Rebecca Trautloff:
CLASS OF 1978
Gaffney High SchoolClass of 1978
Gaffney, SC
West Junior High SchoolClass of 1975
Gaffney, SC
Rebecca's Story
Well lets see,when i went to school everyone thought it was cool to pick on me and tease me,If they only Knew what I was going though at home on a daily basis rhey might have been more friendly,My mother was abusive,I would sport a black eye most of the time and if it was too bad i would not come to school until it was gone.My dad frequented the 4th st. bar all the time and when he did come home My mom ws at work ,I was left in charge of my 5 younger brothers to feed,and do my chores,and home work if i had enough energy,or time.Then if my dad wasn,t drunk when he came home i had a good nights sleep,but if he was then i would have to take the kids up under the house and hide till my mom got home from work at the cotton mill,sometimes i would have to call for her to come home early.Before High school tho I think i was in 6th grade My oldest Half brother was giving my mom and dad a hard time running away from home well he decided to rape me and I didnt know how to tell them , I was 11, this went on for awhile till I avoided him every time he came around then he married a woman with 5 kids and molested 2 of those children who is richard weaver,s sister mary, He goes by the name david Jones,I hate him for what he done to me he has made me not trust men,And he wasnt the only one that molested me I was molested again at 13 by a family friend I was babysitting for. and then again by the naext door neighbor, and I was raised to do what ever and adult told you to do Yes sir and no sir no questions about it, and sex was never brought up in conversation back then you do what you were told or get your ass beat.... What all I had to go through just to get an education,and when i got to school was picked on there too,Wow,And people wonder why people turn out the way we do.but Her abuse had no reflection on me raising my children,I said i was not going to raise my children that way,but when one of my brothers burned her house down which caused her to have to move in with me because her and my dad were seperated by then,I felt bad for her because I was a girl,even tho she did treat me bad,her sons never offered to help her in anyway,her husband even tho she was married to him for 23 years and of that he was in active duty AirForce for 10 years while they were married she didnt get anything from it ,no insurance,or allotment,or allimony,so she had nothing but us kids to help her.When the Child abuse case came up where she was abusing my children and I went to Jail for hiding out my last child,I then decided to have nothing to do with My own mom.How sad,all because the government refused to help and turn things around when thats not the way the system is supposed to work.Come to find out It was all about the money Cherokee Co.needed the money to operate the foster care system or they would loose funds and in order to do that they went out collecting kids that got child support and raked in the bucks.And the kids didnt benefiet from it the foster care system did.By the time the kids got out they had no more money or anything to show for their child support and if you were lucky you might not get a bill from foster care.And what I learned They took my kids,gave them to their dad ,I ...Expand for more
didnt want that because I knew their dad didnt want them I DID,Thats why I had them.but DSS thought we do whats best for the kids and when they gave my son to his dad,his dad threatened him every day while he was with him,saying things Like didnt want you we can go hunting and an accident can happen and you get killed no one will know because everyone knows me..What kind of life is that for my child to live,my son didnt deserve that,what does DSS know,half of them dont even have kids,they only read books on how to raise them but never experience it on a daily basis.I took a psycological like they requested but they would not honor it in court because they wanted me to go to their doctors,I refused because I knew what they were trying to do.And it didnt work.And thats the vey reason I did not let them get their hands no my last child because these people are crazy,they let sex abusers get their kids back but I couldnt have mine?And also I wasnt even allowed to take my own kids to hardees or mcDonalds without getting in trouble with my mom even tho I was the one working at stouffers and making the money that was the Abuse I was still gowing thu at age 30 in my own house...So yeah she had to go but in the right way not on the street ,but a nursing home or something,I mean you put a dog in a shelter,Right? gota do it the right way even tho she did what she did. No not happening again,Not in Sc,Not in this life or any other time, I was a hard worker and never botherd no one my mom had all my money tied up in my bank account so bad I had to get 3 loans to cover all the checks she wrote on my account.so before we pass judgement make sure you actully know whats realy going on with some one And then 2 of my brothers went to CA to visit their Grandma and stopped over in Sanfransico greyhound Tolley didnt know about the way people out there were nobody botherd to tell him the facts of life and his brother Jack didnt escort him to the bathroom thinking he would be OK well he wasnt and he was 11 jack 16 and some one hit him from behind and he was drug into a stall and raped it wasnt till a few years later we learned my brother after marring and fathering a child he had AIDS he died 1998 the child was in his mothers care where he was raped by a former classmate of mine billy olmstead my nephew michael was only 4 years old I cried when I got the news.And now both of his parents are dead my brother Jack adopted him, but he is a product of Tolley and he has been in trouble in Fla, now he is in TN God be with him. .And after all that, It didnt cause me to be a susan smith,or rob a bank I just kept on working and trying to help other people worse than me,The only thing I hate about all this is when they took my kids they could have kept them together,but instead they seperated them,and not just the girls from the boys they seperated them all by my son in one place for all boys, my oldest daughter in another and my other daughter in another, and to this very day they still dont know each other that well to get along,..How effd up they messed up my whole family while I broke the chain of abuse.Now I have 5- granchildren and loven every minute of it. Rebecca T Still haten SC/CPS-DSS
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