My name is Daniel and I'm 21 years old and this is about my lost childhood between the ages of 3 and 18 thanks to my physicaly and mentally abusive stepfather Joseph lamont Shorrock.

And to those people foolish enough to believe there is and excuse for Domestic Violence! THERE'S NOT AND NEVER WILL BE

Growing up in our household you soon learnt there was no such thing as a accident for the rest of the family and that the only person that could say that it was accident was Joe.

A lot of what Joe did to me happen on the mainland when he was in the army and I was always told never to talk about was happening at home.

He would always blame mum or it was accident when he abused us it was never his fault.

In Bothwell Matthew and I was in the woodshed splitting wood and the handle of the axe broke, we fixed it with a metal handle one, but when Joe got home and saw the axe he got us to come outside and went nuts throwing all the axes at us he had only just missed us as we had gotten behind the boat.

There was many times where he punched, kicked or grabbed my by the hair and dragged me outside and would push me into walls and yelling in my face to hit him but I was always to scared and afraid of him ever to fight back I was only a child.

To Joe, I have long hated you for the things you have done to me and my family! I haven't forgotten the blackeyes, the broken finger or you trying to sufferacate me with pillows.

Or having you shout at Matthew and myself to leave the house and not to come back until you called because you want to talk to mum because of accident and they were accidents like a broken glass or a plate, mum would always say she did it! and when we were allowed back in you wouldn't allow us to see mum and when we finally did she her the next day mum would have bruises all over her and would hardly be able to walk.

I want to know did it make you feel like a man causing so much pain and fear. The one thing that really stands out is the night you lost control and didnt care that we were inside and could see you ripping the bedsheets off mum and her nightie off her with you shouting Thats it out you go bitch out on the street and seeing her struggling to stop you and seeing her nake crawling under the bed to get away from you and hearing the pain and fear in her voice as she cried. And the day I joinned the army was just to get away from you and that day was bittersweet for me! Sweet because i was finally getting away from you and bitter because I had to leave mum and Matthew in your cruel hands.

I'm using my birth name because I never want any part of your name.

And remember one thing I'm no longer a child for you to abuse mentally and physically But a MAN A REAL MAN UNLIKE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One thing I will say is that you have been lucky never to be caught or the drink driving that you have done but one day your luck will run out.

late July I had the pleasure of being informed that you Joseph Lamont Shorrock have finally been done for D.U.I and have lost your licence for six months slowly but surely your record is starting to look not so very clean

JOSEPH LAMONT SHORROCK YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A MONSTER AND YOU DESERVE EVERYTHING YOUR GOT COMING.

I'm Matthew and at the time of writing this I'm 14 years old soon to be 15, my father Joseph Lamont Shorrock's way of teaching me to swim was to throw me into the water and watch me struggle and go under and not do a thing about it apart from yelling at me to swim or drown and then mum was in the water carrying me out of there I was 7 at the time and I still cant stand to be near the water when he is around as I dont trust him! You made sure we didn't trust you with the abuse, you would grab my hair and drag me around behind you, make me pick up dog poo with my bare hands and threaten me with making me eat it, or the times when you would trash the bedroom in the middle of the night because it wasn't done the way YOU liked it and then pull me off the top bunk on to the floor and kick me telling me I had only a certain amount of time to redo the room and not to fall asleep and I couldn't help but fall asleep and knowing what would happen, being awoken up by you hitting and kicking me. How I hated you and never wanted you to ever come home and you always had to blame someone it was never your fault what you did to us. I can remember you coming home not saying a thing but looking everywhere until you found something and then you would start shouting at mum and dragging her into the toilet to show her the webs that she had missed when cleaning and then slapping her for letting the house get dirty. Nor will I ever forget what  you said or did the day we fled the house in November, we had made it into the next door yard and mum told me to knock on the door as she sore from the abuse you inflected on her that night and I saw you stop at the gate and you yelled that you would fix the car so we would die, and I saw you open the car door and lift the bonnet up by then I was yelling for Paul.

Paul and Dave came out and mum told them what you had done and they also saw the car bonnet up and came over to check the car to see if you had time to do anything but you didnt have the time to do anything apart from lifting the bonnet! what a outstanding father you are.

I will leave it here for now because I find it upsetting to talk about

matthew .

He would make us pick out or favourite toys and then destroy them either by hitting them with a axe or pouring petrol on them and setting them alight.And if mum a fit dad would kick her in the head or shoulders and always the death threats if we told anyone what happens here.

Dad would send me txt messages telling me how much he loved me, what a liar he is because he doesn't know what love means and I hope to God that NO other child falls into your hands so you can abuse them like you did to Daniel and myself!

Dad you told me that we could have the house, but that was a lie!

And I'm sick of everyone else in our family taking the blame for you and the way you treated us look to yourself because you are the only one to blame for Daniel and myself never wanting to see you again nor will I ever trust another word you say.

Daniel and I had gone to the police to see about charging Joseph Lamont Shorrock, with CHILD ABUSE, but he has always had luck on his side because assualt has only 6 months time limit where charges can be laid Daniel's run out 3 years ago and mine was May this year.

And I will do my up most to see that JUSTICE is done and you end up in Prison where you deserve to be

I hope anyone reading this will write to the Department of Justice of Tasmania and see that this crimanil looses he job

from one of two boys who has lost his childhood to Joseph Lamont Shorrock.

On Saturday 5th May, mum had been at a dogshow most of the morning so I went there to see if she needed any help, at first I didn't see mum, but what I did see scarced me, I had seen my father Joseph Lamont Shorrock hiding behind a car watching something, I looked in that direction and saw my mother, I walked quickly over to my mum and told her and pointed him out and once he realize he had been seen he moved and I had thought he had left but no mum and I both saw him again in a different spot hiding in the shadows.

It scares me to think he is stalking mum again

As of 31st May 07 we finally got our home back only to find out that he had cleaned out the garage of everything we owned including my clothes and games, he just keeps proving to me what a terrible person he is, mum told us not to worry about it and to look to the future we can start a fresh with nothing in our home to remind us of the abuse we had suffered by him.

We still get the odd threat in our guestbook, but at least the Navy had finally done something about the threats coming from the Dept of Defence as the army did nothing to stop both Joseph lamont shorrock and his lover from making continually threats using the dept of defence computers. The last threat had been traced to the dept of Ed which covers libraries,schools of course and some parts of the prison.

I will never speak  to or have any contact with Joseph Lamont Shorrock or his very sick family as I no longer consider them as part of my family

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