“These were children. Gerry was their priest. Who could disagree that these children were not justified in trusting their priest? Nobody!” — Mark M. Bello Copy Share Image
“Children are naive, they don’t possess enough skills to be able to recognize the balance between the truth and a lie.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
“Intimidated, old traumas triggered, and fearing for my safety, I did what I felt I needed to do.” — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Being survivors signifies that we have recognized that we have been through a lot that should never have taken place and we… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited… — Daniel Mackler Copy Share Image
“So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“The best way to teach a child abuser to stop abusing is not counseling. It is not therapy. It is a mouth… — Ryan Sayles Copy Share Image
“Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative… — Ruth A. Lanius Copy Share Image
“Even if I had friends or people around me it did not matter anymore, I always felt isolated and unique from all… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“When I was 14-15 There was nothing to my life but dancing and sex I'd go to night clubs and dance Then… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“Being in the depths of the ocean was like being in the womb, suspended in a liquid environment, listening to my own… — Tom North Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Mum was pregnant, then there was Sharron. [...] I wanted to keep him away from her - but for the wrong reasons.… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Janna knew - Rikki knew — and I knew, too — that becoming Dr Cameron West wouldn't make me feel a damn… — Cameron West Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and… — Laurie Matthew Copy Share Image
“Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate… — Chrystine Oksana Copy Share Image
“These kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“When I deny the seriousness of my abuse I agree with my abuser and those who wouldn't acknowledge it. When I am… — Patty Hite Copy Share Image
I went through child abuse, and I also went through abuse with dating a couple of boyfriends in high school. I also… — Cheryl Burke Copy Share Image
“If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may… — Rebecca Manley Pippert Copy Share Image
“Mia bottled all this up inside of her and just couldn’t manage it any longer. Mia would feel like it was entirely… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“I experience what it is to exist in perpetual fear, afraid, totally controlled, manipulated, ashamed at all times and many more things… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.” — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“The frailty of those dark hours during the period of abuse persuades the child to think that they are incapable of causing… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have… — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse,… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater. We could breathe and talk to one another. We rowed past schools… — J. Dylan Yates Copy Share Image
“If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will… — O'Brien Edna Copy Share Image
“If a child grows up in an environment infested with predators, he or she would have a hard time building healthy relationships… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If a child is abused by a family member, most likely they blame themselves for the integral act of abuse than those… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“When I felt as though I had reached land, it was like I was on a deserted sandy beach, feeling isolated and… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“The more I focus my time and energy on withstanding a real life, I am able to overcome and come out victorious.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
![“Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest,” quote by Charlie Daniels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/charlie-daniels-13220_abusers_just-take-them-rascals-rapists-killers-c_285867.png)
![“Mum was pregnant, then there was Sharron. [...] I wanted to keep him away from her - but for the wrong reasons. In my head he was mine, he was my special person but, of course, as I was getting older, his interest in me was waning anyway. I don't know whether it was because he had lost interest in…” quote by Laurie Matthew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca2/laurie-matthew-31209_abused_mum-was-pregnant-then-there-was-sharron_3212563.jpg)
![“In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to: break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own...no identity...then they... rebuild the person & shape their will in order to...try and make…” quote by Laurie Matthew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f99/laurie-matthew-31209_abuse-sexual-abuse_in-a-nutshell-the-process-they-abusers-i_1534823.jpg)
