why didnt you call the cops or cps?
how about this: when i was 9 and my stepdad beat me until i passed out and i told my friends at school, my teacher over heard and i was interviewed by cps. they also went to my house when i was at school. when i got home, my step father was waiting on the couch, and told me who visited him that day. he told me if i ever snitched again he would beat me to within an inch of my life.
how about this: my mother locked me out of the house when i was 14 and when i cried so loud the neighbors called the cops, the cop told me i should have been respectful of my mother who was trying to sleep.
how about this. the demon you know is less scary than the demon you donāt.
children in abused households are raised to fear the idea of being taken away. children in abusive households see that help makes things worse.
dont you ever blame an abuse victim for not going to the authorities.
yes this okay to reblog!
Also, a lot of abused children donāt realize that theyāre being abused or the extent of the abuse. Itās their normal. Their minds are formed by their experiences and if all theyāve known is one existence it can be difficult to recognize that itās wrong
I had a student who was the most scarred person I have ever seen. His mother would cut him open regularly (and some of those scars were from profound self-injury and suicide attempts). She would poison him so regularly that he reacted to his first meal after adjudication as though it were mana from Heaven. He would barricade his bedroom door, crawl out of his window, and sleep on the roof when he was especially sure she meant to kill him that night. ("She might still get me, but it could be enough warning to give me a fighting chance.") Whenever he would run away (bloody, shoeless and coatless in the winter, all of 11), the police would bring him right back, because she could talk a good game. He would be adamant (and eloquent because this kid was very literally a genius) explain what she was doing every time he tried to get to safety. This happened until she literally tried to murder him with a knife. He managed to get the knife away from her, non-fatally stab her in the face, and immediately ran somewhere safe and called the police... who had him sentenced for attempted murder. CPS never even spoke to her. In the course of being his teacher (I did not meet him until after he was sentenced, or I would have relentlessly screamed until someone saved this kid; he was safely away from her at this time), he basically confessed that someone sexually assaulted him. I called the authorities and was interviewed by a police officer that day. THREE MONTHS LATER, the authorities spoke to him and said, "Well, we don't see evidence of it, so we aren't going to do anything about it." And they didn't see evidence because the officer didn't bother speaking to the kid or photographing the apparent evidence of the assault. Fucking useless.
