I was very touched and saddened by a 11 year old girl yesterday, she has been in my thoughts since. I met this girl and her 10 year old sister about 2 years ago, their mother is a friend of my neighbor. Their mother has been in a very abusive relationship for a while now and these two children have witnessed it all.
The girls were at my neighbors house yesterday because of a horrible event that happened this past weekend. Their mother and father got into another fight, he was drunk and high and he beat her. This was not his usual beating, he would not stop and to hear the girls describe what they saw is just absolutley heart wrenching!! The 11 year old jumped on his back and told him to please stop and he threw her off, smacked her across the face and just kept beating her. The 10 year old little girl excaped outside and called the police. When they arrived, he still did not stop!!! He destroyed her eye socked, leaving her eyeball dangling on her cheek. She was very badly beaten up and is now blind in that eye. He is in jail, thank God, but these girls will never be the same! The girls are rotating shifts to take care of their mother, one stays with her for a night and the other will come to my neighbors. Anyway it was the 11 year olds turn to go to my neighbors house, her and my oldest daughter are friends. She came to our house and the first thing out of her mouth was the story of what had happened. We asked her if she wanted to spend the night and she did. My goal was to try and get her mind off of it, but I did not succeed to well. She talked about it all night, and boy did I feel for her. Like she had not been through enough, she tells my daughter and I that she has no friends, my daughter asked her why? She said “Because I ‘m fat and ugly” This just did it for me, I could not help the tears, I gave her a hug and told her to please not talk about herself that way. She is a beautiful girl and I told her this but she kept insisting that it was not true. She said that she gets made fon of at school all the time and has spent a lot of time in the bathroom crying. She even told us about a time that she missed a test, because she was in the bathroom balling her eyes out from some bully. I told her to pray next time that happens.
She has been robbed of her childhood! There is no more innocence, she has seen way more than I have ever seen. We have embraced these girls with open arms. My daughter has been so good to her and this just warms my heart, but I wish we could give them so much more! I wanted to get this story out there and ask all of you to please pray for this family, expecially these children who have been through so much. This is what they need right now, Thank you! God bless all of you, and I hope you have a wonderful day!
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