One Man’s Journey: Child Sexual Abuse Aftermath
On May - 1 - 2012
The trauma of childhood sexual abuse doesn’t stop after the act itself. The effects of sexual abuse can linger for years, debilitating victims throughout their lives and well into adulthood, according to experts. The anti-sexual violence organization RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) and the Let Go…Let Peace Come In Foundation are two organizations that each year work with survivors of sexual abuse and sexual assault in the US. Many sexual abuse survivors will spend their lives one way or another coping with the repercussions of the sexual violations inflicted upon them as children. READ MORE HERE
By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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dawn Says:
This is a brief poem with regard to my own experience as a child abuse victim…There once was a little girl..
She was only 3…
She lived in fear in her own home…
Abused and imprisoned by her own family…
At the hands of her mom and dad…
She was told by her sibling…mommy cried when you came…
To this day the first born laughs and tells how they threw grass and dirt in her baby bed…
Mommy wanted a boy and when you came she was upset and sad…to the little sister…
That was what the oldest said..
She cried alone often wondering…why mommy didn’t love her in return…
Seems her mommy was advised by her mother/her daddy was a good provider..
That should be your first concern…
Mommy had caught daddy doing things to her which were bad…
The 3 year old was punished and blamed..
by grandma,
mom and dad..
Mommy often beat her with daddy’s belt bare-bottomed
on the freezer in the garage…
It made her so sad…
She was threatened by the 3 to keep the dirty secret…
Or awful things would occur…
Daddy continued for years……
Abused and forever scarred…
It was so hard to endure…
To the town-folk…this family seemed perfect..and pure.
She was often punished and sent to bed with no dinner….
She got the blame for all that went wrong…
Even though , grandma, sissy and daddy were the sinners…
Around age 12 she remembered daddy tickling her in front of mommy..
On the floor..
She gave him the benefit of the doubt when his hand went where she
knew he had no right..
After he did it the second time….she became angry..fought..and got up
and sat by her mom..and firmly stated her hate of tickling ..and
nobody better ever do it again…
His abuse she would put an end to….forever she’d defend herself..
and put up one hell of a fight..
There is so much more to that girl’s story…
Ironically she honored them all…
In the end had she not been there for them..
They’d have all fallen..
Their secret shes kept to herself..memories flooded her before her mother passed away…
The few members of her family left her to deal alone..
She had nowhere to turn…
In the end she’d be blamed for the mess she was left to clean up…
Even though she was ill and had no business doing it all..
They’d finally break her soul after all the good she’d done..
Harassment and heartache is what she’d recieve for her honor in return….
Posted on May 4th, 2012 at 5:49 am