š² For two weeks, my daughter would wake up in the middle of the night, screaming, “No, stop, it hurts!” When I found out what was happening, I was paralyzed. I couldnāt believe it.
Iām a single father. My wife left when our daughter was only two years old, and since then, Iāve been raising her on my own. Sheās now six.
One night, around 2 a.m., I was woken up by piercing screams. My heart racing, I jumped out of bed and rushed to her room.
She was sitting on her bed, her fists clenched around her blanket, tears streaming down her cheeks. Her eyes were filled with terror. She kept repeating, “No, stop, it hurts!” over and over, as if she were talking to someone, but I didnāt see anyone.
Gently, I took her in my arms, trying to reassure her, even though I still didnāt understand what was happening.
“Sweetheart, you’re safe. There’s nothing and no one that can hurt you. Daddy’s here, Iāll protect you.”
She calmed down in my arms, and eventually, she fell asleep. I went back to my room, thinking it was just a bad dream.
But this scene repeated itself for two weeks. Every night, sheād wake up screaming in total terror. I started to get worried.
I decided to set up a camera in her room, without telling her. I wanted to understand exactly what was going on. What I discovered after watching the footage chilled me to the bone.
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I couldnāt believe it.
In the recording, I clearly heard my daughter, still crying, screaming, “Stop, Karen! It hurts!”
My heart stopped.
Karen? That was her cousin, a teenager I had always welcomed into our home during holidays.
I had never imagined that she could do anything wrong.
The next day, I gently confronted my daughter, asking if she could explain to me what was happening at night.
After a long moment of hesitation, she whispered that she was afraid of Karen, that Karen was hurting her when she thought no one was watching.
I was paralyzed with anger and disbelief.
How could she have dared?
But one thing was clear: action had to be taken, and quickly.










