Abuse - EVEN in Your Neighborhood

There was an older lady that thanked me for sharing my painful story with them at a regional Kiwanis meeting I did a presentation for this evening.  She recently became aware of the prevalence of child abuse.  I will never forget what she told me so I’m passing this along...

She said that there was a group that came to speak about child abuse at another function she was at. The speaker had challenged all of them to step outside their house and to stand in the middle of their street – turn a circle and look as far as her eye could see down her own street in either direction – statistically, at least 2 children were being abused in her neighborhood. She did in fact do what the speaker had suggested, but still could not believe that a child on “her” street in her “good” neighborhood would be suffering abuse. She told her husband that she just couldn’t believe this to be true. A few weeks later, she saw police cars at a house diagonal from her’s. A boy had been sexually abused for years by his father. She felt great guilt and pain for this little boy. It wasn’t until that moment that it hit so “close to home” she believed. 

Friends, this is real and there is STILL a problem. Be aware… If you suspect child abuse, please report it to your local authorities.