9 months since my last self injury? No fucking way

And you know, I hardly even think about it at all. It’s still there but it’s not..there. It doesn’t haunt me like it used to, that’s all I know.

Now that the wild goose chase is finished we can safely say the police do not set expectations well, at all. And still, they carry on leading my mother & step-father up the garden path.

Now I banked on them getting intouch with the police after reading the email I forwarded them from the DC. You know, quoting the law & pretty much saying “case closed”?

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Apparently the police are now going to visit them once again and they’re going to talk to his mother.

Now, I can tell you right now, even if she came out with the words “he raped me too!” It still wouldn’t get his mangy assed charged. The law is & will stay the same no matter what they say. As long as it isn’t witness to my abuse, the end of the line is nigh. Anyway, how long do we expect this to take anyway? I mean it only took them six months to visit him!!

That aside, my step-father tells me it’s “all going in the right direction”. What the hell is he talking about? It’s over.

I replied with something along the lines of “but the police have said there’s nothing more they can do, from a legal stand-point. But evidently they have led you to believe there is more?”

But like always, all I got back was a defensive riddle of a statement.

6 weeks after they said they would, the police finally took my abuser in for questioning.

I don’t have a lot to say for myself right now other than , what a weight off!

The outcome?…

He vehemently denied everything.

But of course he did!

He was interviewed for a good few hours, as was his daughter by social services, but there was nothing else they could do without a confession. We all knew it was my word against his. There’s no evidence. So this is it, I’m afraid.

Scottish law is as follows:

At Common Law, the evidence of a single witness, however credible, is not sufficient to prove a charge against an accused person, or to establish any critical and material fact, such as the identification of the accused. There must be corroboration of the evidence of that witness, either by the testimony of another witness or by evidence of facts and circumstances. In the absence of rebutting evidence, facts which are not crucial and material may be established by the evidence of one witness. (Lockwood v. Walker, 47 S.L.R. 155; Harrison v. Mackenzie, 60 S.L.R. 561; Strathern v. Lambie, 1934 S.L.T. 435; and Morton v. H.M.A., 1938 S.L.T. 27).

I am unsure as to whether my family listened to anything I said on this front, so I’m pretty sure there will be some really disappointed faces. I however am satisfied thus far knowing he has been called out & that even though he won’t be going to prison, he has not got away with it. He can deny it till he’s blue in the face but the two of us, one on one… Well, he knows the truth.

I don’t have very much detail about what happened at all but I like that they waited until about 7 o’clock at night – let him have dinner, settle in.. They showed up earlier but I guess he was out enjoying the school holidays with his kids. What matters to me is that he was detained in his house, in front of his wife & children, then taken to the station for a couple of hours. He must have shit himself.

Now that he has, as some might put it, walked free, I wonder now what the family fallout will be.

His mother was told this morning & since the police have finally done what they were suppose to, no-one has to worry about him getting wind of it & losing the element of surprise. – Fat lot of good that did I must say.

Anyway, I’ll have to come back to this later, my mind is running far too wild to even concentrate on the keys & what I’m trying to write.