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In Reply to: My Story posted by Anonymous on April 29, 2004 at 14:42:59:
Please, I beg you, please find an abuse counselor and tell them the whole story. Yes, it will be very painful for your family to face up to it and your dad may even see jail time for allowing such abuse in his house, though I don't know the laws in whatever state you are in, so can't say for sure. However, you need to do this for the sake of even younger brothers and sisters and other young children your brother may come in contact with. It may break up your whole family, but you have to be strong and report this abuse, for the sake of others.
There was a true story that aired on a made for TV movie. This father had abused his daughter when she was little. The mother sort of kept a blind eye because of fear of breaking up her family. Then it somehow leaked out and the daughter was now a young mother herself. The father was being investigated and they needed the testimony of the daughter, but she was afraid to tell the truth, for many of the reasons you stated. However, one day while she left her baby with her father and was taking care of some younger siblings, the young boy was screaming in the bathtub. She figured out that the father was abusing the little boy in the bathtub. With that realization, she went back to her father, grabbed her young baby, now realizing that her own offspring was at risk and her little siblings had been horribly abused, she could no longer be silent. Her father ended up in jail and her mother went to therapy, but no more little children were being abused by this man. So, please, for the sake of other young children, you must tell a therapist, a family counselor, even a school teacher, these people are responsible to report abuse to protect others. They will know what to do.
THEN - you need to start therapy. It will be a hard road, but you will need to work these things out for your own sake, for your own emotional well-being. Please tell me that you will start the process.
In the meantime, please continue talking about it in this forum and use whatever annonymous name you prefer. This is a big step and one which you need to take. Have you ever told anyone else about this?
