She was abused for years by her girlfriend: Hit me with glass, hammer, laptop adapter

The abuse partner named Alex is the first woman imprisoned for abusive conduct in the United Kingdom. Now, he's trying to fight stigma from male abuse at home, translates Periscope.

Part saw Bolld It's Alex Skill's 22-year-old Alex Skeel.

I will never forget the moment that my girlfriend, Jordan, took me in with hot water. He pushed me to the corner of my room in the house where we lived together in Bedford [Bedfordshire], holding a hot jug. We were together for three years, and what she had started with minors with what she told me not to wear the gray color or that she didn't like how I kept my hair had gone through a physical abuse for nine months. I was so scared of her.

I can still see the water as it fell into my skin. Everything seemed to happen to slow down. Then your skin wait. The pain was like no other I had ever tried before. I begged him to let me go to a bathroom full of cold water. It was the only thing I thought of to stop the pain. She allowed me, and relief was immediate. You can imagine how it feels to put your body in cold water after that. It's the best thing in the world. Then she told me to get out of the bathroom or she'd shoot me again.

If I started to groan, saying it hurt, she would say, "x0..." So, get back in the bathroom. Later, he would do the same and take me out. It was all a game for him. She wanted control in all aspects of my life. I remember standing in the bathroom with no clothes on. It felt like I was in the oven, cooking. My skin is scratching. It was absolutely terrible.

Recent statistics on England and Wales show that for a year, two million youths between the ages of 16 and 59 had experienced domestic abuse - a third of them being men.

It is also estimated that one of five teenagers has been physically abused by boyfriend or girlfriend. And it makes boys worse than people think. Police in England and Wales have recorded nearly 150 thousand domestic violence incidents occurred in 2017 against men twice the number reported in 2012, followed by Periscope from the BBC.

Jordan Worth [Jordan Worth] and I were 16 years old when we met in college in 2012. She was very good at school and took up residence at the University of Hertforshire [Hertfordshire] to study fine arts. He wanted to be a teacher. In the first few months, everything was best. We had a good time together and did normal things; we watched movies or went for walks. It was new to me to tell my friends that I had a boyfriend. They said, "Oh, what did you do for the weekend?"

A few months later, however, a number of strange things happened. At that meal, it seemed to be the behavior of those who suffer for attention. My mom and dad had paid for us going to London to look at The Lion King” and, from nothing, Jordan disappeared. We were all looking for him for a while, and then, a lot later, we found him in the waiting area, laughing. It was very surprising. I think that was her way to panic and worry about it.

But not long later Jordan had completely isolated me from my friends, and my family stopped me from seeing them, and I even got on Facebook a classic tactic of domestic violence. I had no one to tell them.

She also began to deny me my bread, which caused me to lose weight. I would try to challenge her behavior, but then she would bring the whole problem back to me by making me the problem. I knew it wasn't my fault, but she kept convincing me about the opposite. You remain thinking, “What am I doing wrong? Later, she does things differently, and she starts yelling at you for doing things differently. When he was telling me, I don't like the grey color,” or “I don't like these shoes,” I thought to myself, “Okay, I don't like to run anymore,” because I wanted to make an impression. But in reality, she was shaping me into what she wanted me to be. It lowers confidence. You fight a battle that you never win. It's very irritating.

We had two children together, and I kept on hoping that something would change. The children were babies, but, of course, they should have seen what was happening, and, even if it didn't hurt them directly, my fear was that if I left, she would have mistreated my children. So I stayed.

Of course, we had good time together with Jordan when I felt happy when we laughed together and ate fun with each other. It wasn't a nightmare all the time. And I really wanted to try and make it work. I loved her, after all.

It took 18 months of mental abuse to turn this into physical abuse. She began sleeping with a mouth of water. He accused me of doing things with other girls, that I was talking or exchanging messages, which was completely false. Then he would wait until I fell asleep and stab me in the head with his mouth. It means, “What do you mean?

After a while, it came to the point of not feeling pain. I was used to it, I couldn't even feel it. So she went to another level, and she would find worse reasons to hurt me. After the glass, he went into the hammer.

Once, he hit me with the laptop adaptor. /Periscopi