Shattered Silence: The Akeera Jackson Chronicles

Let’s start from the beginning….

Hi, My Name is Akeera M Jackson I was born and raised in The District Of Columbia, Southeast D.C, I was always going from house to house as a kid, and my siblings and my mom were always in sorrow, we could never catch a break whatsoever. My Father Eugene Jackson was always out and about working hard to provide for me and my mom,

Meanwhile, my mom had met another guy this is where our horror story takes a turn…. his name is L Thornton, my abuser. It all started when my mom went to meet him and then we moved in with him a few months later, his mom was insane and always angry maybe it was because she was dying from aids. I could not imagine what she was going through or maybe because I didn’t understand what that felt like and I don’t think I’d ever want to.

My 9th birthday rolled around and I decided to walk with my mom's boyfriend to the store and he asked me a weird question “Do you wanna make babies.” I was so confused I didn’t know what sex was at the time. When we got back to the house he unzipped his pants let out his little man and had me do oral sex to him without my mom’s knowledge.

My mom came downstairs and was like what y’all doing down here and he quickly moved away and said “Oh, we’re just washing clothes.” that was a total lie I was so scared after all I was an innocent child he was preying on an innocent child. was hurting and I was a wounded soldier but god protected me and watched over me every day I found myself praying and I didn’t even know what praying was.

A few months later I cried out to my mom and she was asking what was wrong with me, I told her that is was her boyfriend and she was devastated she asked me what he did and I told her that he was touching me inappropriately. She signed and grabbed a knife pointing it at him and he was in fear. “Did you touch my daughter, bitch.” She said out of anger no remorse what so ever in her voice.

She didn’t believe a word that came out of my mouth she was blinded by their love when it wasn’t even love it was nothing more than lust, they listed after each other. She believed this predator over her own daughter who was being preyed on.

I cried every single day I was contemplating committing suicide but I didn’t wanna do that to my mom or my siblings who claimed to love me dearly. He was more than I ever was to my mother. it really hurt my soul to hear that from my own mother. So I started cutting myself to numb the pain but all it was doing was making the pain worse.

I then tried to hang myself but my siblings caught me and they told our mother she was sick. She took me to children’s to get me diagnosed and I was then diagnosed with anxiety and panic attack disorder.

It made me fear even more because know I had something else I had to deal with. I had to get on medication for god knows how long it would be. I always thought medication would be just putting a bandaid over the real issue and it was because they tell you it’ll make you worse before it makes you any better.