The Devil's Knights

By Lawson and Patricia Harris

This book is based upon the cruelty that the Devils Knights inflicts on innocents. How ones determination and drive can overcome adversities. That at the end of the long dark tunnel, theres still hope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781503557987

Lawson

My name is Patricia Harris- Lawson. I was born in Mississippi. I have two brothers and two sisters, one of which my father had. We moved to Chicago when I was at the age of four and I’ve been here ever since. I have six beautiful children and five grandchildren so far, and they have been a blessing to me. My husband, Antonious, and I have been together now for twenty-six years and married for ten of those. I couldn’t have asked for a better husband; he’s been with me through a lots of hard times and made them better. I am an evangelist now, spreading God’s good news, love, joy, peace, and hope. To God be all the glory.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Lust for Children

Chapter 2 Nightmares

Chapter 3 Total Recall

Chapter 4 The Serious Talk

Chapter 5 The Corridor of Flames

Chapter 6 The drive by

Chapter 7 The issue of blood

Chapter 8 Taking away one’s dignity

Chapter 9 The stepfather

Chapter 10 A new birth

Chapter 11 A father’s sin

Chapter 12 Deceptions

Chapter 13 Introduction into a new world

Chapter 14 The humiliation of it all

Chapter 15 Finding true love

Chapter 16 The party from hell

Chapter 17 The beating

Chapter 18 The ghosts

Chapter 19 The vivid dream

Chapter 20 The Pastor with the gym bag

Chapter 21 The church falls

Chapter 22 The lost of a great lady

Chapter 23 Back flashes

Chapter 24 A walking Miracle

Chapter 25 The young man with a gun

In Conclusion

I decided that enough is enough, something needs to be done, and someone needs to tell what it is like to be abuse as a little child, and some of the terrible things they have to encounter because of the lustful crime that has been committed against them. There are no words that I know that could really properly express how I feel, I hate child molesters and know in my heart that they will be judged by God in the end. When my daughter’s little friend shared what had happen to her, I told them then that I was going to write a book so mother’s will listen to their children and hopefully children won’t be afraid to tell what happen to them, that they will tell someone they feel comfortable with. I dedicate this book to my children and grandchildren, and to all the other children around the world that’s being molested or abused. I thank God for the inspiration to write this book and share my story.

CHAPTER 1

It was a steaming hot and muggy night when I looked into the eyes of a demon His eyes was as red as fire, His teeth sharp as knives. The stench from its present was fowl as the putrefied smell of rotting animals. It touch me on the shoulder very lightly, I smacked my shoulder thinking it was a spider or some other kind of insect, whatever it was had gone away, so I start falling back asleep and there was the same feeling once again creeping along my shoulder as I lay there in bed, (only five years of age at the time), I truly was horrified but couldn’t bring myself to scream. I closed my eyes tightly in fear and turned toward the wall thinking it would go away, but it didn’t….. it waited a minute, then I felt another touch on my shoulder pulling me around so that I would be facing toward the ceiling, as I lay there trembling in fear with my eyes shut tightly, it begin to slowly raise up my gown, then pulled my under ware down, I felt the hot sweat from his face dripping on my legs, the demon proceeded to get on top of me. It wasted no time about what it wanted to do. The next thing I knew it start sweating drips of fowl smelling sweat, falling all in my face from his chest, I barely could breathe. His motion started to move faster and faster, and then a jerking of its body. The next thing I felt was him urinating on my thighs and all over my little gown (as I got older I learned that he masturbated and didn’t urinate). He then got up and left the room. I was very confuse afraid couldn’t sleep that night thinking that he was coming back, I didn’t know what to do and on top of that I was shaking with fear couldn’t sleep the rest of the night and so afraid to leave the room. I plan in my little mind that when morning come that I would immediately tell my aunt Joselin what had happen to me during the night and what her husband had done to me. As I thought about what I was going to say the cock crowed it was morning. I jumped from under the covers and ran to the bathroom, because I knew my aunt would be there like always first thing in the mornings, and thank the lord I was right, she was in there brushing her teeth, as I sat on the toilet I heard a stern voice, it was my uncle Jerome, saying Joselin are you making breakfast, and she replied in a minute, I looked at her and told her that I really need to talk to her, my uncle knew I was in the bathroom, so he tried to get my aunt away from me as soon as possible, he called her out the bathroom to help him button his sleeve on his work shirt, as I came out of the washroom, he grin at me and said, good morning did you have a goodnight sleep, I just turn and walked away, my aunt called me back and said, didn’t you hear your uncle talking to you say good morning, I said yes maim and I told him good morning and ran to the kitchen. My aunt Joselin came into the kitchen and said would you like to help out with the breakfast? I replied yes, she told me to go wash up and put on the clothes I’ve laid out for you on the bed, when you’re done come on back in the kitchen and help. I went back to the room wondering why she didn’t ask who wet the bed, when I got back to the room I felt the bed to see if it was wet and it was dry, I couldn’t believe it, I had planned in my little mind that I would use the bed being wet to tell my aunt what my uncle had done to me, now the bed is dry and I don’t know how I’m going to tell her, but I knew I had to tell her. I got a shaking feeling all over trying to think how I was going to tell her what had happen, then I thought to myself, I’ll ease it out to her while helping out with breakfast and just tell the truth and she’ll believe me and take care of the rest. I put my clothes on and went and started toward the kitchen as I passed their bedroom I could see him out of their window in the garden with hoe chopping weeds, my aunt was over by the stove putting water on for grits, she said Rebecca didn’t you say you had something to tell me? I immediately start telling her what happen thinking that my uncle would walk in, I told her that uncle Jerome came in the room last night and touch me and wet the bed, and that I was very scared to get up last night to tell her. She left the stove and slumped in the chair, she said are you sure that you weren’t having a bad dream? I said yes because he pee peed in the bed and now it’s dry, she jumped up and turned the stove off and stormed outside. I rushed to their bedroom window so I can see her telling him what I had told her and his reaction. She proceeded telling him what I told her and he put both hands on top of the hoe then he laid his chin on top of his hands and shook his head as if I was lying, I got nervous again, they both looked toward the window at me, my aunt start coming back toward the house she came in the bedroom and said Rebecca you shouldn’t make up lies like that, I’m going to call your mom and tell her how you been lying about things that wasn’t true, now I don’t want to hear you say such horrible things about your uncle again understand, my heart just dropped in my stomach, I said yes maim, then we all sat and had breakfast, that truly was very uncomfortable. Later on after breakfast my father came over to see me, I was soooooo….. Happy to see him and I told him what had happen and that my aunt called me a liar, he said she did huh; he left out of the kitchen and went into the driveway where my uncle was talking with one of his friends. I ran to the porch to see what was going to happen next, My father ask to speak to him alone, but he refused, so my father grabbed him by the arm and told him no man, you’re going to talk to me now, my uncle snatched his arm from him and said what’s this all about, my father said oh…… I think you know what it’s about, my father just out of the blue punched him to the ground, my uncle got up and they went to throwing punches, my aunt and my uncle’s friend tried breaking up the fight but with no success until some neighbors helped, my father grabbed me and put me in his car, he got in the car and yelled this isn’t over I’ll be back, we drove off immediately, while on the way over to his sister’s house, he huffed and puffed then he ask me was I okay, told me he was going to call mom as soon as we got to his sister’s house. Once at his sister’s house, he jumped out of the car and ran up on the porch and called out to my aunt Nancy, he told her to look after me while he makes a phone call. My father called my mom and told her he was keeping me and my brother until she came back to Mississippi, he told her all that happen. My mother asked to speak to me but when I got the phone I barely could understand what she was saying she was crying and very upset, Mom told me that she’ll be down here at the end of the week. I started crying too, I asked her was she alright? She said no not until I get to you and Matt (my brother) She told me she love me and to tell my brother she loves him too and that she will see us both Friday. Friday came by quickly for me and Matt, because once we got to my father’s house we felt safe and relived. We had lots of fun with dad and his parents. Mom and stepfather Nathan arrive at 10:00am that morning, dad was up before the cock crowed, when I saw my stepfather’s car coming I felt a warm since of relief knowing how she would go over to aunt Joselin’s house and get to the bottom of this horrible thing that happen to me. My mother kissed and hugged my little brother and me and got in the car, she wanted to go and confront her sister and to ask her why she didn’t believe me. I didn’t want to back over to that house but mom insisted, When we got there my mom’s other sister Aunt Victoria was there and my cousin Mary. While the adults were in the house my cousin and I played outside in the backyard, then she whisper to me everybody is talking about what happen to me and that he touched her too, but she was too afraid to tell what happen. I told her if she want I’ll go with her to tell her mom, she said no because they won’t believe me, I told her my dad and mom believed me and her mom will too (how wrong was I). The next thing you know we heard yelling and fussing, my mom storms out the screen door and walk down the road to Aunt Victoria’s house, me Mary and my brother went running behind her. We gets to my aunt house and mom goes straight toward the kitchen where auntie is making lunch and starting dinner, She said it’s a darn shame that this has happen, I knew that man couldn’t be trusted as soon as I laid my eyes on him. My cousin and I looked at each other, because in our little minds we just knew if she said that then she would believe Mary when we tell her what happen to her. So we waited until she was done cooking and settle down a bit, we both went into her room where she was sitting mending a shirt, My cousin was afraid to tell her, so I spoke up for her, I told my aunt that uncle Jerome has touched Mary in the wrong places and that she was scared to tell her that’s why I’m telling you for her. My aunt dropped that shirt and needle to her lap and said…. Now I know that’s a lie, you’re just saying that because your cousin Rebecca Ann said it happen to her, my cousin started crying, and said but it is true you got to believe me, but instead of her own mother believing in her she gave her a beating for telling on my uncle Jerome unlike me. My little heart was so hurt, who would have ever thought for telling the truth you get a beating. After the whipping was over my aunt yells at my cousin and told her to go outside and play until dinner time, as she went to the porch I followed and wept for her, because it was my idea to tell her mother what had happen. I truly believed that her mom would’ve responded the same way my parents, she cried and said….. why my mom wouldn’t believe me, I look back at her and said I don’t know and I’m sorry for what happen to you, I hugged her tightly. Mother yelled from the backyard and said that we were about to leave go get your brother and lets go. Mary and I went to get my brother Matt down from a neighbor’s house and came right back mom was waiting, she loaded us in the car and we said our goodbyes. When we were leaving I got on my knees in the back seat of the car to look out the back window, I saw my cousin standing there alone in the road waving. I turn to my mom and asked her can we take her with us, she replied she have to go to school like you and Matt maybe when schools out for summer she can come visit, I’ll talk with my sister okay? I was very pleased to hear her say that I felt a lot better. On our way back my mom asked me why was Mary crying on the porch when we were getting ready to leave? I told her, She said why didn’t you tell me while we was there so I could have told your aunt instead of you girls alone and things wouldn’t have got out of hand like that, she then turn to me and said I love you and your brother very much and I want to help your cousin but you must understand that everyone don’t react the same, that’s why I wish you and your cousin had of come to me, It’ll be okay when we get back I’ll call my sister and have a long talk with her about your cousin, I said but if you say something about what happen she may get another beating, my mom promised that this wouldn’t happen. My mom turned back toward the front and asked my stepfather Nathan would he turn off the highway to the area so everybody can stretch their legs a bit and eat, so we turn off the highway into the resting area. The resting area had a playground there for children, my brother and I rushed out of the car toward the play area, my stepfather watches us while my mother goes into the shop for drinks and snacks, Matt and I played for a while until mom called us to the table to eat, afterward my brother and I headed toward the restrooms, everything looked normal other families there enjoying themselves watching the children play. When I approached the restroom I felt an uneasiness in my body, as if I were being watched. I slowly approached the doorway, as I open the door it was a man standing in the women bathroom, I screamed mommy, my mom stepfather and other people ran toward me, the man in the bathroom said calm down I only was using the women restroom because the men restroom is out of order, I’m sorry for any confusion I may have caused. My mom grabbed me and yelled at the man saying you should’ve had someone standing outside the door so kids just can’t walk in on you like that especially little girls, you just can’t go around using women bathrooms without someone knowing, look what just happen you terrified my daughter. The man apologized again and went his way. Mom went into the restroom with me fussing all the way in and all the way out mumbling about after what just happen to you I don’t want anything like that to ever happen again. We loaded everything back in the car and hit the highway. Matt and I fell asleep until we arrived back home in Chicago. I was happy to be home, but I missed my knight in shining armor my father and my cousin. The next morning my mom was on the phone, I asked her who was she talking to and she said your aunt Victoria, I looked at her and she looked back and pointed to the chair at the table in the family room motioning for me to take a seat, I listen as they talked like everything was okay. My mom handed the phone to me and said someone wants to talk to you, at first I was hesitant but then I got up and reached for the phone, it was my cousin Mary, she sounded happy and excited about school. Mary told me that my mom had told her that my brother and I was going to spend summer vacation with our father, and that my mom asked her mom could she spend the weekends over with me at my fathers, and her mom agreed, we both shouted with joy over the phone, that’s when mom said okay little lady go and wake your brother for school, so I told my cousin bye and I would talk to her soon gave the phone back to mom and went to wake up my brother for school. The school year went by fairly quick always when you’re having fun. My mom did everything she could to keep my mind off of the terrible incident that happen, but she couldn’t….., I start having these bad dreams horrible nightmares, I would always wake up crying, mother would rush into the room grab me hug me and rock backwards and forward crying herself saying it’ll be okay, sometimes she would sleep with me the rest of the night. It was two months before school would be out, and because of the horrible dreams I was having made me wonder if I really wanted to go back to Mississippi, but when I got to thinking about my father and his parents who loved me dearly made me want to go all the more. So now school is out mom making lots of phone calls, shopping for summer clothes and swimming suits, later on that evening we began to pack. I packed my favorite dolls my brother packed his train set, mother always allowed us to take at least one toy with us on vacation. My father took the car to the gas station to get it washed and filled with gas, when he returned we packed up and hit the highway again. We sang tunes and played Simon says. When we got closer for some reason my mom didn’t have to say we’re almost here, I already knew, this time on the trip I got this nervous feeling inside like I had when I was telling my aunt Joselin about my uncle Jerome. I got silent my mind started to drift, I saw a flash of that fowl smelling demon, my mom was calling me, I heard her but I didn’t hear her, then she touch me and said Rebecca do you hear me calling your name, I said yes mom I can hear you, then she said we’re almost at your father’s house. I looked at my brother he looked at me we both shouted at the same time for joy. We pulled up in the driveway I saw my father grandparents sitting on the porch waiting for our arrival, it was a wonderful sight to see. We went inside the house where my other aunts and uncles all sitting around joking, playing chess, cards and music. My other cousins on my father’s side of the family was all present. It was so much food that I got full just from looking at it all. We all talked about how we missed each other, there was lots of hugs kisses, and Love. My uncles played football while the ladies sat down to pick Collards greens, and prepared for dinner we children played games and talked about school, friends and activities that we were in at our schools.

CHAPTER 2

The trip was great when we started out but got a little bit unusual toward the end, after eating all that food I was about to burst. My grandmother scooped me up in her arms and hugged me really tight like she didn’t want to let me go, then it was my brothers’ turn, he ran like always. Everyone hugged each other said our goodbye’s and start heading towards my father’s house. When we got there I open the screen door who but my cousin Mary was sitting on the couch, we ran towards each other with happiness, we hugged one another locked hands and skipped on out the front door while the grown up talked. When we got outside we picked up a couple of pails and stroll down to the stream in back of the houses, That’s where my father taught me and Matt how to fish, Mary and I was not fishing that day, we were going to get water to make mud pies and mud cakes. We got our water and headed back towards the back of the house, we gather more items that we needed such as toy dishes, cups, plastic spoons, forks and big bowls of dirt, as we played cooking we started talking about our teachers, classmate, and some of the nasty foods with no flavor we had for lunch at school. I just had to ask….. Have uncle Jerome ever touch you again, she said I really don’t want to talk about that anymore with a sad expression on her face, I told her that’s okay I know how you feel. I told her that I’ve been having awful dreams since uncle Jerome did what he had done to me, I’ve been waking up crying sometimes not remembering what I’d dream about but scared, mom always come in to make sure I’m okay, but now I get this eerie feeling when I’m around some grown up, how about you? Then she said no I haven’t been having bad dreams but I get angry a lot, and no he hasn’t touch me again since uncle Jerome and your father had that fight. Soon as she began to tell me something else my brother and her brother Don walked up interrupting as usual. Matt and Don sat down and started teasing, I told them to go on and play ball or something stop being so nosey, and this is where everything hits the fan, my brother approached me with in his hand in his pocket, he said to me I got some candy here, I reached out my hand open it, and he gave it to me alright, it was a baby frog, I screamed the frog got startled and urinated in my hand. I got a wart right after that in the middle of my hand, I ran inside to tell grandmother, she went to the back and called my brother, when he got to the backdoor my grandmother approached him and said now grandson why you put that frog in your sister’s hand when you know that she’s scared of creepy things. She tapped him on the back of his hand and sent him on his way, in my mind I’m thinking that’s it, I got a wart and he gets a smack on the backside of his hand. I went on back playing cooking. Around 5:00pm my mom called out to my brother and me to let us know that she’s about leave and go to her parents. Father Sisters were also getting ready to leave for home; we all hugged and said our goodbyes. My stepmom Laura Jean told us three to go and wash up for dinner and afterwards we’re all going over to my dad other sister house aunt Maggie. Afterwards we all got in the car and drove to auntie house, it was very late when we left, when we got back home it was time for bed, my cousin and I took a bath together and got ready for bed. In the middle of the night I woke up with fear sweating and shaking, I looked over at my cousin and she was sound asleep, as I turned toward the wall I saw this dark shadow coming through the wall, it was a silhouette figure of a tall man with a brim hat a long trench coat and with a big thick chain coming from his hand to the neck of this huge shadowy beast. I let out a scream but there was no sound coming out, I froze in a panic still screaming but no sound came out, I finally built up enough nerves to shake my cousin to awake her, I shook and shook her but she was sound asleep, then I pushed her out of the bed, she woke up then, she said what you do that for? But when she looked at me she asked what’s wrong?, she grabbed me by the shoulders and said what is it Rebecca?, I pointed to the wall and she said there’s nothing there, I told her that it was something there a tall man and a huge beast was just right there, she said I believe you, but it is gone now, come on lets go down stairs and tell your dad so he can check the house, I told her I’m scared, so we both went down stairs to tell my father about what just happen. When we gets to my father’s bedroom door we saw a dim light coming from the crack in the door so we went inside, my father was already up watching some program on television, we approached the bed and my father jumped to cover himself, because he was lying in his boxers and didn’t want us to see him that way, so he asked us to step out of the room for a second and let him put on his house pants, he came