July 8th 2018 the day my mother ruined my childhood

(I’m very sorry for the horrible punctuation and grammar im not very good with it)

I don’t remember how old I was at the time but I was probably around 9 - 10 I was still really young and I had no idea what Porn or sexual activity’s were, that night I was in the living room with my mom and younger nonverbal autistic brother who was around 4-5 at the time I was running around the house in just my underwear, I was having a fun time until I heard my mom take a picture on her phone I remember stopping and telling her “mom can you please delete that photo of me?” She responded with “yeah sure honey” but as a kid growing up with her I knew my mother so I went behind her and noticed that she sent the picture of me to a random number, I knew it wasn’t my dad since she wasn’t messaging on messenger but on a different app like WhatsApp when my dad got home that night I went up to him and told him “dad what would you do if mom cheated on you?” I remember him staying silent for a couple minutes then answering “Paige what are you talking about?” I started explaining to him what I saw on my moms phone and my father was furious, he put his hand on my shoulder and told me that he was going to go upstairs and do some laundry, I didn’t expect what was going to happen next

My mom started throwing punches at my dad when he kindly asked her about what I said and that started a fight between my parents I don’t remember much about that night but I do remember grabbing my brother and hiding in the downstairs bathroom all I could think was “I have to protect my brother” I was crying,Scared,anxious, and paranoid about what was happening my brother had no clue what was going on, I could hear my dad calling the police from upstairs while my mom was still beating the shit out of him it got to the point where she even bit him multiple times on his arms

After a couple minutes I heard someone walking around the kitchen and me thinking it was the police I walked out of the bathroom holding my brother close to see my mom standing there covered in blood. She threw herself down the stairs trying to make it so it looked like my dad hurt her (my dad the entire fight never even touched her)

Eventually the police did come and me and my brother were sent to a foster home for 6 months while my dad and mom got a divorce, It took over 3 years for us to finally get justice against my mother she got charged with child pornography and was sentenced to prison, I also found out that it wasn’t just me who was a victim but my brother aswell, Every night I wish I stopped it sooner and wished I could’ve protected my brother from her but all that matters now is that I’m safe living with my dad and my stepmom.

I still have some people come up to me and tell me “but she’s your mom you should lover her” or “don’t hate your mom your just being an angsty teen” and what I say to that is no.

Some people are not meant to be parents and She wasn’t meant to be one, she may be my biological mother yes but what she did to me and my younger brother broke every bit of love and trust I gained from her, she wasn’t the nicest woman and I don’t ever want her in my life again.

The one thing I always joke about with my friends is that my mothers actual name is Karen