Kerri
My name is Kerri and I want to share my story.
It was a nice beautiful day in Florida where we lived for two years. Our four daughters and I were sitting on the bed watching T.V. and waiting for him to get home. That night changed everything for us.
He had been very moody off and on for weeks. When he got home he was in a rage that was unstoppable.
He came in yelling and cussing. When he entered the room he starting pulling me off the bed by my feet. I was screaming, telling him to let go, the kids were freaking out, but it wasn’t enough to snap him out of it. He dragged me through the living room saying he was going to rape me. I was kicking and fighting back. He sat on my stomach ripping my clothes off. He tore my underwear off like it was nothing. The look in his eyes was so intense and dark. He was banging my head on the tile floor and twisting my neck to where my face was on my back.
I got up and finally was able to get to the kitchen but he got me on the floor again. Now my kids were getting in it. They were jumping on his back as he continued to yell and scream. I got up and tried to run out the door but he blocked it. I ran to the garage door and tried to get out there but he came after me. So I was telling the kids get out go to the neighbors house I will hold him. He was trying to chase them around then.
This wasn’t the first time we fought. We were together for eleven years. I thought that if I left that my kids would hate me for leaving their dad. So of course I stayed. Beating after beating. The mental abuse was just as bad. I found out that he had a cocaine problem after I had my first two kids.
After I got out of that house that day I swore to my kids they would never have to see something like that again. I left three months after that and have been gone since. My kids and I have a lot of trauma that we are working through now, but to break a chain and a cycle that I saw when I was a young girl is so hard. I’m gonna get all the help my kids need so they don’t go through what they saw me go through.
Thank you for making a website that we can go to and let some of this out. I have tried for years to think of something I can do to help other families that this has happened to.
