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Frightening Facts about Child Sexual Abuse
Crimes against children represent the most frequent of all types of crime.
Most sexual abuse occurs in the home.
Many molesters constitute an ongoing menace to children and
will continue to molest their own children, their grandchildren,
and any other children to whom they may have access.
Memories of abuse are often repressed.
In dysfunctional families, the sense of self that the child
develops often
is not the actual self but rather a false-self.
Lies inculcated in youth become adult opinions and convictions.
The life-saving function of repression in childhood is
transformed
in adulthood into a life-destroying force.
Taking [psychiatric] drugs does interfere wiht the healing
process.
If you are too heavily medicated, you may become unable
to participate in your recovery.
Incest is the most devastating betrayal a child can endure.
It is perhaps the cruelest, most baffling of human experiences.
It is a violation of the most basic trust between child and parent or caretaker.
These children have nowhere to run, no one to run to.
The child is caught as a hostage by a powerful terrorist.
Many incest aggressors are alcoholics.
Alcohol turns up the thermostat on whatever family dysfunction
that already exists.
We look like others from the outside, but much that is part
of our memories,
our lives, is unmentionable in ordinary conversation.
If you do not face the past, understand it and resolve it,
it will haunt you for the rest of your life.
An English priest amassed so many pedophile fantasies that
he built a series of computers to store them in;
by the time he was arrested he had accumulated a data-base fifteen times
the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
The digital videocamera no sooner appeared on the market
than men were using it to send live footage of themselves
into cyperspace to impress the children whom they were
already importuning by email.
The following works were consulted in compiling this list:
Compiled by April A. Severin
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