48Hours Investigates - Searching For Angela Shelton

by Lady Lee 12 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse

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  Lady Lee

  I have sent a couple of my old threads bttt

  Why don't victims tell about their abuse http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/45869/1.ashx

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  Why do we tell our stories? http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/32755/1.ashx

  Grace they might answer your concerns

  A few days ago I was told by someone (not Grace cuz I know she would never do that) to stop talking about abuse. This is something I will never do. Silence is the enemy of the victims and survivors. Silence is the friend of abusers and their defenders. My mother's silence allowed far too many people to be abused repeatedly. She was a co-conspirator. By speaking out as did Angela I make sure that no other child will be abused because of my silence.
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  abbagail

  DITTO DITTO DITTO to what Lee, sKally, sphere said!
  
  I don't see how anyone can STOP talking about it once it's out of the bag. And I don't care how 'uncomfortable' it makes anybody, anywhere, at any time (I have been told in the past not to talk about such things, also). Like the rest of you, I was 'silenced' then as well, and I will not be silenced again. I was the 'nutty one' in the family BEFORE I was able to 'put the pieces togther' and 'connect the dots' (via the book INCEST AND ITS AFTEREFFECTS IN WOMEN, which I read in early 1992), so if anyone thinks I am 'nutty' for talking about it (which they/the family probabaly do, they just don't say it out loud as they'd all just as soon let bygones be bygones), that's their problem ;-) because there's no way to 'sit on it' or 'stuff it' once you KNOW/UNDERSTAND/REALIZE what all the 'crazies' were all about/stemmed from, that endless dark 'hole' in your chest all the years when younger when life should have been a joyous adventure. Instead we (I) was emotioinally crippled, in such agony and yet didn't really have a clue as to why (even though I remembered the abuse @ age 11) it never occurred to me, and no one ever suggested that was the 'connection' to my torment until I was 40 years old! What a CRIME! to go that long in life suffering! THIS IS THE REASON THE SILENCE MUST BE STOPPED! (I had seen shrinks, been in hospitals, seen counselors yet not a one ever asked, "Were you ever sexually abused?" until I was late 1991 when I was 39! OMG! B-I-N-G-O! = Another reason AWARENESS is so important!
  
  I had seen the Angela segment on Oprah and I could so relate when she went nuts in the trailer screaming at the top of her lungs. It was eerily familiar. I have to admit the night it was on 48 Hours, I just wasn't up to watching it again because I didn't want to 'feel' the pain of seeing her go nutzo in the trailer. As for her pig-of-a-father, what a slimeball-coward like most of them are... (Ugh, it still creeps me out to think of them).
  
  OK, enough of my rumble from the jungle. ;-)
  GRITS
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  Panda

  I saw this too. And while the whole idea was dealing with a name, we instead get a look at what's happened to young women and children in our society. More an more of this needs to come out. The Prevalence of abuse which information now comes in waves will eventually cause even the most passive to protect children.Molestors are Fucking Cowards.