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According to the National Child Abuse Coalition.org, below are two impacts of child abuse. I should know. I experienced them.
I know that I initially made very good grades in schools … and, then … I wasn’t. I remember my elementary school so much more vividly than any other grade-level. I remember the smells in the class rooms of chalk, crayons, and books. I remember sitting with schoolmates in the cafeteria, making faces … swapping foods …and, the chatter. I remember running in the playground, playing Red Rover …sharing secrets with friends … and, the laughter. I don’t remember, however … the exact date … it stopped. I don’t remember the date I started making average grades (if that good.) I don’t remember when the school became less a place of learning, games, fun and friendships, and more of a place of solace and retreat. I don’t remember when I stopped wanting to share … “secrets” with my friends. I can’t remember when I felt more in control, when alone. I can't remember when I started feeling inadequate or taking offense at anything someone said … and, striking back at them … often, much to their surprise. I can’t remember the date I placed an invisible shield around me. I do remember … it wasn’t long after … the sexual abuse started. Ref: https://nationalchildabusecoalition.org Debbie Barth:8/01/2018 at 3:53 pm ET © All rights reserved AuthorDebbie Barth is the author of The Promise Book: Tell Someone. Her goal is to aid parents who understand the necessity of talking to their children about child predators in way that doesn’t confuse or scare them.
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Occasionally … I will present statistical information concerning child predators. I actually prefer to blog actual events and/or my thoughts. I prefer this rather than statistics because I think we, oftentimes, become bogged down with the numbers and become desensitized from the actual effects of child sexual abuse. The victims are more than just numbers. With that said, I have found a website that has some vital information and statistics that I feel is important to share. The National Center for Victims of Crimes is a website of which I will be drawing some of my future information. I hope that my followers, many of whom are victims, will visit this website … draw from the information given …and, by all means … become involved, should you choose. Below are a few statistics that may surprise you:
The above statistics have been obtained from the National Center for Victims of Crimes. I am not associated with them in any way. I am only a “reader” and hopefully … you will be, as well. http://victimsofcrime.org/media/reporting-on-child-sexual-abuse/statistics-on-perpetrators-of-csa Debbie Barth: 8/07/2018 at 5:25 pm ET © All rights reserved AuthorDebbie Barth is the author of The Promise Book: Tell Someone. Her goal is to aid parents who understand the necessity of talking to their children about child predators in way that doesn’t confuse or scare them. Consider the recent Hollywood incidences … Weinstein, Cosby, the Allison Mack sex-trafficking/sex labor scandal … and, the recent number of illegals who have been detained for crossing the border with children not their own, with the intentions of selling them. Unfortunately, I believe people are getting “use” to these … revelations. But, people may still be surprised if they knew who were the most trafficked children in America. According to the FBI and the Washington Examiner … the vast majority of the children trafficked in the U.S. are not Mexican or Central American, but are American. The article I am referencing was written 3 years ago. Of course, the stats for 2018 will not be known until, 2019 … but what do you want to bet … it’s gotten worse?! According to Jenny Gaines, who worked at Breaking Free, (at the time of this article) a Minnesota-based advocacy group that helps former sex workers, girls are manipulated and taken advantage of as early as age 12 … before being trafficked. According to then Assistant Director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, Joseph Campbell … potentially hundreds of thousands of children are being sexually abused in pedophile rings across the U.S. In large states where homelessness has increased … so has the number of children molested, and trafficked … because they are so vulnerable to their environment. According to Statista.com, between 2008 and 2016 the number of human trafficking victims identified … worldwide … more than doubled from 30,961 to 66,520. But, the number of small children who are being molested, groomed, and trafficked are much higher than what “stats” tell us. We are not hearing from so many children who are being molested by a family member … a friend of the family … someone from their school … or someone from their church. Child predators know how to manipulate children into silence. And, way too often people “suspect” something is wrong … but … say nothing. And … this … is the power that arms the child predators. That power of silence. Even if it wasn’t true that pedophilia, molestation, and sex-trafficking were on the rise (and, they are) … the fact that it happens at all can be devastating to our children. I urge parents to talk to their children at a very early age. I urge people who suspect child abuse (of any kind) to speak up. This is how we stop child predators … we speak up for our children … and, we teach our children to speak up for themselves … knowing … someone … will be there to listen … and, to support them. Ref: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fbi-epidemic-levels-of-pedophilia-child-sex-trafficking http://www.humantraffickingsearch.org/top-3-states-for-human-trafficking http://www.statista.com/topics/4238/human-trafficking Debbie Barth:8/01/2018 at 5:10 pm ET © All rights reserved AuthorDebbie Barth is the author of The Promise Book: Tell Someone. Her goal is to aid parents who understand the necessity of talking to their children about child predators in way that doesn’t confuse or scare them. |
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