Hailee Harper, a brave young girl, has overcome unimaginable hardships since losing a parent at a very young age. From enduring domestic violence to facing sexual abuse, she has faced it all. Just when she thought things couldn't get any worse, some...
After losing my father to a car accident months before I started high school
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Life has never been the same since then. We all lived under one roof, with my father being the breadwinner and the responsible parent. They weren't together due to Mother being unfaithful and irresponsible. She would leave me in the house all alone and go about her day not caring if I ate or anything
Every time my dad returned from work they would argue about her hideous behavior toward me
Nothing changed.
That's when I grew close to Ms. Illene My dad would leave money with her to take care of me while he was out of parish for work
He never put my mom out for reasons that are still unclear to me to this day
It is my Dad's house but it looked way better when he was alive
Yes its a board house but it was well-kept.
***
On the day that I lost my Dad, I was completely devastated. I felt like my world had been turned upside down. I couldn't bring myself to eat, and I found myself crying every single day as I mourned the loss of the only person in the world who would do absolutely anything for me without a second thought.
I missed his loving heart and caring words dearly. It felt like everything that had made me feel safe and loved had been torn away, leaving me feeling completely hopeless.
To make matters even more difficult to bear, it didn't take long for my mother to move her boyfriend into our home. It was as if my father's passing didn't affect her at all. She didn't even pay her last respects at his funeral. I felt a deep sense of hurt and betrayal, but despite it all, I made sure to attend my dad's funeral with Ms. Illene because I knew I couldn't miss it for anything.
- Months Later It got worse I would be beaten by my mother for no reason I was barely sent to school so the guidance counselor provided lunch for me as well as taxi fare
It grasped their attention when my subject teachers started talking about how my grades were falling rapidly
From a straight-A student to a C
I accepted the help because this was the only way to make my dad proud
Success.
*** As I stepped through the front door, the realization that I had completed my first day of high school started to sink in. It felt like a big milestone. The months of preparation for the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) had paid off, and I was thrilled to have secured a spot at one of the top schools in the parish.
It was around eight in the night when my room door was pushed open by Sean
He walked into my room and settled on my bed pulling me onto his lap I said nothing until he started rubbing my legs as his hand traveled exploring my minor body
"STOP!" I screamed running out of the room head straight to my Mom's room
"Mummy!" I shouted as tears started a stream down my cheeks
"Wah uh want likkle gyal," she answered already annoyed by my presence
"Him feel up mi breast and touched me on my private part," I told her sobbing
She launched at me Using the back of her hand she swang it against my face leaving me with a burst lip
"A- Punch- lef- kick - yuh- stomp- wah- slap - mi - stomp- man lef mi dutty wicked liadd gyal?"
"Mommy please mi sorry,"I pleaded "Please" She placed her knee on my stomach with force
The suffocating pain was too much to bare it felt like I was about to pass out
The blood running from my nostrils was not enough for her to stop the torture
She didn't stop until Sean walked in He looked at me with a taunting smile plastered on his black lips
She then lifted me from the floor using the back of my T-shirt throwing me out of her room and slamming the door shut
- 8:32 Am Tuesday
I woke up earlier to attend school but my mother told me I was not going to school with all the buries she left on my skin
" a lock uh want dem come lock me up wicked gyal?" "Tan just like uh likkle dutty father him shoulda just a dead"
I returned to my room crying until my eyes were swollen and almost shut
The following night and the night that followed Sean would be in my room molesting me
" yuh mek mi cum; yuh mother caah do that but mi nah guh fuck yuh yet just in case yuh wah guh run yuh mouth and try get mi locked up dem nah guh find nuh trace a mi DNA ina yuh Suh nobody nah guh eva believe yuh if yuh tell dem seh mi touch uh," He said while squeezing my breast.
What hurts me the most is my mother was aware and did absolutely nothing
Better yet he was treated like a king
I never told anyone about the sexual abuse I was facing
