Beyond the Dutroux Affair The reality of protected child abuse ... - Soup

'They burned her.'
'Where?'
'In a basement,' she whispered even more quiet. And she withdrew deep
within herself, fighting against the odor of the liquid that they had poured
over her.
And then when he wanted to ask more, she shook her head.
'I want to go home,' she begged. Away from those horrible memories.
But Chrissie didn't leave her head anymore.
Her screams, her begs for help... Tiu [Regina's murdered child]. Everything
came together that week, as if time was something malleable, and
became alive again as soon as the images were recalled.
My son, whom I had cherished; Chrissie who soon thereafter was
gruesomely punished; the screaming in my head. The madness I had felt
in the days after. The madness that had started when they... but I refused
to let the images come through..."
"Pain? Indeed. It hurt so much that I could only tell via a detour who that
day were with Chrissie. It almost drove Patriek and Philippe up the wall.
Before them they saw a grown, frightened woman, while they had to
communicate with Kenny, the heavily traumatized alter, who had become
almost autistic after the death of Tiu and Chrissie. Kenny carried that
information with him, but could not speak... stubborn, frightened,
evasive, he pushed the questions of the BOB officers away. Only through
the support of other alters, who listened along and were located close to
him, it was possible for Kenny, stammering and rambling, to tell his story."
(52)
A sniff of extreme abuse
DID was created in X1 because of her background of extreme abuse. But
what did this abuse actually involve?
First there was the psychological aspect. X1 never received any support or
love from her parents, her grandmother, Tony or any of her abusers.
Especially Tony and the grandmother, who acted as her pimps,
indoctrinated X1 with the belief that she was a nobody, that besides Tony
nobody cared about a "little whore" like her, that she was too stupid to
become anything else than a prostitute, and that "love" is something you
never get for free.
Furthermore, X1 was blamed for just about anything that happened to