By Donna Ford with Linda Watson-Brown
Abused through her stepmother among the a while of 5 and 11, Donna Ford was categorized 'the bastard', the 'little witch,' and 'the evil one.' She was once crushed, remoted, and afraid to even examine her personal mirrored image by means of actual and psychological abuse that eventually progressed to the main appalling sexual assaults. regardless of an horrendous adolescence, Donna is now a winning artist and mom of 3 with a major enthusiasm and an optimism which thoroughly belies her stories. In 2003, Donna watched as her stepmother used to be discovered responsible of 'procuring a minor' for sexual abuse and sentenced to 2 years in felony.
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No one in this picture looks particularly happy. They are standing on some paving slabs with a railing beside them and tall buildings either side. This area now has a shopping mall nearby, the St James Centre, one of the ugliest constructions in Edinburgh. It’s hardly a scene of bridal delight. There is no joy in the photograph, nothing I can really hold on to. God knows I’ve tried. This is all I have of my mother. She looks so young, her dress too big for her, a girl playing at being a bride. And yet by the time this image was taken, she had already been the subject of scandal, ripped her own family apart, shamed them.
What if Barnardo’s had refused to take us, or refused to accept me, and encouraged my father to keep trying, to keep plodding along and doing the best he could? But Haldane House did take me and my story went on. My mother was gone but she had left debts of hundreds of pounds, which Don Ford was paying off on her behalf. 6d for a fireplace, sink unit and other furniture, with a total of £300 still to clear. She had also managed to run up debts with five different clothing clubs, with about £120 of arrears.
She says that she will know if I move at all, even if I move an inch. And she would know that – she knows everything. The weird feeling starts in my legs. My toes get very, very cold, so cold that I can’t really feel them. Then, even weirder, the cold doesn’t start shooting through my legs straight away. That’s what you’d expect, isn’t it? You’d think that the cold would spread up and up and up, but it seems to take a break. It gets my toes all frozen up, then stops, then starts on my fingers. It’s only once all my toes and fingers are icy that the rest of me starts to feel it.