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Studies have shown a clear correlation between childhood sexual assault (CSA) and negative sexual experiences later in life. Of relevance to the criminal justice system, these later forms of sexual victimization include sexual assault and sex work. The relationship between CSA and adverse sexual development is a correlation between two things, not a direct pathway from cause to effect. While survivors of sexual assault are at a higher risk of experiencing these later forms of victimization, this correlation represents a highly complex process involving a wide range of mediating factors and the intersections between them. Any experience of sexual assault is highly traumatic. Survivors of CSA, however, represent a unique population, because their trauma occurs near the start of the human developmental process and therefore alters all development thereafter.

To this day I still have nightmares about this, I wake up screaming, crying, and shaking but I remember I’m safe and it's just part of the past. You would think that I would be scared of snow plows but I'm not, I've been in them since with my Papa as he drives them. This has scarred me for life as I thought I was going to lose

Growing in a tiny family, I was raised with my brother who is 6 years older than me. My father was always away and my mother was very protective. My mother used to not let me play with kids outside thinking I would get hurt and if sneak out sometimes my brother would follow me and hit me and tell me to go back home. I was never allowed to talk to him. I was always shut down whenever I have a question to ask either him or my mom. When I grew up I started ignoring to ask questions. When I started going to school my teachers used to yell at me and say why I am so quiet and not answering any questions. And in my country hitting students in hands and legs is considered

attacker has done what they did to you, go and tell a parent soon as possible because you don’t

Today, sexual abuse or sexual harassment is very common around the world. There have been so many videos on social media regarding sexual harassment happening in public but we barely get to see anyone who is trying to prevent it from happening. But when it comes to their own child, parents tend to be assistive and give protection to them. Throughout the memoir, we can see many abusive events that happen to Jeannette and one of her first memory was of a sexual abuse. “I felt Stanley's hand creeping onto my thigh...so I knocked his hand away without saying anything. A few minutes later, the hand came creeping back. I looked down and saw that Uncle Stanley's pants were unzipped and he was playing with himself” (Walls 184). In this type of situation, parents would most likely

I remember having to sit down with my mother and father at the age of six and they asked me “Where did he touch you?”. Do you know how hard that is? Do you know how hard it is to explain to your parents how you were sexually abused by a family member? I was so embarrassed and ashamed. I remember them telling me that it was not my fault but I could not help but believe that it was all my fault. Could I have stopped this? Surely I could have told somebody what was happening but why didn't I? I think I was scared. I did not know what my parents would think of me if I told them. I did not want anyone in my family finding out, and I knew if I told my parents, everybody would find out. Everybody did find out but nobody talked about it. It was just something that was known. When I was younger, I thought maybe nobody knew but as I grew up and wasn’t allowed alone with this family member, I just assumed everybody knew. I do not know whether I am mad or glad that this is not talked about within my family. I almost feel like the whole situation was swept under the rug because maybe my parents did not want to believe how serious the abuse actually was. I guess nobody will understand how bad it was besides me. It is still really hard to see this person and family get togethers. It makes me dread the holidays when we all get

One particular night I was in my room on my laptop, and Steve abruptly burst through the front door. I could hear my siblings scream, “Stop,” as I walked to the door to see what was going on in the room. Steve and my mom were face to face and appeared to be engaged in a verbal altercation. I ran towards them to step in between the conflict, but it was too late. He had struck my mother and charged at me. He grabbed me by my white tank top shirt, and he dragged me into the kitchen. He picked me up several times and body slammed me on the kitchen floor. I tried to kick him off of me, but my adolescent legs were no match for this 250 pound man. My mother and siblings began to strike him with pots and pans and begged him to get off of me. I manage

I was raised by a single mother in Massachusetts in the 1980s. In 1983, when I was five years old, I was “kidnapped” by the teenage nephew of our neighbors and held in their root cellar for roughly 12 hours. I write “kidnapped” because even though what happened to me was not technically a kidnapping – I wasn’t held for ransom or for more than twenty-four hours, it was the only word that I had at my disposal to describe my experience. Because I was five and no one had explained to me what sexual assault, molestation or rape was. In America it is estimated that nearly 1 in 5 women has experienced or will experience a rape in her lifetime (Black, et al. 2011). I am just one of the estimated 42 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse

When did you decide to tell someone about the abuse or did anyone find out before you opened up about it?

I came home crying to my mother. I was red eyed and puffy faced. I would tell

According to psychologists around the world, many who are sexually assaulted keep quiet in fear of rejection and embarrassment . In the book, "Speak", the main character Melinda Sordin, was sexually assaulted the summer of her ninth grade year. Throughout the novel, she chooses to keep quiet and act like everything is normal, when in reality her world is flipped upside down. However, Melinda should have spoken out. It is much better to bring attention to a subject of importance, than to let it rest in the shadow of exile. The truth may not only be of importance to you, but anybody around the problem.

While reading your thread, it made me think of one of the stories that was told in Carnes’s book “Out of the Shadows”. The story was about a guy who sexually abused his daughters. When the guy went to therapy, it was told that his family had a history of sexual addiction. The abuse in the family “transcended four generations” (Carnes, 2001, p. 59). Maybe that is what happened with you and your child’s attackers. Maybe

The first incident where the sexual abuse started was 9 months prior to us moving to Santa Rosa. The family friend, who I will address as Hector in this paper, visited us in Richmond, CA where we lived. Shortly after the arrival of Hector, he greeted my parents then greeted me. He gave me a long distasteful hug in which he groped me and tried to kiss me. This fondling made me feel uncomfortable but

I. Attention getter: Do you know a friend or family member who has been sexually abused? Or maybe you have experienced sexual abuse yourself? Are you aware of the psychological and developmental effects it can have on you or someone you may know? Chances are, you don’t—while sexual abuse is common, may people do not speak up, and the problem goes unrecognized.

Child sexual abuse has been reported up to 80,000 times a year, but the number of unreported instances is far greater, because the children are afraid to tell anyone what has happened (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry). Childhood sexual abuse is a traumatic experience affecting the lives of not only the victim, but those close to the victim as well. Many think there is only one person truly traumatized, but in fact, everyone involved is affected. The victim has to deal with their experience the rest of their lives. They may be more at risk for other mental issues as well, including depression. The family involved has to deal with its pain, often causing hardship and discord within the family. This is especially true