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| 6 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wed. January 4, 1984 Incest scars teenager's family life | v \ One of the worst things about incest is keeping your guilt botti- ed up inside, not being able to reveal your darkest secret fo even the people closest to you. In an effort to try and relieve this sitva- tion, a self-help group for incest victims is being formed. See story for details. 0055S M &l MACHINE SHOP Head Rebuilding - Engines Rebuilt - HOSPITAL REPORT Week Ending December 28 Rotor & Drum Turning - Helicoil Repair Admissions............... 23 Flywheel Resurfacing (hat & recessed) parts Motorcycle Brake Disc Resurfacing | i oryencies. 246 Engine Boring & Head Resurfacing Operations.................. 6 MERV PUGH {) Discharged... ......... 27 Regions Rd. 8, Port Porry 985-9345 ) Remaining................31 Self-help group planned ~ torelieve victims burden | by Cathy Robb "Alice Marie is a victim of incest. She was 11 years old when her stepfather forced her to engage in sexual intercourse for the first time. Her mother worked nights selling cosmetics, "jewellry and everything but Tupperware, and it was much too conven- ient for her husband to slip into Alice Marie's (not her real name) roo where a young girl lay feigning sleep. ' never said a word. He never had to say anything because I was so afraid of him to begin with. There was some physical abuse, unnecessary beatings, but not to the point of lacerations," she recalls, now a rather plump tired-looking woman in her early 20's, living with her husband and baby daughter in Port Perry. 'I blamed God, I stopped believing in God for awhile because of it. I couldn't see how God could do this to me therefore I thought there can't be a God." Her parents divorced when she was seven and it wasn't too much later that her mother re- married. 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Monsters "In the daytime I loved him and my mother but in the night both of them became monsters. I know its a te..ible way to put it," she says, looking down at the floor, 'but it's the only way I can put it." She tried to tell her mother what was going on between her and.her stepfather but Alice Marie's mother refused to believe her. "I've been known to tell my mother lies but never about anything this serious,' she says. "I wasn't a perfect child by any means." She can't recall how many times her step- father forced himself on her, whether it was once a week or once a month or every other night. Her mind has blocked out much of the details of those nights and her memories are seen in what she calls "screen- vision", in bits and pieces, but she vididly remembers the time she tried to tell her mother what was going on. Suicide Threat When her mother didn't believe her, Alice Marie threatened to kill herself and promptly marched upstairs to the bathroom medicine cab- inet where she was faced with a dazzling array of lethal- -looking drugs. She examined them closely and finally chose the pills that look- ed the most deadly--and swallowed the whole lot of them. She then went back to her mother and told her what she had done, expecting tears of remorse and a heart- wrenching good-bye scene. Instead, her mother laughed. Alice Marie had just consum- ed a month's worth of birth control pills. ENMMEF BRONERS TED 193 QUEEN ST PORT PERRY 416: 98% 7306 ALL LINES OF GENERAL VG VICTORIA TRUST Since B44 5 Yr. Annual Interest 10¥4% Semi-Annually INSURANCE AND GREY 11% Rates Subject to Change - | Without Notice "I hated her for that, for laughing at me," she says. 'So I started swearing and cursing at her, and back then I never swore but I figur- ed I was going to die in a minute anyways so it wouldn't matter. I used to sit there for hours with razor blades at my wrist but I was chicken. I hate pain." She tried to run away several times packing necessities such as baton sticks and long dresses, but it wasn't .until she was 15 that she was successful in making it to the Children's Aid Society. For days before the act- ual getaway she smuggled clothes and food into her high school locker and then hid away in the auditorium and fell asleep. The Runaway ~ She awoke to the sound of balls bouncing and when she peeked through the curtains which divided her and the gym, she saw the entire senior boys basketball team practis- ing. Minutes later a stray ball came bounc- ing up onto the stage, inches away from the trembling Alice Marie. She held her breath, fearful of making any noise. "1 was trapped up there and terrified of being caught. I know this sounds crazy but I kept thinking that this must be how the Jews felt hiding from the Nazis," she says earn- estly, bare feet curling together on the carpet. - Eventually the team left and when the coast was clear, Alice Marie fled to the nearest police (Turn to page 23) chatterbox (continued) nonsense. I would venture to say that if any police chief in any major urban municipality in Canada went in front of the Police Commission to ask for 10 or 12 new officers to maintain a year found RIDE program, the Commision would have a hard time saying no. Public opinion is on the side of the police when it comes to drinking and driving. There are not too many people who would object to their tax dollars being used to step up the anti-drunk driv- ing programs of enforcement. It has become a major social issue, and rightly so. If the crack-down (and all the publicity) at Christmas can make people smarten up when it comes to drinking and driving, why not all year round? 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