It takes a long time to start the healing process. I will never heal. There are pieces from me that can never be put back together. ~ Virginia Roberts Giuffre, victim of Jeffrey Epstein from age 16 I understand that a victim of sexual abuse would feel this way. Even after years of traditional […]
I was talking to a friend the other day about the impact of sexual abuse on the lives of young girls. And, in particular, those who got caught up in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking schemes. And about the fact that sexual exploitation went virtually unmentioned for decades until social media gave birth to the #MeToo movement. […]
We’ve been reading a lot recently about high profile cases of hidden sexual violence against boys and girls in professional hockey, football, swimming and judo. Now the US government has just this week released the results of an in-depth phone survey of sexual violence. The report confirms that rape and sexual violence are far more common than previously […]