father figure. alex g

I've always hated talking about this. I know it's pathetic but what I hate even more is knowing there are girls out there in my situation, feeling as alone as I felt and I want them to know that they are never alone. #YouMadeMeCry has helped me in more ways then just getting away from my abuser and I want people to know and for them to not feel so alone.

I was 12 when my dad first started touching me and I didn't really understand what was going on. I was a pretty obedient kid and never really asked too many questions so when he told me to lay back on the bed, I did what I was told. I was stripped bare and raped, so many times that I began to find it hard to find the difference between reality and the times where I would lie there, wishing I was dead.

With threats to my life, I kept what was happening from my mother. For 5 long years, I was humiliated and abused and it was not until I was seventeen, my father away on a business trip did I have the confidence to tell my mother everything. She screamed, cried, slapped me across the face and blamed me for ruining her marriage before she told me to pack my shit and to leave, to which I did gratefully.

I'd been living on the streets for 3 years when I was found by #YMMC and they took me in, listened to my story, and found me a new home. I'm now 22, studying law at university and have just put in an attempt to get justice for the abuse I faced for years. I can now afford a lawyer and have built a case and I hope that the next time I hear about my dad, he's rotting in prison cell, where he belongs.