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One of the mysteries of the OJ Simpson case is what, ifanything, did the children witness. Did Sydney or JustinSimpson hear anything that night? Had they ever seenthe violence that was part of their parents’ relationship?Well, the possibility spotlights one of the most tragicaspects of domestic violence, how the children areaffected.

Recently, I spent some time with some children ofbattered women. And in their heartbreaking stories,there is a powerful lesson. When men abuse women,what happens when the kids are watching?

[INAUDIBLE].

It’s early Monday morning, 4:00 AM.

Some possible family trouble 70, a lot of yelling. Theother person supposedly hung up the phone.

Boston police respond to a 911 call.

Darlene says she has a restraining order and he’sclimbing in the window.

Family trouble, one of over 200 domestic disputes thecops in this precinct see each month.

What are you doing down here?

She called me over here.

So what? You’re supposed to stay away.

These officers are going to arrest this man for violatinghis restraining order. He was trying to break into thehome where his ex-girlfriend lives with their son.

Why are you doing this for?

I’ve had it with you, all right? See you.

After a long night of arguing, she finally called the police.

We got to take you, pal.

He’ll spend the night in jail. She can fall asleep withoutfear, knowing he won’t be coming back.

Now he’s gone. You’re drunk. And you got your kid here.

But what about their three-year-old son? What are hisfears? What is he feeling?

Time and time again, he has watched his parents cometo blows. His father spent six months in jail for assaultinghis mother and the police have been called to his home20 times in the last year.

How much more can you take?

I love him.

How does a little boy begin to understand what he’switnessed, and what will happen to him and the millionsof children just like him?

I love my mommy and my daddy.

Children living with domestic violence.

I wasn’t downstairs. I was in my room.

And what did you hear?

Fighting.

He was bad.

He was bad? Was he bad to you?

No, he was bad to you.

He said he’ll kill my mom first and then he’ll kill us.

I’m always afraid of him because you know why? He’salways bad to my mom and he always makes her sick.

Like veterans of war, all of these children have witnessedtorture and terrorism. But their war zone is not in somefar off country. It’s in their own homes.

My mother was screaming. She was crying.

It was in this home, almost a year ago, that Betsy Pagan’schildren woke to the terrifying screams of their motherpleading for her life.

He was stabbing me. He was telling me, die. I hate you.Why did you leave me? I hate you. I hate you.

I was like, please don’t kill me. Please don’t kill me.That’s when the kids heard me.

You had been asleep. And what did you hear?

Screams.

Fighting.

When I went in, the bed was bloody and the rug hadblood on it. He was on top of my mother, and he was juststabbing her.

What did you do then?

Well, I saw the blood, so I called 911.

Jean, Marino, and Betsa had seen their mother and theirstepfather fight and argue for years. They were allrelieved when her mother finally broke up with him. Noone thought he would try to kill her.

I was covered with blood. I had lost so much blood. Andthat’s when I saw Betsa. She jumped on him from theback and she pulled him off from me and throw him onthe floor.

I was saying, oh my God, please don’t let her die.

And she was already on top of me with her body coveringmine to save me. She was like, please don’t kill mymommy. Please don’t do this to my mommy. And when Isaw he was ready to come and stab her, I just push herout the way. And that’s when he stabbed me right on mychest.

You punctured a lung too, didn’t you? You got a stabwound in the heart?

Yeah.

Betsy Pagan counted 18 stab wounds on her body. Shespent eight months recuperating at the Casa MyrnaShelter for Battered Women. Her ex-boyfriend is in prisonfor attempted murder.

OK, big man.

But her children still don’t feel safe. The memory of thatnight haunts them.

They must be deeply scarred by this and worried aboutyou.

Yes, they are.

And what are some of the effects?

They woke up at night and go in my bed and they used toshake me up. Mom, mom, you OK? To see if I wasbreathing.

Because they were worried.

Sometimes I’d wake up and I have my kids with therehead in my heart to see if I was alive.

If you’ve seen something terrifying happen to a parent or a loved one, you are going to carry with you a fear that it will happen again.

Betsy McAlister Groves is a therapist who runs the ChildWitness to Violence project at Boston City Hospital.

Children may become more distractable, more anxious,sometimes more aggressive. We also see behavioralchanges in the other direction, that children maybecome more passive, may look depressed, may lookpreoccupied, may not play spontaneously anymore.We’ve seen sleep disturbances in children.

Children who witness a terrifying event have troublesleeping. They may have nightmares. They may wakefrequently at night.

Experts agree that all of these symptoms are associatedwith post traumatic stress syndrome. That’s a psychiatricdisorder more commonly used to diagnose soldiers incombat. And just like veterans of war, witnessingdomestic violence evokes terror, anxiety, and flashbacksin these children.

I know it’s a tough thing to think about, but do you thinkyou’ll ever be able to forget about it?

No.

You think it’ll always be with you?

Sometimes when I’m doing nothing, just laying down orjust sitting down, watching TV or something like that, it just pops in my mind. I see his face. And I see himstabbing my mother and me jumping on him, pushinghim.

If I hadn’t called 911, my mother should be dead.

If he hadn’t called 911, his mother would have died.Those thoughts still terrorize nine-year-old Gene. Andthe youngest, Lulu, won’t even speak about what shewitnessed that night. All of the children receivedcounseling at the battered women’s shelter, and the boysare continuing therapy in school. They say they arehealing.

The counselor in my school is helping me take it out ofmy mind.

Why would it be bad if it got back to your mind?

I’ll be dreaming about it.

The fear of dreams turning into nightmares makesbedtime really difficult for children who’ve been exposedto domestic violence. Two-year-old Genesis screams likethis every night. She and her four siblings all witnessedtheir father’s violent behavior for years. He’s in jail now for going after their mother with a machete.

I’m going kick somebody’s butt.

But it is five-year-old Pedro’s aggressive behavior thatworries his mother the most. He’s been kicked out of oneschool, has been involved in street fights, and seriouslyinjured a child with a brick. He is currently being treatedat the Child Witness to Violence project. Children who aretoo young or too afraid to talk about their fears areencouraged to use play and art therapy to expressthemselves in order to heal.

I want to be a good daddy.

Four-year-old [INAUDIBLE] drew this picture of a monsterfor his counselors. He says the monster is his father, and[INAUDIBLE] is afraid he’ll kill the family with the knifehe’s holding. He says it reminds him of the loud andbumpy sounds he heard one night.

I thought that was a monster, and that was a monsternoise, I thought. But that wasn’t. That was my dad. Hehas wild monster noises. He has a bad attitude at people.

[INAUDIBLE] eight-year-old sister, Jasmine, drew this.Her counselor says her thoughts are red because theysymbolize violence, but the knife has a window in it,showing a way out.

I’m afraid that he might find us some day and kill us.

After 11 years in a violent marriage, Bhupinder [? Coller ?]fled with her three children. They are now in hiding. Butthe judge is forcing the children to have supervised visitswith their father once a week at a neutral location.

I think my father is not very nice. He is abusive. I don’twant to see him. And what I think is, why does he have tobe that way? Why can’t he be like everyone else?

Until you read the girls’ Christmas lists, you really can’tunderstand the loss of innocence for these children.Jasmine’s top three wishes are to never see her fatheragain, never in her lifetime. And the request that mostlittle girls make, like a plea for more Barbie dolls, is listedfar below.

Sumit talks about how she used to feel lying in bed atnight, listening to her parents fighting.

I’d feel like I might throw up. I’d feel sick. And I’d feel likemy heart’s in my mouth, like I’m eating it, and that I’ll die. That’s what I used to think.

It’s hard to hear the stories from children. It’s hard toknow that our youngest children live, sometimes, withsuch danger and such chaos.

Remember the young boy we met earlier? The policereferred the family to the Child Witness to Violenceproject. Betsy Groves will contact the family and offerthem counseling and support services in the hope thatthe little boy won’t grow up to become a batterer like hisfather.

[SINGING]

Betsa Pagan just celebrated her 13th birthday.

Make a wish. Go on.

Betsa told us that she feels good because she knowsshe’s safe now. But she also feels bad because of whatshe had to go through. Things like that just don’t go awayso easily, she says.

I love you.

And later that night, her brother, Marino, proved that tobe true.

Marino, what’s going on, baby?

When his dreams once again woke him.

Hey. Remember? Remember what I always say to you?No? We are safe here. So nothing is going to happen tous. It’s over. It’s over, all right? OK, honey? OK.

Poor babies.

They’re safe.

It’s not surprising that this trauma lasts with them. Butwhat is surprising was something that you brought up,that some of these children, especially the males whohave seen their mothers being battered, go on to becomebatterers themselves.

Isn’t it amazing? Possibly because children needsomeone to imitate to know how to cope with life. And ifthe role model is improper, it will result in the childbecoming a batterer.

Because it’s the only role model they saw, no matterwhat.

Exactly. And the best experts agree that merely seeingand hearing violence like that is as traumatizing as beingthe target of abuse.

And not every child has the kind of therapy that wastalked about.

No, would that they had. Some of these children willmake it, I think.

Must have been haunting for you to do this.

Was.

 

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