself. Why couldn't I behave? Why couldn't I just do what he told me? Why did I have to look like my mother? Read More »

Suppressed for Too Long

by DB

I felt like I wasn�t allowed to do things because he wanted me for himself, and all my mom could see was that he was overprotective of me. But he did it again, I was 16. Read More »

Constantly Afraid

by Amie

I'm grateful I was taken away. I do still feel empty from all the neglect but I survived and now have a better life. Read More »

Nearly a Decade Later

by Brenda

I think the last time she hit me was late late elementary  school.   Not long after my mom stopped, my dad started abusing me. Read More »

I Believed Her

by Brittney

It took me a long time to be able tell  anyone what was going on. Social workers would come and my  mother would promise that she wouldn't do it again if we didn't tell . She would always say she was sorry and that she wouldn't do it again. Read More »

My Son’s Fight For Survival

by Katy

He shook our son so hard that when he got him to the hospital (which was only five minutes away) he did not have a pulse. Through the nurses and doctors hands, God brought my son back to life. Read More »

Roped to the Bed

by Crystelle

Oh, how I wished someone would find me, to look through the dirty glass and see a young child roped to a bed in a brown paneled room. The thin rope cuts into my wrist like fishing wire. The pain is so unreal; I don't feel like I exist. My eyes draw heavy, but I am unable to close them in fear of the unknown. Noises race from down the hall, the screaming and shouting of adults, in wonders of what could happen next. A woman with blood shot eyes steps towards the bed. Read More »

A Little Piece of Me

by Karina

I looked up to my big brother, but I knew, or I felt that what he was doing to me was wrong. The one time I actually fought back, it didn�t go so well. Read More »

A Family Of Abusers

by Jessie B.

I was sexually, physically, and emotionally abused until I was 19. I know what it is like to have my voice silenced and life threatened. There is always hope. Read More »