Introduction
My name is Sara Jane Gorman,
I am an Awareness trainer of learning disability and mental health, this issue I would
not wish it on anyone, sadly rape and abuse can happen to anyone, and no one
should have to face it but sadly it has always happened and still does.
It is all in your mind they
said but no was not because it has never been forgotten. Life goes on and the only way life goes on realizing I am not alone, which I used to think I was alone,
and I thought I was imaging things, I thought I was going mad then over the
years I found out many others faced the same as me in different times and ways.
I would think of others anyway but raising awareness and realizing I am not
alone is my way of getting on with my life and trying to help others going
through if not the same but similar.
This a story of a childhood experience
I do not know how to put it into words to make sense to others, I never have been
able to.
For over 40 years now what I am writing about
today is bad memories not words and that is because of having disabilities,
special needs, mental health, etc.
What happened is hard to forget no matter how
hard I try not remembering but even now I struggle to put it into words. However,’
I am trying to put it in the best possible way I can for not just for my sake
but for others of all generations and ages, who have faced rape and abuse. Sadly, rape
and abuse still happen, even though it is dealt with a different way than it was
more than 40 years ago and more where people had bad memories but worse no
voices now, we have if we wish to say.
However,’ even so not everyone finds it easy
to say mainly if you have disabilities, mental health or and other problems,
children, teenagers, the elderly, etc. How can you help these people to have a
voice if they wish to, your support matters? No one can force people to talk
but there are ways people can if they wish to. https://helplines.org/helplines/supportline-2/
https://www.supportline.org.uk/
https://www.victimsupport.org.uk/help-and-support/get-help/supportline
https://www.thesurvivorstrust.org/faqs/supportline
Just to say sorry about the
story is not being very written as I am Dyslexia. Just to say the way it
happened in the story to the character did not happen to me in the same way,
but I did face rape and abuse within the school but not on a school trip.
It was all in her mind, but it is not; she must
have had a nightmare the time when Cherry Rose Pike was attacked on a school
trip to London.
Cherry had lost sight of
children and staff as they were crossing the traffic lights and Cherry had lost
her whereabouts.
What Cherry then saw the gate
open into Saint James’s park round about 4.00pm on a dark Friday evening.
Suddenly an old guy named
Jack brown grabbed her and pushes her into the nearest hedge as Cherry screams
blue murder as he forces himself on her. She had no idea what was happening to
her, she thought he was going to kill her.
She never saw what he looked
like, other than long grey hair and bred.
“Get off me, leave me alone!”
as Cherry screamed
It was so sudden, dark, and quick, it was hard
for her to notice much as the Park keeper came as quick as he could, then
grabbed Jack by the scruff of his neck.
Jack ran off, then Ralph the keeper took
Cherry to the Police station.
Ralph found it hard to know
what to say, other than.
“Where are you from and how
are you here?”
“My name is Cherry Rose Pike,
from Wolverhampton, I am on a Special Boarding school trip and I lost sight of
everyone.”
“Oh,
dear they are all worried about you and your parents but let’s get to the
police station they will help you to get home.”
Cherry
was shaking and too much in shock to speak.
Ralph
struggled to cope with the situation as he told the police behind the desk what
happened and left.
Cherry was 12 years of age,
raped by Jack Brown at Saint James’ Park London 4.05 pm, Friday 31st
January 1982.
She was pumped in the stomach
and had two black eyes.
Cherry was special needs;
went to special schools and she was in a child’s home and also raised by her
Mother’s family.
As a result of the rape, she
was pregnant, but baby Nike Pike was adopted for a year as Cherry a year after
the birth of the baby came into contact with her father, the baby’s Grandfather
Fred who supported her.
On the night of the rape, it
took a while for the school to realize there was a child missing as they called
the police and cherry family on the way back to Wolverhampton. Cherry was then
picked up by her family at the Police station in London. By Sara Jane Gorman
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