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Strawberry Letter 23: My Step Dad Won’t Stop The Abuse

Dear Shirley and Steve, ever since I was 12, my stepfather started touching me, kissing on me, making me touch him in private places, and more. I try to turn to my mom for help but she continues to cover for him and tells me to never bring it up again or they will put my sister and I in foster care and we will never see each other again.

Eventually it kept happening, so I moved with my dad. But even when I go to visit, he continues to do it. I haven’t been back since I got married and had kids. But I am concerned for my little sister’s safety. She tells me how he looks at her in ways that makes her feel uncomfortable and one night when she went to sleep fully clothed, she woke up with her pants and panties off and he was standing over her bed.

One summer when I went to visit my sister, he was beating my mother for watching TV, when he told her not to turn the TV on. I tried to help her but she jumped on me for getting on him and trying to help her. Another time when he was beating on her so bad, my sister ran to help her, he attacked my sister while my mom stood there and watched. When the cops got there my mom said there was no assault and that my sister assaulted him so they left.

Steve and Shirley, this has been going on for years and my mom continues to let him beat her and abuse her children. We are really scared. After reading this you can see why we don’t have anyone to turn to. Can you help us?