My parents were both paedophiles, my mum’s partner said I couldn’t ‘grow up frigid’ so made us watch them have sex
A WOMAN has revealed the horrific abuse she went through as a child, claiming her parents knew about it the whole time.
Lisa Plumb, from Phoenix, Arizona, bravely opens up about the traumatic events and how she healed.
She sat down to discuss how she was regularly passed around to older men from at the least the age of five and was even forced to watch her mum have sex.
Lisa says her parents looked like something from a 1950s magazine, put together, innocent and safe but they were anything but.
At the age of five, she recalls her mum attempted suicide as she and her dad divorced.
For a while, Lisa’s grandmother looked after the children while her mum went away, but when she came back she was a single woman ready to party.
“A single mother with issues is a paedophile magnet. And that’s exactly what my mother was,” she said.
She recalled the first time it happened was when a man had offered to help her mum out by looking after her and her siblings while she was at work.
During that time he began to molest Lisa and told her that her mum would die if she told anyone.
Being just five, Lisa didn’t even have the vocabulary to discuss what he was doing to her or understand it – but when her sister walked in on the abuse she was quick to tell their father.
Unfortunately, it seemed he couldn’t care less as Lisa recalls: “When my father came over, he said, Lisa, ‘I understand that **** molested you. And just don’t make a big deal about it.'”
Once her mum called it off, she got a new boyfriend who began to assault Lisa as well.
“He felt that it was his moral obligation to raise us girls to not be frigid when we grew up,” she adds.
“I remember him telling me that, like, you know, I don’t want you to be frigid when you get older.”
He first started by taking the whole family to nudist camps and beaches which Lisa called a ‘paedophile magnet.’
Horrifically, he decided that wasn’t enough and decided to bring Lisa into the bedroom to watch him and her mother have sex.
Sexual abuse in numbers
669,000 adults are sexually assaulted in England and Wales every year
- 1 in 5 women (8m) in the UK have been sexually abused
- 1 in 6 men (5m) in the UK have been sexually abused
- 1 in 20 children in the UK have been sexually abused
Sexual abuse has been attributed to:
- 15% of all suicides in the UK
- 11% of all common mental health disorders in the UK
- 7% of alcohol dependence disorders
- 10% of drug dependence disorders
- 15% of eating disorders
- 17% of post-traumatic stress disorders
(Source: Safeline)
The relationship didn’t last, and Lisa was grateful he was out of their lives.
Life seemed to get better from the age of nine when her step-dad came onto the scene, she said he was the only parent to really care about her before he and her mum split when she was 12.
But not long after, her mum decided to send her and her siblings away for the weekend – with a couple she barely knew.
The couple were members of the same nudist camp she went to as a child, and Lisa was adamant she didn’t want to go.
Despite this, her mum made her and she was put through hell again.
The couple plied Lisa with cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana in an attempt to get Lisa to sleep with them.
While she recalls sexual abuse taking place, she says they didn’t have sex as he wanted Lisa to ask for it, something she never wanted to do.
Years later, while at school, Lisa was interviewed by police about the couple and she confirmed the two were paedophiles.
She was then moved to sheltered living for a few months before being placed back in her mum’s care.
She recalled her mum calling her a ‘s**t’ and said her dad looked down on her for getting someone arrested for sexual abuse.
Lisa explained: “If you want to have sex with a man, a woman, a child, that’s fine, that’s like the religion that he lived in. That I might be responsible for somebody getting busted for that, definitely made him look down on me more.”
Eventually, Lisa was able to get away, she found religion, got sober and met her husband and had children.
But when the police called her up years later to testify against one of her abusers, the bottled-up emotions poured out of Lisa.
She decided the hurt was no longer hers to carry and decided to confront each abuser – including her dad.
When he came over she told him about the horrific abuse she had endured and his response was shocking.
“He’s like, wow, Lisa, you had quite an extensive sex life. And I was offended and hurt,” she recalled
“And then before I had a chance to say anything, he said, and children under the age of three don’t remember anything.”
She later revealed that her father was a teacher and she knew he had molested young boys as a victim came forward to speak to her.
Asked if she thought her parents were both paedophiles, Lisa quickly responded ‘yes.’
Now, Lisa has focused on her own family with her husband as she navigates the trauma she has been through.
She is also a therapist specialising in children and marriages to help others.
The interview conducted by Soft White Underbelly went viral with over 4.9 million views.
People were quick to praise Lisa’s bravery in the comments section.
One person wrote: “Imagine being treated this way your entire life. It is a miracle she grew up to be so kind and dignified.”
Another commented: “This woman is incredibly strong. I can’t imagine describing all those horrific events with a calm tone.”
“Never in this life did I envision this level of child sexual abuse in the presence of their parent. Extremely disturbing! Lisa, I applaud your courage and resilience,” penned a third.
Meanwhile a fourth said: “It’s insane how she was just surrounded by monsters. Not a single responsible and compassionate adult in her life for so many years. Heartbreaking. I hope she can find peace.”
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