This is Jess's story.
I was born in a small town in the southeastern corner of Oklahoma. My mother was 15, and my father just 18 years old. My mother and father made a great team, they were only married a short time but remained friends and did the best they could to raise me. My mother worked long hours at Tyson’s hatchery sorting out baby chickens and my father for a local tire shop. I lived with my mother in a small apartment and had weekend visitations with my father. Some of my earliest memories are of that apartment. I spent a lot of time with people from our apartment complex that would babysit me while my mother worked. Around the age of four and five I was molested. This was a very confusing time for me. I believe I started internalizing my feelings around this time. I did not tell my mother about this until I was 26 years old. I was afraid of hurting her, or that she would blame herself. .. I do not blame her.
I was born in a small town in the southeastern corner of Oklahoma. My mother was 15, and my father just 18 years old. My mother and father made a great team, they were only married a short time but remained friends and did the best they could to raise me. My mother worked long hours at Tyson’s hatchery sorting out baby chickens and my father for a local tire shop. I lived with my mother in a small apartment and had weekend visitations with my father. Some of my earliest memories are of that apartment. I spent a lot of time with people from our apartment complex that would babysit me while my mother worked. Around the age of four and five I was molested. This was a very confusing time for me. I believe I started internalizing my feelings around this time. I did not tell my mother about this until I was 26 years old. I was afraid of hurting her, or that she would blame herself. .. I do not blame her.
