Chapter 4 – Daily Torture
The beatings would happen when I least expected but they would not happen all the time. But soon they would happen every day.
Dad had started to go to the pub every evening and whenever he got home he would sneak into my room and beat me to a pulp.
I didn't mind if my sisters or mum were not being hurt but soon it would get worse, as he would find excuses to keep me in with him alone by telling the girls they needed alone time or something along those lines.
He would then beat me when the old bruises had not even had a chance to recover I felt victimised as he did not treat anyone else like this and that is when my character started to change and I became how Barry is today.
Dad use to beat me with anything he could find and the worse thing was he loved it as he used to smile and laugh whilst doing it and said he was 'the man of the house.' Dad had also totally rejected me he would only speak to me if he had to the rest of the time he would beat me.
It was torture every time and he never showed any remorse, the things he would do would get crueller by the day.
Like one time he caught me watching an episode of SpongeBob square pants where he gets his tooth pulled out by tying it too the door. Dad then waited till everyone was out and dragged me to the kitchen.
'Think it was funny did you?'
He then tied my tooth to the door and pulled it out when it hadn't even of being wobbly, I was in agony but knew if I complained it would make it ten times worse.
Other times he used to burn me with cigarettes and matches, this was not only complete torture but it would leave marks on my skin forever.
The worst time was when he threw me out the ground floor window sure it wasn't high but when I landed on the pavement my body broke.
My family had no idea what was going on and I now seemed to always be taken to the hospital for broken bones, arms, legs, shoulder, but mum thought it was just me being rough as I was a boy.
I knew I could never speak the truth not only would dad murder me (literally) but it would break mum's heart if she even believed me and my sisters were too innocent to have something like this happen to them they were both achieving and loved dad I couldn't take that away from them.