Child Sexual Assault

Child sexual assault is usually a repeated experience where a child and their family is groomed by a predator who wishes to access the child for their own gratification. This type of repeated prolonged abuse typically leads to a condition of Complex Post Traumatic Stress DIsorder (link to page on this) and requires appropriate psychological treatment.

Here are some links to first hand accounts of the experience of Child Sexual Assault.

This is Actually Happening podcast What if you couldn’t tell anyone. This is a story of a young black girl born to a drug-addicted mother is adopted by white, middle-class parents, only to face more sinister taboos as she becomes a stranger within her own family.

This is Actually Happening podcast   What if you were forced to keep the nanny’s secret?  This is the story of an 11yo boy groomed and CSA by a babysitter.

This story describes how a 52-year-old survivor of childhood sexual abuse was finally able to talk about being abused by her mother and raped by her father on a regular basis from age four to 25 and receive therapy to assist her to recover from the effects..

From This is Actually Happening podcast, this story describes how a priest struggles to transform his life after facing the consequences of sexually abusing children in his role as a priest.