Children's Aid Society: A Short Story

I was almost 11 years old when my step father came into the picture, and my brother was two. Serge (my step father) had a son of his own, Fabian. At first it was great having a man stay in mine and my brother’s life, it was nice having a father figure in my life because I had never had one before and I could tell at the time he made my mother very happy.
Things started to change after my parents married, it was when Serge started showing his true colors. It started with punishing my brother and I with a slap on the bottom but then moved to objects, such as the spoon, the belt and then any object that was in front of him. The abuse only happened to myself and Nick (biological brother), he only hit Fabian once. It was terrible the treatment …show more content…
Our school had finally started noticing the different behaviours we were displaying, and also started noticing little bruises here and there on my brother and I, the school then decided to follow their policies and procedures and talked to both my brother and I about our home life, they then proceeded to contact Children’s Aid Society. The Social Worker who came into our home was very delusional, she talked to my parents but did not talk to us directly or alone, I knew if I had talked about what went on in our home I would get into a lot of trouble and later be disciplined for telling the truth. They closed the case the next day and it was never opened again. Through out the whole time the abuse was going on my mother never tried to stop it, even though I know she had seen and heard it. I know my dad had a big influence on her and manipulated her to believe that it was just corporal punishment and my brother and I deserved the abuses on our bodies. My step Brother had also kept his mouth shut, this is more understandable because he was young as well and also did not understand what was going on and did not know what was right and