March 28th, 2016

My Story

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Rape is defined as the unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim. (Kentucky Revised Statutes 510) The state of Kentucky...
March 26th, 2016

Still Rape

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I’m sharing my story because I have a daughter and I know with her beautiful little face and bubbly personality, she could become a victim in an instant. I want her to know her mother is a survivor and I will walk through hell and back to protect her from...
March 26th, 2016

First Time

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When I was 14 years old I was raped by the friend of my friends older sister. He was 19. We went to a party, being underage we were offered alcohol by him and his friends, however we couldn’t get the drinks from the bar ourselves. Because of this I...
March 25th, 2016

Read This Please

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AS For those who’ve had a HORRID PAST Please I ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ: DO NOT EVER THINK OF KILLING YOURSELF EVERRRR PLS DON’T DO IT! It does suck because the world today is messed up, Ignorant and seems we have no one left to trust That’s true but that...
March 25th, 2016

Still Need Help

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I was dating this guy that my family had a lot of connections with. He came over to my house one day. I was 20 years old and I am now 26. It started out as just kissing but he went to far and the next thing I know he...
March 25th, 2016

So Many Years to Remember

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It took me so many years to remember. I was at a party. I went with a girl friend. I was immediately offered drinks. I accepted. I don’t even think I finished it. Guys were overly sweet to me. It only took 20 minutes and I felt awesome! I thought,...
March 25th, 2016

Tormented

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I lost my virginity when I was 14, I was with my best friend at the time, we met up with one of her friends who was 21. he had problems I even think he was on drugs I’m not entirely sure. Anyways they both decided that it was my...
March 25th, 2016

Sexual Assault

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When in the military I was sexually assaulted and not believed while in the army national guard. Three guys held me down as a woman shoved a sex toy up my anus. they chained me down in the chair while I was drunk and drugged by something they made me...
March 25th, 2016

First Date

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I was 15, Freshman year was almost over. A sophomore guy asked me on a date. I knew this guy from around so I said yes. We went out to dinner at Olive Garden and then walked around downtown for a bit. We got in his truck and he said...
March 25th, 2016

Lifetime of Abuse

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I have experienced horrific tragedy in my life. I came into a world with a mother that wanted me not as well, hated herself so she had no choice but to hate me, she suffered from severe un-diagnosed mental illness, she was mentally, physically and spiritually abusive. My earthly father...
March 24th, 2016

Breaking the Silence

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I was 18 years old. It was my freshman year in college, I was studying abroad in Europe, away from my family. My best friend at the time and I went out drinking. I was the only one in my crowd who was still a virgin, and I have dated...
March 24th, 2016

Think You Know

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I had a boyfriend for already five months, who I loved and did anything for. Sure we’d make-out once or twice we were raging with hormones but there’s a time and a place for everything. It was my first time alone with just him on a date and we were...
March 24th, 2016

I Accepted My Past

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I don’t remember excatly when or how it was happened. I was 5-6 years old, I lived a little village and with others childrens I guess we played in the neighborhood. I remember there was in a fields a hut ( like we do when we are young ). I...
March 24th, 2016

More Than Once

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I would like to share my story with you. It all started around age two when my grandfather started molesting me, then taught my uncle to do the same The whole time growing up, I really thought it.was all a dream, till one night when I was 18 I heard...
March 24th, 2016

Rape By My Husband

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Linor, watched Brave Miss World last night and was still shocked by the many rapes to women all over the world (later watched miner women in Bolivia). Admire your bravery in public, your youth and determination in looking for justice, speaking out, removing the blame of the victims and the...
March 24th, 2016

Predators

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My story starts 33 years ago. My mother was a young mother, and was quite selfish. Not in a horrible way, but since she was only 18 when she had me, she seemed to easily fall for words of men. Most of the time, they would flatter her, get her...
March 23rd, 2016

Afraid of the Truth

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i’m 28 years old and have been in trauma therapy for close to three years since its happen, and i still have a very hard time speaking about it. it happened while i was in israel for a 2 week vacation during college. i had had a few drinks and...
March 23rd, 2016

An Abnormal Reaction

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So this entire story starts at the beginning of this summer. Before the summer started I had been dating around and seeing a few guys casually but there was no one I liked. All of these endeavors were super innocent as we would do things like go to the movies...
March 23rd, 2016

I’m Unbroken and So Are You

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About a year and a half ago, I was raped. In 2013, my first job was a lifeguard at a Boy Scout Camp near my home in Salisbury, Maryland. My aquatics director was a guy named, let’s just call him CJ, and he seemed alright. The day before I left...
March 23rd, 2016

A Lifetime

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My unfortunate store started when i was 8 yrs old. My mother had just married a man she had only known a very short time (5 months). He started molesting me within days of the wedding and slowly progressed to rape. I was to scared to tell anyone until i...
March 23rd, 2016

Molested While Sleeping

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Hello my name is Christian Helen Alvarado, When I was 7 years old my mother and father had Separated and were filing for divorce and my mother was fighting for child custody. I live with my father for 2 years in the time they were separated . It was me...
March 23rd, 2016

Sexual Assault

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Oh goodness this is hard. I was 13 years old at the time, my “best-friend” was spending the night at my house. She convinced me that we should sneak out of the house to meet her boyfriend at his house (right up the street- he was considerably older than us)....
March 23rd, 2016

I Was 10

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Me, my mom, dad and little brother moved into a new house and right away became friends with my next-door neighbor. He had a daughter around my age at the time and we became best friends. Both our families were so close that we were always at each other’s houses....
March 22nd, 2016

The Courtroom

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“You shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death-the young woman because she did not scream for help.” Deuteronomy 22:23 I thought of these words while I got up on stand that day. The lawyer’s eyes all on me. My DA’s question...
March 22nd, 2016

Unlucky

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The first time I was raped. I was 18, I never thought of it as rape until recently, but I guess it was. I’d been drinking and there just wasn’t a clear line of consent. I was too out of it to say yes or no. And the guy had...
March 22nd, 2016

It Wasn’t Love

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I met Adam for the first time when I was 13, by that time he was 16 and we started walking our dogs together a few nights. After the first week of hanging out i decided to finally accept his offer and watch a movie with him at his place....
March 22nd, 2016

Gang Rape

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Three years ago I was gang raped by three men, I was 13. It all happened when my mum was sectioned because she has bipolar and I had to live with my auntie for a while. It was just before Christmas and my auntie wanted to go to a friends...
March 22nd, 2016

New Years Eve Party

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It happened on mew years eve and i went to a party with my cousin chris and his girlfriend vanda. So when i got to the party there was so many liquor and then vanda asked me if i wanted any. i said no because i’m 16 then i said...
March 22nd, 2016

Living With Us

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I grew up in a very happy home. I loved my parents, siblings, relatives and whoever my mother brought into the home. I have 5 siblings (one is adopted). I have two older brothers, one older sister and a younger sister. From when I was young my mother would help...
March 22nd, 2016

The Day Everything Changed

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I’m not a very good writer but I feel I need to share my story. When I was in high school I was dealing with a lot of problems at home, my parents were fighting a lot and my older sister and I had to take care of our five...
March 22nd, 2016

My Childhood

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I always wanted a good family and friends. I wanted to run and play with other children. I wanted to be happy. But most of all, I wanted to be loved. It started with the basement. I was 5 years old. Daddy said that I was a bad girl. I...
March 21st, 2016

My Life Changed

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As Linor was pointing out, rape can happen to anyone. However, more often than not, the most vulnerable are preyed upon, children, women and men who were weakened by other sorts of abuse or difficulties in their lives. I need to write my story, and it will be long, with...
March 21st, 2016

Rape

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Hi guys, I’m currently 16 years old, and I am a victim of 2 sexual assaults, and one rape. Sexual assault #1: I was in grade 8, going to school in a small town, which meant I knew everyone. I was dedicated to my agricultural subjects and I tried to...
March 21st, 2016

Neighbor

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When I was 15, a man and his daughters moved across the street from me. I became friends with the girls over a month or so and it got to the point where we were so close we’d just enter each other’s houses like they were our own. One day...
March 21st, 2016

Child Abuse

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I was abused as a child. He was my parents friend, and his children were my friends. He wanted me to touch his penis, one time he was supposed to drive me to his kids school but instead he drove to an isolated area near the forest. Then he pulled...
March 21st, 2016

My Uncle

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I was fourteen. I had spent the night with my Aunt and soon to be uncle. I was almost asleep on the couch downstairs when he came down and sat beside me. He began touching my butt and other areas. Eventually he stripped me down and started doing things to...
March 21st, 2016

Freshman on Campus

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It was my freshman year on campus. I was always shy and quiet but I always attracted guys. The wrong guys. I wanted that fairytale love. After my first big rivalry game on campus I said goodnight to my friends and started my walk back to my dorm. I met...
March 20th, 2016

45 Years of Being the Victim

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By 4 the molestation began by my younger brothers father…I told nobody..by 8 it was still happening…I remember being so afraid that when I was asked..I denied it..what hurt the most is believing my mother knew..this molestation continued until he raped me at 11..afraid alone and in a new state...
March 20th, 2016

Started With My Father

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I apologize for how long this is and how graphic if graphic descriptions are going to be hard for you consider this your warning to stop now. However, I wanted to be frank about what I’ve done and what’s happened to me. I don’t want to pretend things weren’t the...
March 20th, 2016

Backpacking

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I set off backpacking when I was 37 with great excitement. I didn’t realize that in addition to seeing some of the great sites the world has to offer I would also be sexually assaulted numerous times. In fact sexual assault was so commonplace when I travelled throughout South America...
March 19th, 2016

Not Really Love

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I met Adam for the first time when I was 13, by that time he was 16 and we started walking our dogs together a few nights. After the first week of hanging out I decided to finally accept his offer and watch a movie with him at his place....
March 17th, 2016

Raped By A Registered Sex Offender

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I was 40 years old when it happened to me. I was a virgin because of my faith and beliefs about not having sex outside of marriage and I have never been married. I’m also physically disabled–I was using a walker at the time and waiting for my insurance to...
March 17th, 2016

My Abusive Ex-Boyfriend

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I was in a relationship with a guy from 2 days before my 14th birthday to 4 month before my 15th birthday. All together we were together for a total of 8 months. In that time, I was constantly being hit and whenever he would get high, he would use...
March 17th, 2016

Choir Camp

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When I was young I was in this children’s choir. Every summer they had an overnight at a camp grounds to prepare for the next season. The first time I went there, I was 11. I went with my best friend at the time who had just gotten new glasses....
March 16th, 2016

Started As a Child

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I was molested by my mother from the time I can remember (around age 5) until age 12. My father passed away when I was 3 and I never met him, so it was always just my mom and I. We lived with my grandparents in a separate wing of...
March 16th, 2016

My Life, My Achievement

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In January 2010, on the 25th, started chatting and having fun with my friends. However something unexpected happened, and I was hurt by a person without heart. I was sexually assaulted. In the following years, he could not go out or home for fear of being teased by friends and...
March 15th, 2016

Ashamed Afraid Angry Grey

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When I was 19 years old, I got my first job working in a fast food restaurant. I was so happy to have gotten the job. I was so proud to surprise my father with this news as he’d helped me in the past with work and this time I’d...
March 15th, 2016

I was 13

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I was 13 when I was sexually assaulted. I didn’t really know what was happening, really. He was my best friends older brother (he was 14) and we always shared his bed, while my best friend slept on the couch in his room. I had a huge crush on him...
March 14th, 2016

The Terrible 4

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It was the summer after my high school graduation and my parents went on vacation and told me I could have my close friends over for a small party. They knew everyone that was going to be there, except for one person, who I’ll call J, that I was dating...
March 14th, 2016

Silenced But Not Forever

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i have always heard of rape stories never once did i ever think it would happen to me.. what hurts most is when its a person so close to you someone you trusted so much… someone you considered a brother…i grew up with him i didnt know he would suddenly...
March 14th, 2016

Ex Best Friend

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I was at high school a week before my 18th birthday, we have a late class cancelled that week and as my bestfriend was texting as I have not seen him in so long he asked me to come over to play grand theft auto. I was so excited as...
March 12th, 2016

Years in Denial

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My story starts out as someone who moved almost 3,000 miles away from home to start their lives in Miami. I was very young and moved with my very best gay male friends. We found a great place right on the water. We were living the dream at 23. I...
March 12th, 2016

Hurt and Anger

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I was 9 years old when it all started, my mom started working in a new restaurant and would leave at 5am and come back at 3pm, and my “father” didn’t work for he had a lawsuit that didn’t let him work. It was random when my “father” started to...
March 12th, 2016

Siblings

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I was 10 when my mom got married her and my dad were together for 15 years then all of a sudden broke up when I was about 6. I was there only child and my mom was pregnant by my step dad who had an older son that came...
March 11th, 2016

Scared to close my eyes

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Everything was normal up until October 21st 2015. I was attending a school near my mother’s house and not to mention this was a alternative school so there was older people in my classes, I was the youngest I am only 17 years old. On this very day I was...
March 11th, 2016

I Was Raped

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On February 15th 2016, family day, I was feeling very sick and feverish so in my state of mind at the time I felt I needed to go for a quick walk around where I live. I was walking along the dog park listening to music and someone wrapped a...
March 11th, 2016

A Big Man

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I was walking home from school one afternoon when two guys stopped a car and forced me in. They drove me to a wooded area then started flipping a quarter to see which one got to go first. I kept trying to get away, but they would not let me....
March 10th, 2016

Sexual Abuse

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I was 15 years old when I was sexually abused by a friends uncle. I was hanging out with my friend as we often did one night, we were only 15, but we had gotten a hold of a couple beers that night and were just having some innocent fun....
March 10th, 2016

Rape

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Hello, excuse me for my english but I’m Spanish, so I hope you can understand me. When I was 15 years old I was walking to the beach with a couple of friends, and it was so hot I was tired …when somebody said we can take a shortcut, I...
March 10th, 2016

Betrayed By My Husband

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I had been verbally physical abuse and sexually assaulted by my husband Michael in such a way and so many times but he intimidated me always, that I had never said anything cause am afraid of him. This past Christmas couldn’t took it anymore, and decided I will confront him...
March 9th, 2016

Once Again

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At age 8, I was raped and beaten by my alcoholic grandfather. My mom having a mental illness was in the hospital so I had to live with my grandparents. My grandmother was sweet but she left for work 5 am and got home by 11pm. When she was gone...
March 9th, 2016

Playing Games

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“Let’s play a game.” is what started it all as far as I could remember. I was born to a well-off family and raised with maids and nannies. My parents would leave the house for works weeks at a time with me, my younger sister and younger brother left to...
March 8th, 2016

Girl Raped By a Girl

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Hi Linor, hi everybody, I was looking for a movie to watch tonight on Netflix and I found Linor’s documentary by coincidence (does coincidence exist? Linor would say that’s it’s God path, she is maybe right). I have been very touched by her project, her story, what she made with...
March 8th, 2016

Abuse Continued

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My story differs from a lot of stories here in that, there was no actual penetration (unless it happened to me during my sleep, which I sometimes wonder). I was molested by my mother’s ex-husband. I must have been around 7, 8 or 9. This “man” lived in the house,...
March 8th, 2016

My Daughter and I Both

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My story: When I was six years old, I was raped by a nine-year-old boy who lived down the street. His mother walked in on the act and yelled at us to stop. She told me to put on my clothes and that I could never come back over to...
March 7th, 2016

Raped and Molested

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This is long, bare with me, please. From what I remember, it started when I was 6 continued until the summer going into 6th grade. I was molested almost every night by my step father (who was drinking and smoking at the time). One night, I was raped. My stepdad...
March 7th, 2016

My Husband Was My Attacker

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After stupidly falling for a lie to get me back in his grasp, I spent 3 months being held in a motel room against my will by my extremely abusive husband. 3 months of abuse that turned quickly into near nightly sexual assault. Finally, after realizing I was pregnant and...
March 7th, 2016

Mine Was Different

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It’s still difficult for me to say I was raped. I only said it out loud for the first time a few years ago. I still wasn’t sure if that was the correct term. I wasn’t forcefully taken or physically abused. I never considered it that. I never really talked...
March 7th, 2016

Doesn’t Define Me

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The lowest part of my life was between ages 13 to 19 years old. My siblings and I were placed into different homes because of family issues that I will not get in to on here, and we were all separated from our parents. I moved in with my best-friends...
March 6th, 2016

Raped By a Friend

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I was 17. A virgin. Very naive. In college away from home for the first time. Grieving terribly for my mom who had passed away 2 months earlier. I was living in a coed dorm. A group of us – male and female – hung out together. I went to...
March 6th, 2016

Piano Teacher

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It all happened 7 months ago. My piano coach came over one day to help me with my recital. An my mom and dad were out of town so it was just me and my piano teacher. At first everything was cool then we decided to take a little break....
March 6th, 2016

Childhood Trauma and Rape

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Ever since I can remember I was raped and molested by my dad and my cousins. They both were into some really bad things. They ended up pimping me out to their clients to get money, I was beaten, raped, forced to do very disturbing things.they would take me and...
March 5th, 2016

Together, We Are Brave

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March 5th, 2016

My Life

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I was 5 years old and my brother he was 13. He asked me to come in his room. He didn’t rape me but got me do everything else. It took almost 12 years to tell my parents over facebook post how how I was feeling. — Kimberly, age 20
March 5th, 2016

My Only Brother

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My parents were always out so it would just be me and my brother which was fine he took care of me and we were close so I never thought he would hurt me or tell me anything wrong so I trusted him. My mom went to work her night...
March 4th, 2016

Sexual Abuse

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i haven’t had a good upbringing. my mum left when i was 2 and left with me my step sister dad who isn’t related to me. (at this point i never knew) when i was about 7 he started to do stuff, touching me and my friends and making me...
March 4th, 2016

Circumstances Collided That Night

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I was 16, and a sophomore in high school. I had developed a close friendship with Jesse, a junior. He was nice and cool and I had started to develop feelings for him, and I’m pretty sure the feeling was mutual. I had had an extremely rough year that year,...
March 3rd, 2016

My Daughter

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Hello I’m Jack, I just finished watching Brave Miss World.I must say I cried like a baby. I wanted to share with you my daughters story of being molested at age 6 by and older girl who would visit her grandparents who lives across the street from our home. To...
March 3rd, 2016

I Saved Myself

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I felt lonely and isolated in my new job. I knew no one well and i didn’t fit in. It was posh, my management was very strict. One night I came into work and everybody was talking about a staff party which was being held that night. Nobody had told...
March 3rd, 2016

Remembering

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I can’t remember only give an estimated age when I was molested but what I can most likely believe I was raped. They say you don’t start having long term memory’s until the age of 3 and beyond. So that’s why I think it was at the age 3 to...