Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be in a really violent situation?
Or have you been involved in something scary – and you’d like to see how other people handled it?
This Blog is a collection of hand accounts from clients at the Women and Children Crisis Centre (WCCC) in Tonga. WCCC provides transitional housing, counselling, legal support and financial assistance to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse.
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Child abuse
06/09/2013 16:51
I marry young. We were very much in love. It all starts when we stay together. He have affairs with other women. He use to beat me every day and cut my hair with a knife. He always come with his friends and drinks in our house. He made me sit at a corner and do whatever he want me todo....
06/09/2013 13:59
It doesn’t always easy to talk about how I experience life in this age. When I was 3 years old my dad left. I was the only child and so my mom work hard for me and her family. When I was 8 years old my mom passed away. Everything went wrong. It was because I always make bad decisions. I...
06/09/2013 11:46
I was the only daughter of four children. My parents divorced because my father was having an affair with another woman, then our mom left oversea and leave us to stay with our father.
During this time we were still at school, and it was my last year at tertiary school. I come across many problems...
23/08/2013 16:32
I think to myself that he’s the right person, with his smiling face, soft voice when we were still going out. He love and care for me.
I was shocked after our wedding for a few months, I realized he have a new attitude. He gets angry all the time, show by his face and his voice and he starts...
06/08/2013 16:43
I use to work to one of the government department before and we had some problem in which they took me to court.
One of the government agents was working on my case and suppose to take me to the police station to take down my statement, but he took me to some bush and rapes me.
It has been four...
06/08/2013 16:42
I got married when I was 17 and my husband was 21. My parents didn’t want me to get married but it’s my own choice.
We were very much in love. We have our own house. My husband work every day and I stayed home and does our house work. We have a lovely time together at home, we talk to each...
06/08/2013 16:40
“He went last Friday 20/1/2012 to work, and up to today he hasn’t returned home. We had one child who was adopted and he is dead now. I was so worried about my husband, where he is because I know that he went to work. I contact his workplace to check on him but he didn’t come to work.
I have been...
06/08/2013 16:39
I am 19 years old; I was adapted to a family of nine with eight boys and one girl. I was meant to be a sister to their only daughter who is what I was told, but it was different now as I grew up. I am the one who does all the housework at home.
My adopted parents separated when I was in class...
06/08/2013 16:38
I was only 10 years old when it started. My parents would often tell me to go to the local shop to get everyday necessities for the household like bread, butter and tinned fish.
One day the shop keeper told me to enter through the back door and I did. He told me that he had some...
06/08/2013 16:36
I am thirteen years of age. I was repeated in form one twice because of missing school too much. There were ten of us children in the family. My parents separated and my mother was having a de-facto relationship with children of her own while my father was having a de-facto...
