00:00When I was 13 years old, I escaped from my parents.
00:04So the day that I chose to run away, my dad had actually just got home from gambling.
00:10He was already upset and entered our bedroom where me and my siblings had stayed.
00:16As he's pushing against the door, he can't open the door.
00:19He had asked my mom to go get a knife.
00:21He manages to open the door and he grabs her by her hair and starts beating her with a,
00:27it's like an end of a heel on a shoe, drags her to his room, duxtapes her mouth, her hands
00:33together, her feet together.
00:35That's when my brother and I, we opened the window and jumped out and ran away.
00:40We started heading towards a neighborhood and somehow we ended up at a park.
00:44So we hid in a slide for a while and waited until it got dark and that's when we were
00:49caught by officers.
00:50Never once did I think about contacting the police and letting them know what happened
00:55because, you know, I'm a child, like, you know, and my thought was how much of that would they believe?
01:01There were times where he would lock us in closets, coat closets, and put a lock on it
01:05and leave us in there for a while without any food or using the restroom or just anything.
01:09We were just kids. We were 12 and 13.
01:12We did.
01:12There was many a times that my dad would threaten to kill us.
01:16There were times when he would threaten me and say that he would shave my head bald and drown me
01:22in the tub.
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