My dad not being able to care for eight children, we were placed in foster care. In one of many foster homes I was in during the next six years, I was brutally beaten by one of the ex-foster boys still living in the home. When I became of age I met a man and married. After nine years of being with a man that was insecure, possessive, and demanding I got out of the marriage. I immediately got involved with another man that promised me the moon. The physical, emotional, and sexual abuse began right away. It was a living nightmare of hell. I tried to leave him many times but he would find me, beat and rape me. He had raped me of my self esteem, dignity and I felt I couldn