By ANA PALACIO | Executive Director
This is the story of a child who, like many, have suffered abuse. If you are suffering or have suffered any kind of mistreatment or abuse, I hope you know that you do not have to continue being a victim and that you can be happy.
We do NOT want these stories to repeat themselves. BECOME A HERO. HELP THEM!
"I am Samuel, when I was seven years old, I had just started second grade in the school in my town, I had a teacher of an extracurricular activity, I was a strange man. One day we were all the children standing, listening to another teacher. Suddenly someone pinched my butt. I turned around and he was right behind me, looking straight ahead, pretending he was listening to his partner. Shortly after he gave me the same pinch again. That's how he started it all, he started treating me like an object to play with, manipulate and destroy. I kept telling myself how stupid I was, how bad I was, how bad I behaved, how little I was worth. He enjoyed humiliating me, destroying my self-esteem, manipulating my mind, generating fear in me, he brought his face close to mine, with a slight smile of perverted enjoyment. My fear and suffering were his pleasure. But fear had blocked me, he was unable to defend myself and was unable to tell what was happening to me.
One day after several months of excruciating torture to my mind, he sent me to my knees. He turned off the light, pulled out a knife, and asked me if he knew where children went when they died. I said to heaven. And then he said “you're going to go there. I'm going to stab you with the knife. " I did not feel scared or afraid. On the contrary, I was relieved that this was finally over. I stayed on my knees, silent, accepting that he was going to stab me with the knife. But the seconds passed and apparently that man was doing nothing, although inside he must have been feeling the greatest excitement.
Until I finally told my mother and despite the fact that she defended me and stopped going to that school, I kept seeing him on the street or imagining his torture, the psychological damage has haunted me my whole life and has affected all my relationships, my studies, my personality. Despite everything, after receiving psychological treatment I have managed to overcome some of these fears."
This may be the story of thousands of children in our country. In SUPERARSE we work so that children do not have to live the horrors of physical and psychological abuse
By Ana Palacio | Executive Director
By Ana Palacio | Executive Director
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