My name is Ja****** and This is my Testimony:
I was two years old when i was adopted into a JW family. My adopted family put me into home schooling from first grade to twelve grade i graduated. but, i taught myself basically because anytime i would even get on problem wrong i would get beat and sometimes put in a corner. so i just continued teaching myself. as i grew older i was being molested by my sister and there were times she would even hold me down and have sex with me, so i was being raped to. for ten years this went on i even told my mother and they would say that im lying. so i just gave up in even trying and let her do this to me. i would get beat for little things there was one time where we went door to door and i could barely walk or move my arms because i had black and blue marks all over me.
There were times that i couldnt walk so i would pretend that i was sick so i could stay home from their meetings and recuperate. when i was finally 14 i went to the elders and they told me if i said anything that i would be kicked out of the congregation. my dad was an elder and he covered it up because he was part of the judicial committee. then when i turned 18 i tried to move out and they wouldn't let me so what i did was go to pg movies and different stupid things where i got beat up a lot. during that time i fought back about my sister molesting me and they went and made me look like a liar and they also made me apologize to the congregation for the supposed lies. and so i went a couple of months later and tried to try again and this time they went and publicly reproved me which i thought was bull. so i disassociated myself.
I deal with nightmares every night of my life. i go through pain because of this. my family disowned me because i left the religion. the only thing that helps me survive is my 2 boys and watching them grow up in a loving home and with happiness and love. anybody tries to hurt them ill hurt that person but i love my family and my wife.
You have my permission to use this at your own judgment to help.
SORRY! Everyone it is not my story............I feel soooooo silly. It was an abuse case I was reading on a site I found. The topic was "Another" abuse case, i did not make this plain.
It brought a lump to my throut, I just had to share!.............EDITED on 5 March