I got this story in my gmail a while ago, and started to post it. I just couldn't. I read it, and my heart ached so much, I had to just get offline and go do something distracting.
My mother was not this bad, but sometimes she came close. Besides my sister and I being stripped nude and beaten with belt buckles, wire fly swatters, extension cords, etc., mom would do little things that were worse. She called my sister child of Satan and demonised all the time.
I remember once she'd bought some Cool Whip for company. I was about 8. She told us not to open it, but she knew I loved it. Of course, I tried to sneak a little bite, and somehow she knew I'd opened it.
She tied me to the kitchen chair...and told me since I liked it so much, I'd eat the whole thing. She then took a big tablespoon, and started forcing it into my mouth. Putting another spoon in before I could even swallow the last one. I was choking and crying. She just kept screaming at me...."I bet you won't touch the Cool Whip again." This story makes me feel ill. I am so glad this woman had the strength to testify.
I don't know how witnesses today feel about that whole "spare the rod spoil the child" stuff, but I know in my old KH, all the parents beat the hell out of their kids, and some did far worse.
