Bastard Child

I was born to a teenaged mother. She was 17 and my father was 16. I've never met him and the search exists to this day. Michael Christian Schultz- I will hopefully meet him someday. My mother married, Van Arnold Massey, Sr. at the age of 18 when I was 6 months old. He beat her regularly. Two years later she gave birth to my brother. She lost another baby when she was 6 months pregnant (he would punch her in the stomach even when she was pregnant). She had my sister two years after my brother. I remember, as a young child, watching my mother get beaten. She left him when I was five. She had another abusive boyfriend who also took things out on me as well. By the time I was in second grade at the age of seven, she took me, my brother & my sister and moved us to California with yet another new boyfriend. After being there for a year, she decided to bring us back to Arkansas. Her side of the story was that she felt bad for taking us away from "our" dad and wanted to let us spend the summer with him. We did not see her for another seven years. She says that he and his family told her she couldn't have us and that she did drugs and was in a serious depression because of it. Noone came to our rescue. My stepfather immediately started abusing me. I lived in Waldron, AR at the time. My mother was gone and I was a pedophile's plaything. It was a nightmare.