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Could DP be abusing his daughter?

131 replies

NameMe · 24/02/2011 08:49

Ok I'm going to lay it all on the line here. I'm leaving my DP in two weeks time and since this became official, the cloud in my head is starting to clear and I'm becomming concerned with what is emmerging. That is, signs that he perhaps has or is abusing his DD.

Please just bare with me because my head is like spaghetti. I'll try and be brief and concise. His daughter is 13 and has continuously wet the bed, apparantly right from when she was potty trained, she has never been completely "dry". She has had numerous hospital appointments but they can never find anything wrong, they just say she'll grow out of it but this shows no sign of happening. More disturbing is the fact that when she sleeps out, it NEVER happens. She wets the bed here almost every night yet last year she went on a week long residential trip and never wet the bed once. When she stays at friend's houses she never wets the bed. When she has friends over it never happens either. I should've been suspitious about this to start with BUT the problem was he was never alone with her. There was never really any time when he could be doing something to her because I would've heard or seen SOMETHING. But I never did. I would never normally accuse anyone of this but something is not right and I've been thinking this for a while now but I've not done anything because I honestly cannot see HOW he would manage it iyswim? I'm always around. But I would be lying if I said I didnt have any concerns about him at all. He is a strange person, lies about the most stupid things, constantly acting secretive and odd. I found porn on his computer last year, some of it was quite "young" barely legal stuff. I pulled him up on it. The "young" stuff he reckoned just popped up with the other pages.
I don't know what to beleive because SHE acts wierd too. When she walks past him she strokes his head etc, it almost seems a bit too intimate or maybe I'm being paranoid? She's constantly asking him for hugs and asking him to "go and see her" in her bedroom and when he does, they shut the bedroom door now I'm not for one minute suggesting she is instigating anything but I know she craves attention and I'm concerned that she perhaps see's ANY attention from her dad as being positive? He almost seems scared of her too, like she has some kind of a hold on him. For instance she has a rabit which is NOT looked after and the poor thing is neglected. We decided we would rehome it. She kicked off. Later that night he was in her room, door closed etc etc and when he came back down he'd TOTALLY changed his mind of rehoming the rabbit. Now I know this could be innocent whinging playing a part but something is telling me I've been a fool and something is wrong.
As I say I'm leaving so I wanted to put this out now to you and get "feedback" on whether I am being paranoid/dillusional etc. I was abused as a child so maybe this is clouding my judgement?
I can't help thinking even if he ISN'T doing anything now because I'm here, was he when it was just the two of them? is that why he's looking forward to me moving out? I'm really hoping you all come on now and tell me I'm talking shite and being paranoid.

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HecateQueenOfWitches · 24/02/2011 15:05

I never knew she was MrsSnape!

BarbaraSeville · 24/02/2011 15:09

Get with the programme, Hec Grin

HecateQueenOfWitches · 24/02/2011 15:10

I know I know. I bloody live on here, how the hell did I miss that!

I recognise the story, just never knew it was MrsS.

I don't know what I'm bloody doing with my day, honestly! Grin

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EasyCrew · 24/02/2011 15:17

The OP used to post under another (or other) names. I am not even on here that much, but the situation is recognisable if you have come across it before.

The OP really needs to leave this man. Social services should have been involved a long time ago. There is a whole back story that perhaps the OP will elaborate on at some stage...?

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nobodyisasomebody · 24/02/2011 15:27

For whatever reason, the OP posts again and again that she is about to leave and discusses the same scenario.

For some reason she is unable to get past this particular point and remains in what can only be described as a highly dysfunctional relationship.

As others have said the back story is recognisable to regular posters.

Op, Is there anything anybody can actually say to make you listen.

You must leave.

Report to nspcc.

Don't go back

Mouseface · 24/02/2011 15:36

Didn't the OP say she'd already contacted the NSPCC earlier upthread but said she found them no help, but that they'd told her to contact SS?

Am I msking that up?

warthog · 24/02/2011 15:38

mrsSnape has been around for years and years. before she was mrssnape she took a good couple of years kicking her cocklodger out, starting a new thread every month or so and then disappearing after a few posts.

tis very sad.

OP, if you're still reading, the best thing you can do for yourself is get you and your kids out and then NOT HAVE ANOTHER RELATIONSHIP with anyone for a good long time, until you're comfortable in your own skin.

GORGEOUSX · 24/02/2011 16:06

What's a 'cocklodger'? Confused

HecateQueenOfWitches · 24/02/2011 16:11

a man who doesn't contribute to the family by either bringing money in or doing childcare / housework but rather leaves everything to the woman and just screws her.

and screws her.

GORGEOUSX · 24/02/2011 16:27

Oh, ok. Thank you HecateQueenofWitches Grin

QuintessentialShadows · 24/02/2011 16:27

It is in the word. The cock is the lodger.

Mouseface · 24/02/2011 16:29

Quite literally Sad

PeterAndreForPM · 24/02/2011 18:00

OP's silence is telling it's own story now

How long have you been "just about" to leave this guy ?

How long have you had "concerns" about whether your SD is being abused ?

How long has he been mistreating your own children ? (from old threads, yes, but relevant really when I see some posters who don't know your back story trying to normalise things for you)

What have you actually done about it ?

You are actually a disgrace, lady Sad

Mouseface · 24/02/2011 18:13

That was the mistake I made Peter

I posted without realising there was a history, and tried to understand what the OP meant by her first few posts. Blush

Luckily, Reality cleared things up, she's good like that Wink

NorkyButNice · 24/02/2011 18:19

Last time you posted about this, I recall that you got a number of responses (from people who have either professional or personal experience of these things) suggesting that your SD may be using bedwetting/uncleanliness as a way of keeping your DH from abusing her. IIRC she hardly ever showers or bathes either?

If this is true, and there IS something like this going on, then it's a shame then you chose to ignore those responses months ago, and only now think that he may be abusing her.

PeterAndreForPM · 24/02/2011 18:28

yes, OP, you should have included again her very extreme lack of personal hygiene (more than just a teenager being too lazy to shower), a common indicator for something not being "right" and a cry for help

stop looking for people to tell you all is ok

PeterAndreForPM · 24/02/2011 18:31

mouse you only had what OP told you (this time)

this seems to be her modus operandi Sad

am not going to post again on this thread, have no wish to contribute to a witch hunt

I don't actually think this is a troll, so not reporting either

unfortunately, I think this is a real situation

Mouseface · 24/02/2011 18:45

Sad Peter

QuelleLeJeff · 24/02/2011 19:44

It's heartbreaking Peter. Not so much for the OP, but for all of the children involved.

I hope she really is going this time, and I hope she voices her legitimate concerns for the daughter because this disaster has been going on for far too long.

medicalmayhem · 24/02/2011 20:05

my son is a bed wetter has been for years we've done all the treatment from school nurse ands so far nothing has helped, have been told to wait until hormones kick in etc, anyway my point is he never wets the bed when he is at a sleep over or school camp etc only when he is at home, i think it is because when he is in a strange bed he doesn't sleep as soundly, and is more aware of his environment etc,,, but i would say his daughter sounds like a spoilt child who likes to have her dads attention all to herself,

QuelleLeJeff · 24/02/2011 20:17

Nice one MM.

Your child who wets the bed has a problem to be addressed, the OP's stepdaughter ( for want of a better word) is a "spoiled child"?

Yuck

PeterAndreForPM · 24/02/2011 20:24

Perhaps MM only read the OP ?

< lives in hope >