This past week was composed all around the impending publication of a newspaper article about incest and childhood sexual abuse. I had a two hour interview with a reporter. I cleared it with friends and professionals, so my story could be verified and today, out of nowhere, the reporter kills the article for fear "lives could be ruined"...aka, libel, slander or my immediate dysfunctional, no caring biological family may be adversely effected.
Really? Obviously this "reporter", and I use the term loosely as she has never studied journalism but got a degree in English....had no idea how many lives are being ruined in the generational and societal silence of child sexual abuse.
Oh, don't use the word "incest" as people automatically recoil at the mere mention of something so hideous as to be unbelievable and rampant.
In my community of 6,000 ....over 700 adult women and 400 adult men, (I thoroughly researched the numbers) are walking around carrying the scourge and scars of childhood sexual abuse...too ashamed to tell anyone and feeling guilty for what an adult did to an innocent, trusting child. Not to mention the children who are currently being sexually abused with nowhere to turn.
Yup, let's just shut out mouths, close our eyes and turn away. If we actually tried to help the problem, we just might have to face our own inner truths.
Denial is a darkdark place, in the back of the mind, and off to the left. Heaven forbid we acknowledge our past, what happened to us r what we saw and heard.
Godhelpus, that by denying the problem, it will cease to exist and go away.
Yeah, you run to your corner, bitch. You go and hide.
My head is Out Of The Sand!
My eyes are open.
My head and conscious is clear.
I will speak out. I will Not remain quiet and allow this silent epidemic to continue to infect and sicken thousands.
Really? She was clueless. Good intentions are not always good things. Know what the hell you are doing in your job, or leave.
Obviously, my piddley local paper is not my platform....but I know one s out there....searching, searching....
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