Child sexual abuse | Child sexual abuse
May.24.2013
From award winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers and the bestselling author of THE PICKAXE KILLERS and THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS, comes a powerful new historical true crime short, MURDER AT THE PENCIL FACTORY: The Killing of Mary Phagan 100 Years Later.
On the afternoon of April 26, 1913,...
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Apr.06.2013
I have been working in the field of child sexual abuse and incest for several years now. Over the course of time, I’ve met many others who are also working in this field. I would like this blog to be a THANK YOU to all of you who have been so diligently helping to end this scourge. I...
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Mar.09.2013
Periodically I receive an email from someone who wants to tell me their story and that’s okay. That’s what I’m here for. But their particular story might be extremely violent or abusive and might be difficult to read. If a story I read in the online news media follows, that is also virulent...
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Feb.15.2013
John Bradshaw once said, “If your family has any secrets you can bet they are about sex.” In looking back through my years of recovery from incest I see how accurate he was. Just finding out that I was an incest victim, even though my father had told me twice, was a shock in itself. My best friend...
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Dec.29.2012
My husband and I just returned from a week’s vacation in the LA area to spend the holidays with our four children. It was a fun filled, exciting, and full of love kind of week. We spent a couple days with each of the four families (my husband, Tom hates this part: carrying luggage into the...
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Dec.07.2012
Every few days I check out the search topics on the Home page of my website, www.thelamplighters.org, as well as my Google Analytics Summary to find out what most of them are in reference to. The biggest percentage of the time it is “incest sex”. That saddens me, not just because that was my issue...
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Sep.23.2012
Emmett Fox, one of the most influential New Thought writers of the 20th century once said,
“If you can raise your consciousness about the limitations of the physical plane in connection with the matter that troubles you then the conditions on that plane will change, and in some utterly unforeseen...
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Aug.12.2012
Having survived three domestic violence relationships, I’ve discovered there is a formula that describes most. Untreated child abuse + codependent behavior = a domestic violence situation waiting to happen. Once you move past the formula a complex history lurks. There are other formulas but...
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Jul.28.2012
The Lamplighter Movement has a newly formed chapter in Pakistan. Our facilitator sends me links to videos and news articles on child sexual abuse in his country. He said to imagine child sexual abuse as bad as you can imagine it. Then multiply by four and you still won’t get an accurate picture....
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Jul.21.2012
Today was our local Lamplighter Meeting. We hold it at the Public Library once a month from 10:00 am to Noon. I’ve been doing this for five years. When I first started out I had an interview with the local radio station regarding the meetings, an interview in the local paper, I mailed announcements...
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