Lisa Walker
“…my younger sister, me and my mother moved back to Georgia where she married my violent alcoholic stepfather when I was three years old… I knew of the beating I would get. Not a spanking...a beating… He slammed me against the wall when I tried to make him stop and he left.”
Patricia Fennell (1)
“As it was, my father was always verbally abusive towards us and when he got really mad, could be physically abusive too. His motto was, ‘Hit first and ask questions later.’”
Susan Stafford
“My first near-death encounter was when I was around the age of ten when my mother was married to my step-father… he had sexually bitten me so badly I thought I was never going to survive to into the next day.”
Timothy Abraham
“My father, therefore, became wrathful over my Islamic radicalism and thoughtlessly punched me in the teeth. Today my front tooth is a fake one.”
Andrea Do Santos
“…my father was physically and emotionally abusive to my mother, my brother and me. Mother was not very strong emotionally and suffered from a mental illness, and because of this, I felt she was never there for me.”
Ricardo Santana
“He got angry and hit me on the head with a monkey wrench. I had to go to the hospital, and my Mother was told that I came very close, at the "borderline", of becoming mentally retarded. My Mother was told that I would be 'slow' for the rest of my life.”
Lenore Barnhill
“…but those fights with my mohter were (and still are) the worst....I mean it would be like a physical fight along with those emotional pains and she'd say stuff to me that would just... wow... It hurt…”
Dusty Donnay
“Kind of funny now, sitting here in my Moms house. Everything sure has changed. After all the horrible beatings and terrible childhood, I just love her… for some reason after being so abused as a child; I found it impossible to hit women or kids, my only redeeming quality.”
Abby Conley
“As my life unfolded my parents abandoned me after years of emotional, mental and physical abuse.”
Miriam Passmore
“She had no outlet for the fear, shame,and hurt she had experienced. Molested by a family friend. Someone she trusted dearly.”
Terri Hall
“Terri grew up being passed from home to home, guardian to guardian. After several encounters of physical and sexual abuse, by age fifteen Terri felt alone, unloved and rejected.”