Child Sexual Abuse Documentary

The Chicago Reporter's Jeff Kelly Lowenstein takes a deep look at the impact of child sexual abuse for three women who share their stories of abuse and their efforts to cope and heal from it. Read more at http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/Cover_Stories/d/Safe_at_home%3F

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News & Politics

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• sex abuse
• child sex abuse
• Chicago
• Jeff Kelly Lowenstein
• child welfare
• teen
• molestation
• fondling

[JeffKLO3]

Thanks for your comments. Just to be clear, I am a journalist, not a therapist. I agree that the stories of male abuse survivors are important. These women were the people we met during the project who were willing to share their stories. I am grateful to them for it.

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein

[rainslave]

There are much better therapists out there this one is "s--t!!", this is just making a mockumentary! A true therapist wouldn't have a patient "put it OUT there!!". BAD, BAD therapist!!!

[LanceHertford]

It kind of annoys me that almost all research and almost all documentaries on sexual abuse have only female victims. I believe the occurence of those of us who are male being victims is FAR higher than is acknowledged, or investigated. It's a feminist paradigm that says "all victims are female; all perpetrators are male". As a male victim whose sexual abuse included more than one female perpetrator, to be told I'm a latent abuser and my perpetrators don't exist fucking pisses me off.

[iEatBoneDust]

@AWOLFNAMEMARTI Ya damn right. It's not my fault someone kidnapped me, put a gun to my head and raped me when I was a runaway. It's not my fault that 2 people tried to rape me and my friend while hitchhiking. No matter what "situation" I "put myself in", IT'S THEIR CHOICE TO RAPE!!!!!

[CourtneyNicole97]

@xXKewl25Xx  its not fun, Stay Strong <3

[xXKewl25Xx]

@CourtneyNicole97 Me aswell.

[CourtneyNicole97]

i am a victim

[SydtheKiddy]

so what whats going on

[mscharmed87]

I hear myself over n over n I still cat believe tht thz actually happened 2me. I cnt believe tht I am actually speaking 2a camera or 2a recorder, and just talking about wht happend 2me, whn I saw thz the 1st time I was n still am very surprised, I just c things n say, wow I have been thru so much, n have accoplished so much, tht there should b nothing holding me down, n I just want 2let you know tht u are nt alone, there is help out there, u just gt to look for it.. n b willing 2get helped.

[AWOLFNAMEMARTI]

they need to STOP blaming themselves, WOLF don't care if one of them was standing on a street corner naked, it is NOT their fault if someone sexually abuses them. FIGHT SURVIVOIRS, STOP letting the EVIL lead you around thinking your dirty or worthless, when in REALITY your PRICELESS, because you lived through it, & your a VOICE for those who did not. and a WARRIOR in waiting to HELP children everywhere. USE your inner strength people, COME TOGETHER like the WORLD has never seen.