Oh My Gosh!!!!!!!!!!???????????

This little girl named Natalie tested positive for crack cocaine and marijuana at birth and she was born 6- weeks premature, caused by the effects of her mother doing those drugs. Being six week premature, she weighed less than five pounds when born.

When Natalie was ten weeks old Kempe reached out towards her family and preformed developmental evaluations on Natalie. They helped her get over the "bump" of being a premature baby and already being addicted to 2 drugs. Because of these, by the 4th visit she had caught up for her age and by the 5th she was verbally ahead for her age.

She was adopted by her foster parents along with her brothers and sister. They say that she is smart, loved, healthy, and will have a productive life.

To be addicted to drugs by your mother's doing, and I thought that mother's are supposed to be loving and caring.

http://www.kempe.org/index.php?s=33&item=176

Fighting Back to Survive

I found a story about a really brave woman who survived a three armed robber attack.
Her name was Susan, and this attack took place in August of 1997 in the city of Jacksonville, Florida.
Susan lives on a property with her husband ten minutes from town.
One night she was watching TV while her husband, Mike, was sound asleep in the bedroom.
All of a sudden she hears her doorknob jiggling, and then her front door comes crashing down with three armed robbers following through.
Her first instinct was to dash for her bedroom, and while she did that, one of the robbers tried to pursue her, but fell when jumping over her couch.
She got to her bedroom and placed her back against the door, and screamed for her husband to get up and to help her. He joined her on her task to stop the robbers from coming through the door. Then there was a sudden detonating noise.
The robbers started shooting at them. Susan was shot in the chest, and her husband was shot in the shoulder. Even though Mike was harmed, he fought the robbers to try and keep them away from Susan. He pushed them into the living room and continued to fight them there.
The fight gave Susan time to get her phone and call 911. She gave the police her address and said, " We're being shot, get here now".
She was bleeding immensely from the gun wound to her chest, but she knew that if she gave up the fight, she was probably going to die. So she went to the gun cabinet beside her bed, grabbed Mike's .22 caliber pistol, took the safety off, and cocked it.
Meanwhile, Mike was getting beaten and pistol whipped in her living room. She went out to the living room, and not wanting to shoot her husband, shot over the robbers heads to see if they would run away, but they didn't. Instead, one of the robbers actually rushed after her. So she spun around, and ran back to her bedroom. She thought the robber was going to come in through the bedroom door, but he didn't. So she peeked out from her door, and saw the robber's arm sticking out from behind her fridge, gun in hand, waiting for her to come out.
But what the robbers didn't know, was that Susan had like a secret passageway that led from her bedroom to her living room and back to her dining room. When she took that "secret passageway", she ended up standing behind the robber that was waiting for her to come out, and she open fired.
She shot him twice, and he staggered outside screaming, " The f-ing b**ch shot me, kill her!"
One of the robbers had fled the scene in the gang's vehicle, and the guy that Susan shot collapsed out on her driveway. There was only one robber left in the house, and he shot Mike in the torso and shot Susan in the chest again, making her lung collapse. She ran all the way back in her bedroom, too shocked to know that she had been shot. She thought her husband was dead, until she heard the robber ask him, "Where are the f-ing keys to that truck!" And she heard her husband reply saying that they were in the bedroom, and she was in the bedroom.
She knew that the robber was going to come into the bedroom, so she started praying for herself and for her husband. The next thing she knew, the robber was holding a gun to her head and was screaming at her to give him the keys to the truck. When the robber left with their truck, Susan hurried towards Mike. A police officer arrived at the scene and stumbled over the robber's corpse in the driveway. Then paramedics arrived and rushed Susan and Mike to the hospital. They had received life threatening injuries, but survived.
This story blew me away. I was bewildered at all the violence that was used, and how this couple defended themselves against it. I bet their hearts were racing at like 200 beats per minute. I wonder if the robbers also get scared while attacking someone. Maybe attacking someone is just as scary as being attacked, especially if the person that is being attacked fights back.
The two other robbers were caught and put in jail for life.
Susan believes that she survived because she needed to tell people her story, just in case someone fell into the same situation that she was in, so that they could react the same way that she did.
http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived episode 27

I Was Abused

A women called Patty was abused and controlled by a man for 3 and 1/2 years. It first began with name calling, then pushing and mussing, but then came the kicking and slapping, spitting came along and punching came last. Sometimes she passes out on night and wakes up with urine because of being close to death. The man pored bear all over her, IN FRONT OF HER 4 YEAR OLD SON.

She did not let her have relationships with her friends because he deleted her contacts. He will not let her even talk t her MOTHER because of the man. She cried a lot and she felt isolated.

She prayed and tried to seek GOD, she started fasting and reading the bible and going to church.

What helped her was THE FATER THE SON SND THE HOLY SPIRIT.

http://www.wadv.org/Survivors.htm

Wanderer

Jenna was walking around a hotel parking lot at the age of four. She could barely speak, and couldn't sit long enough to color a picture, and to top it off she did not know her last name and refused to sleep in her bed along with overeating and hiding of her food.

She was diagnosed with PTSD (Post-Tramautic Stress Disorder) and accepted into the Kempe Therapuetic Preschool and received state of the art care. She now can sit and color a picture, listen to stories, she can eat meals slower, and she can sleep on her bedroom floor (still doesn't like her bed, and realizes that she has her foster parents for comfort.

To be four years old and out on your own. It must have given her the habits of hiding food, in the streets you always save some for later. I feel really bad for what she had to go through.

http://www.kempe.org/index.php?s=33&item=389

she would do anything for her daughter

her husband had left the house for his night shift job. Melissa and her 2 year old daughter where at home alone. It all stared when they were watching TV in the living room, then they sleep their because it was hot upstairs and they were tired, so Melissa was locking her house and getting ready for bed. She had woke up because she had felt something sharp on her neck on felt uncomfortable on her back she had thought it was her husband but she had heard a voice that was unrecognized. and found out it was not her husband. she did not have her glasses on and could barley see up to 3 inches. she had saw the person and described as he was on drugs and scary. Then she had stared screaming that had woke her daughter and she stared screaming too. the man had threatened her that if her daughter did not shut up he would her killed her. at that moment she had said to herself that she would have done anything to keep her daughter safe.she had told her daughter to up to her room and lock her door and keep it lock lintel she had gone up to get her. she had to make him happy so he would not hurt or kill her daughter. At that point she had finger out he was stoner bigger then her. Then the guy had took her cloths off, and grabbed her by the hair and he had told her to get him a drink and so she did. she had ran across a pan she wanted to hit him with it but she was too wound that she was not strong enough to knock him out.so she had not do it, she was scared that was just going to him mad. He had sated there for 2 hours the guy had wanted for her to have sex, and she had let him do want ever he wanted to do. She had tried to convince his to leave but nothing work. he had tide her hand and went outside and she was begging him to not leave her daughter alone in the house, and the man just thought her to shut up. At that point she had thought her was going to die and never see her family again. she had on a car and then if she scared or naked outer noise he would of go back in her house and kill her daughter. she can only move her leg and she was thinking how is she going to make it out. she had a rides around town and he pick up some people and then drop them off. later he had stop and was thinking how to rind of her. and all she wanted to get dropped off anywhere but she want to get home and to her daughter. he had let her go to the front sit for more sex. and her husband is home and still wanted to go home. and now she ended up back in the trunk of the car and it was getting hot and now she was planing to run away. the car had stop for a long time and she had kick the sit and got to the driver side and drove away but she did not have her glasses on so she could not see vary well.her husband was there and she had got home and huge her daughter a lot. Then she was rushed to the hospital. 8 years had passed before she was abductor, and the guy had got caught convicted on a DNA match. and went to prison

http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived

The man who doesn't care

She was with this guy for 13 years, she had thought he was a good husband until he trued to a men who did everything in his power to hurt her in mentally, financially, physically, and sexually. it all stared when she was stared a business, and he tried everything to stop me. she had seen that every time she had better in business wise, the more controlling he became. He stop paying bills. withholding sex. Ignoring her, calling her names. then one night he woke up to yell at her at 3 am. He had a knife hanging in the bedroom, with a 10" blade. she had woke several night being hit, he tried to say he was sleeping, and did't know he was doing it. he scared her. she had stop sleeping in the room. then she had found porno books around the house. she had kept asking his to not leave them around, as she had 6 year old son. he did it anyway. So she had to keep in eye out for them she had proceeded into her business refusing to give up, and he became more ugly daily. she ended up calling 911 when he had threatened to smash her office equipment, and hurt her. she had got a restraining order and had the police remove him. she had divorce was just signed it. she had not realize that she might have PTSD, until she had talk with her friends who is a psych. Tech. Now she have a new man now, a good man, She is dating. he had took her into a jewelry store to just look. she was so stressed out. She would't look at anything, and stayed back. All she wanted was to leave.

http://www.mental-health-today.com/ptsd/domestic/stories.htm

Hitchhikers on a Verge to Kill

I found a violent story that took place in the year 1983.
There was a man named Jesse that was driving his van on a road trip through the Texas Badlands during winter. He spotted two guys on the road freezing their butts off, and they had a dog with them. He knew that they needed to hitch a ride, but he didn't know if it was the right thing to do, although he did feel sorry for them.
He decided that leaving the two young men out in the snow was not a very noble thing to do, so he revved his van up towards them, and told them to hop in.
The road was filled with ice, and it was slippery, and it was dangerous. The two guys thanked the man and took a spot in the back. One of them was very talkative, while the other was quite timid and silent.
Jesse considered them nice people, but he still felt doubtful of letting them hitch a ride on his van.
Finally they had to stop at a hotel for the night. Jesse checked in at a room, and the two men checked into the room next to Jesse's. Jesse thought about leaving the two men in the hotel the next day. He even called his mother to ask her for advice about the hitchhiking thing.
The next morning he knocked really softly on their room door, so that he could say that he at least tried to advice them, so that he could leave them.
But to his "luck", they answered the door and came out ready to go.
They hopped back into the van, and left. The supposedly talkative guy didn't seem so talkative anymore, and they had a look in their eyes that didn't seem so friendly.
All of a sudden, one of the guys takes out a sledgehammer and brutally attacks Jesse with it.
Jesse fights back with all his might, but he failed to defend himself from the sledgehammer attacks. He took damaging blows to gut, ribs and face. Jesse lost control of the wheel and the van skidded off the road into the snow until one of the guys took control of the wheel. One of the guys opens the door in the midst of the struggling, and by this point, they had gone about 100 yards away from the highway. Jesse knew that he might die if he didn't escape from them and their sledgehammer, so he jumps from the van and into the snow.
Jesse felt the snow around him, and he heard the van coming back towards him. He thought that they were coming back to kill him so that he couldn't accuse them of anything. But they had come back for their dog which had accidentally jumped out of the van along with Jesse.
That's when they ran over Jesse's legs, and then they drove away with his van.
Jesse couldn't seem to catch his breath, but knew that if he lost consciousness, he would most likely die.
He crawled all the way to the highway, which was an extremely painful experience.
Somebody spotted him laying there helplessly, and covered in his own blood.
He was taken to the hospital and had surgery on his face, arms, ribs, legs, and on his collapsed lung.
The two guys got arrested, and sent to prison for attempted murder, grand theft auto, and use of weapons.
I was astounded at this man's story. Maybe he should have followed his instincts, and he should have left the two guys at the hotel. I guess you can't really trust anyone you don't know. Especially hitchhikers, because they can be a real pain in the butt. Take this story as an example. And sometimes the attacker isn't necessarily the hitchhiker, but also the one who owns the vehicle. So whatever you do, don't hitch a ride, or pick up a hitchhiker. Ever.

http://www.biography.com/video.do?name=isurvived episode 24