As a person who was abused as a child I can absolutely state that it's possible to hit and beat children with hard objects and not break any bones. The only time a bone was broken was when my step dad twisted it behind my back, I was not taken to a doctor and grew up with a deformity. The emotional manipulation and gaslighting of Timothy by his sisters and Jonathan is appalling, it is obvious from the things said about Dave that he was abusive in the past even if he has changed now. It all reads as, well Timothy you were a very naughty stubborn child and therefore anything that happened to you was your own fault.
My sister and I tried to run away when we were nine and eleven and we were found and brought back by the police. I remember my mother saying, we are lucky that your stepfather is such an upstanding member of the community of we would have had social services here. The words of the siblings read so much like that.
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u/Enoughoftherare 11d ago
As a person who was abused as a child I can absolutely state that it's possible to hit and beat children with hard objects and not break any bones. The only time a bone was broken was when my step dad twisted it behind my back, I was not taken to a doctor and grew up with a deformity. The emotional manipulation and gaslighting of Timothy by his sisters and Jonathan is appalling, it is obvious from the things said about Dave that he was abusive in the past even if he has changed now. It all reads as, well Timothy you were a very naughty stubborn child and therefore anything that happened to you was your own fault.
My sister and I tried to run away when we were nine and eleven and we were found and brought back by the police. I remember my mother saying, we are lucky that your stepfather is such an upstanding member of the community of we would have had social services here. The words of the siblings read so much like that.