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Barbara
Oct 31, 06 - 8:50 PM |
child abuse
I was abused when I was a child. First of all, I was abused for a year by my brother, so I started locking myself in the bedroom and screaming. Then my mum and dad called in social services because they didn't know what to do about it. The social worker didn't know what to do either, and I didn't tell her about my brother. Then I ran away and my parents reported me missing. They picked me up, but they didn't tell my dad they had found me, they took me to the police station and forced me to make a statement, they wouldn't let me go until they had made me make a statement, and I kept asking them to let me go, but they kept saying I had to make a statement. Then they forced me to have an internal to see if I had had sex, I said I wouldn't do it but they made me have it done. Then they let me go home with my dad. Then after that, Social Services put me into care and they were abusing the kids in there, I know that because I read a suicide letter that another girl had written, and she said so, and there was a little boy standing on the table, I know they were beating the kids there. They didn't sexually abuse me there, but the man in charge punched me so I punched him back and they put me in a cell, and when they let me out I jumped out the bathroom window, but they got me again and put me back in the cell, and I don't even know how long I was there because they left the light on all the time so I got confused, and I had a mental breakdown so they took me to a psychiatric hospital, and I got abused there as well, I was there until I was 14, about a year, and then they let me go home, but I wanted to stay there because it was safer there than anywhere else. I'm 48 now and I suffer from really bad depression and I think I have PTSD but it is really hard to get any councelling, I keep going to the doctors but noone cares really. I feel really really angry about what they did to me, they stole my life, they really did, and got off scot free. And my medical notes have been tampered withy, and my social work records have been lost. But I think they were lost accidentally on purpose, I really do. |
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Victoria Earthrowl
Nov 14th, 2006 - 11:42 AM |
Re: child abuse
Dear Barbara Records are SO easy to lose. I bet they get lost in the department's shredder these days. Kind wishes, Vicki |
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Judy
Dec 12th, 2006 - 1:24 AM |
Re: child abuse
Hi Barbara I was in care and s/abused when i was 11 yrs old. all my papers from social services have "disappeared" I can understand fully how you feel and yes, sometimes it can take years until we realise how much pain we suffered as a child and how it now affects our lives and those around us. Hey Take Care Judy |
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brian
Jan 8th, 2007 - 2:06 PM |
Re: child abuse
hi barbra hope you are well i am a great beliver in everythink what goes around comes around |
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