Key points

Child sexual abuse has impacts that are long-lasting and pervasive.

Children often cope with the bewildering and overwhelming nature of sexual abuse by blaming themselves.

Being heard and understood by caring others enables victims of child sexual abuse to heal.

Sexual abuse experienced in childhood is not always consciously remembered by the child, but like uranium, it lives forever. It is a subject of great interest, yet as we see in the Menendez and Epstein cases, one that is extremely difficult to talk about. The searing realities of its victims’ experiences are pushed off center stage, referred to in general, but rarely centered in the public or legal discourse.

Sexual Abuse Affects Every Part of a Child

Every kind of abuse in childhood is damaging and confounding

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