Too Scared To Speak Out (Introduction)

Why is it that a child is always the last person anyone ever believes about incest? I have asked myself this same question over and over again, at least a thousand times. Still I have not found an answer to my question. A child is sexually abused by a total stranger and everyone is there to help. The family is totally outraged that a stranger, a sick perverted person has done this to their sweet innocent child. The police are there to make an arrest, the courts are ready and waiting to prosecute this person to the fullest extent of the law. The media covers the story from the beginning to end. No matter what happens no stone has been left unturned to make sure this stranger is put away where he or she cannot hurt another innocent child again.

Yet if this same sweet innocent child is being sexually abused by say their father, or by someone else in her family no one believes her. The child's entire family acts or pretends that the whole thing is not true. They even try saying that the child is lying, or looking for attention. There is no possible way that this could ever happen in their happy little family. This helpless child is told by her very own mother that she is nothing more than a good for nothing little lying tramp. The child is also told by her mother to keep her lying mouth shut, and never say another word about it ever again, or she would wash her mouth out with soap.

A majority of the time the child is threatened by the abuser. He threatens the child by telling them that no one will ever believe them, that they will be taken away and put into a home for naughty children, and if by chance they are not taken away they will be sorry for even opening up there mouth. The child knows all to well what that meant. The child had heard those words too many times before, and the abuser always kept his word.

The police are very seldom ever called, this is because the family usually does not want anyone else to know what is happening in their home. The majority of the time when the police are called it is often to late for justice to be served the damage is done. The child usually by this time is so scared, to say anything let alone trust someone. The threats are so ingrained by this time that she is too scared to talk to anyone . The victim is often to scared to speak out about the never ending nightmare that they have been living in for most of their life. The child begins to feel there is no hope and that they're trapped like an animal in a cage with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.

The child has tried running away, hundreds of times or more but the police would find the child and take them back home. The police really could not have done anything to help this child because they had no clue what was really going on in the home behind closed doors. All that could have come to a halt if she'd only had the courage to tell someone that her daddy was hurting her night after night. Courage was something that she lacked considering what she has been told night after night by the abuser and her family. The child was trapped by the abusers words and threats with no escape insight. Every time the police would take the child back, the child knows deep down inside that in all likely hood she will be assaulted again by her father that night. This was par for the course, and the child knows this. The child knows deep down inside of her heart that one day this would all come to an end, the child would be old enough to leave and never come back. The freedom the child had wanted seemed so far away and so far out of reach. She felt as if time was running out , more and more every day that passed she felt that there was no one on this earth to turn to not even her mother. She had always looked up to her mother , but now she knew she was all alone. The child's idea of a mother was someone a child should be able to go to for help no matter what was wrong. The ultimate betrayal had happened. The mother had turned against the child, it seemed everyone had turned there back on this child, when she needed help the most. She had been betrayed by all, she knew no one would help end this nightmare.

My name is Jeanette and I am a survivor of incest, a victim of the never ending nightmare, and this is my story of how I was abused for years as a child.