Over 20.83% of the population suffer some forum of sexual abuse before the age of 18 years old. They come from all walks of life, all backgrounds, and happens to both females and males, rich and poor, white, black, or pink. 

 Many victims of childhood sexual abuse will have been abused by someone in the family or a close family friend, and the abuser can be either male or female, rich or poor, teacher, step dad, mother, babysitter, vicar, brother or anyone. Some will have been abused by a stranger, and although that is what becomes reported in the news far more often, abuse happens far more often by someone known to the child that they should have been able to trust to protect them

If you have been abused, please know that you are not alone, and it is possible to overcome the devastating effects that abuse can have on people for many years to come if left un-dealt with.

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