Reply #31: It's appalling that she had to go to court in the first place.

[Kailassa]

If any pregnant girl does not want their parents told, we should believe them and let them have an abortion, in my opinion.

I'm speaking from the experience of having been raped in my own family from before I remember to when I got pregnant at 12. My parents had blamed me all along for what my 4 older brothers were doing, and used to refer to me, in front of me, as "the slut", instead of speaking directly to me. My mother was a pedophile who had also done bad things to me, and who had insisted she had to lovingly wash my brothers genitals for them even after they reached puberty. My father never questioned the treatment I was getting and enjoyed humiliating me himself, and would knock me unconscious when I tried to tell him what was happening.

When they discovered I was chucking up each morning they got a packet of tablets from the local doctor, who I believe knew what they were for, and locked me in a bright room not letting me sleep or eat until I took them. But then they said I was not to take them for 2 weeks, and I was pathetically grateful for their kindness in letting me live another 2 weeks. At that age I still loved them all and believed it was right for me to die because anything else would hurt my family.
I found out only a few years back when I cashed in the life insurance they had taken out on me that they had taken it out in those 2 weeks.

I miscarried, due, I guess, to the stress, but I believed it a miracle and delightedly told my parents, and could not understand the cold hatred my news was met with.

Last week my father died, and I've been getting hateful messages from relatives for not being there at the funeral, and not giving my good kind christian mother the support she deserves even though she loves me so much. I have told some, to warn them not to leave their children alone with my mother, but they believe it's all lies, and my nieces who have been abused by her have learnt that no-one except for the mothers of 2 will believe them either.