Elishaba Doersken spoke with Alaska Public Media's Casey Grove about her life before and after her escape — and what it took to finally write about it.
Elishaba Doerksen, oldest of 15 Pilgrim Family siblings, has written a book about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, Robert Hale, known as Papa Pilgrim. This interview contains accounts of sexual violence and childhood sexual abuse.
And then, when I was even around seven, what I was experiencing was, he would make me his little girl, and I’d sleep with him at night, and I’d be on his good side. And then the next moment, within just a flash of a second, I could be thrown out and be a servant to the family, where I’m hauling wood, and I’m hauling water, and I’m not allowed to eat. And I’m just crying and getting whippings all throughout the day. And I would watch my own siblings go through the same thing.
And my father decided that he was going to go into the little town and McCarthy and get some fuel. Normally I wasn’t allowed out of his sight — like seriously not allowed out of his sight. But this time he left me at home because he didn’t want me to be seen by my brothers. And once he disappeared I threw a whole bunch of food and supplies onto the snowmachine, but it wouldn’t start. He had sabotaged all the snowmachines before he left.
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