Help Alexis Young Escape a Traumatic Past

My name is Alexis Young and I need help getting out of Alabama. The reason I want to get out of here is because when I was 10 through 16 I was being raped, drugged, and sodomized by my aunt Michelle and her husband Jeremy. At the age of 10, my aunt groomed me into having sexual relations with her husband. In the beginning, it started with touching but after I freaked out the first time, they decided to get me drunk in order for me to be more willing to do what they wanted. That then started a horrible alcohol addiction at only 10 years old. The sexual abuse slowly grew from there. It went from touching, to oral, to penetration. The penetration started when I was only 11 years old at a cabin in Mentone, Alabama. They drugged me and gave me alcohol. I don’t remember much from that night but I do remember screaming and crying begging for him to stop while my aunt held me down. When I was 12 years old, I was introduced to marijuana for the first time which progressed into even heavier drugs which were given to me by the both of them. I was given Adderal, Xanax, Loratabs, and even Suboxone. I was addicted to all of those drugs by the time I turned 13. Nobody knew what was happening to me, not even my mom, which is why she kept letting me go over there. Anytime I tried not to go over there, I would be guilt tripped or had something that they gave me taken away. For example, Michelle and Jeremy gave me a go cart one year and because I didn’t want to come over and have sex with him, they took it away from me. I kept going back because I was scared and I was too scared to say anything because Jeremy told me that if I did then “something would happen to me and my family.” Hearing that at such a young age scared me to death. I didn’t want anything to happen to my family so I sucked it up and kept going. Not to mention I was heavily addicted to the drugs they were giving me and the only way I could get them was if I went over there. Jeremy and Michelle would also video tape and take pictures of me when the abuse was happening. I never thought this would end until I turned 16. Michelle had me write a break up letter to Jeremy saying that I didn’t want to continue with this “relationship” anymore. And that’s how it stopped. After that, I got clean and graduated from high school. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. When I turned 18 I went to the Pelham police department and told my detective everything that had happened to me. Now they are both in prison for 27 years. But I wish the story ended there. I now have to deal with horrible PTSD, nightmares, and I have a condition called POTS syndrome because of them. My day to day life is extremely difficult causing it to make working really hard. I deal with almost passing out everyday. I get lightheaded, my heart races, and my blood pressure either drops or gets way too high. Sleeping is hard too. The only way I can sleep without nightmares is by taking my trazadone. But even then I still get nightmares sometimes.

I tell you this horrible story because my childhood was completely ripped away from me and because I don’t want to live in Alabama anymore. My dream is to move to Florida with my now fiancé and start my own family away from the place I call hell. I don’t want to be anywhere near here by the time they get released. Michelle and Jeremy got arrested in 2019 and they are expected to get out by 2046. I know that might seem like a long time to some people, but for me, it feels like tomorrow. I don’t want them to ever find me. I want to finally feel safe for once in my life. But I need help because I’m struggling to do this by myself.

Below my story I’m going to comment links to a news article that stated what happened to me and what charges they got. I will also post the pictures of their mugshots too. Please help me in anyway you can. I can’t stress enough how bad I want to move away from here so I can be secure and not have to worry about them again.

Thank you for reading my incredibly long story. I hope that this story helps other women know that if you went through something similar to this, then you are not alone. You are not a victim, you’re a survivor.

https://www.wbrc.com/2019/08/26/shelby-co-couple-charged-with-two-dozen-sex-crimes-against-family-member/?outputType=amp

https://www.shelbycountyreporter.com/2019/08/26/pelham-couple-arrested-for-numerous-sex-charges-involving-young-victim/