There are many types of abuse:
-Child
-Emotional (e.g. called negative "words)
-Domestic, spousal, marriage
(e.g. in marriage or any type of relationships)
-Physical (e.g. beaten)
-Sexual
-Spiritual (e.g. offended/hurt by the church)
-Verbal
Whatever it is, call out to Jesus to have Him come to heal you-it's a timely process!
Other versus in the Bible to meditate on:
Genesis 16:9
Exodus: 20:4-5
Isaiah 50:4-6
Isaiah 55=>
"9 Confuse the wicked, O Lord, confound their speech,
for I see violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they prowl about on its walls;
malice and abuse are within it. "
11 Destructive forces are at work in the city;
threats and lies never leave its streets.
12 If an enemy were insulting me, I could endure it; if a foe were raising himself against me, I could hide from him. 13 But it is you, a man like myself, my companion, my close friend, 14 with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship as we walked with the throng at the house of God.
15 Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the grave, [2] for evil finds lodging among them.
16 But I call to God, and the LORD saves me. 17 Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice. 18 He ransoms me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me. 19 God, who is enthroned forever, will hear them and afflict them- Selah men who never change their ways and have no fear of God.
20 My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant. 21 His speech is smooth as butter, yet war is in his heart; his words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords.
22 Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall. 23 But you, O God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful men will not live out half their days.
But as for me, I trust in you.
I grew-up in a loving family. Like all families, there are hard-times and problems. My parents had their disagreements, which fighting is normal-verbally! However, physically-that isn't acceptable! I didn't know what I could do our supposed to do when my dad would lose his temper and hit my mom. He didn't beat her up like you see in the movies, but enough to leave bruises on my mom's shoulders or chest. It wasn't a pretty sight to watch or hear growing-up a little kids. As I write this now (30 years old), I look back and wish my parents' knew God-personal relationship! I guess the circumstances growing-up led me to Him, which I want to help others like me when I was kid find Him.
I've learned about the power of forgivenss, which I pray that my dad will understand what he did was wrong and that he gets help from anger. More importantly that he comes to know God, which all the above will follow. I somewhat inherited that anger inside of me and caught myself doing what my dad did growing-up. I've gotten better to this day and continue pray to do so with His help!
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Afghan women suffer of domestic violence
"..Sometimes Afghan men beating their wife for nothing just they like it to show their power and anger in his family member. When they feel to beat their wife they do it immediately. Many parents marry their daughters off to wealthy men aged 60 and 70. A shocking story of child bride at the age of four in Kandahar is one example of thousands. Many parents sell their daughters like materials, they are not care where does she goes and what will happened on her. About 57% of Afghan girls are married before the legal marriage age of 16; about 60-80% of marriages are forced.
Hundreds of women are jailed, last year a local reporter said; the prisoners of women prison, are always rape. A lady whispered me that last night five soldier with Kalashnikov forcedly took me out of prison and raped in their cabin. He said.
A UNIFEM research project suggests that 80 percent of the violence is committed by a family member - husband, father, brother, son.
Read more at www.afghanlord.org or Farsi at www.kabuli.org"
I've learned that many of my friends that were sexually abused ended up getting homosexual thoughts or even actions.
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The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse,
Featuring "Honoring the Truth: A Response to the Backlash"
The Courage to Heal Workbook: For Women and Men Survivors of Child
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Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
NOTE: These are just some of many books I found in www.bn.com through Search: Sexual Abuse
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"(CNN) -- The House of Representatives voted Friday to impeach a federal judge convicted of obstruction of justice while in office.
U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent of Texas pleaded guilty in February, admitting he lied to investigators about nonconsensual sexual contact with two employees in his courthouse. As part of a plea agreement, other counts alleging sexual misconduct were dropped.
Kent was the first federal judge to be charged with sexual crimes while in office.
He has submitted his resignation, but made it effective June 1, 2010, meaning he would be paid for a year while in prison.....
" Child sexual abuse is a significant public health problem in the United States and across the world. In the United States one out of three females and one out of five males have been victims of sexual abuse before the age of 18 years. Sexual abuse occurs across all ethnic/racial, socioeconomic, and religious groups. Unfortunately, sexual abuse is considered a relatively common experience in the lives of children. "
"Offenders are more likely to be relatives or acquaintances of their victim than strangers.[156]A 2006-2007 Idaho study of 430 cases found that 82% of juvenile sex offenders were known to the victims (acquaintances 46% or relatives 36%).[157] [5]The percentage of incidents of sexual abuse by female perpetrators that come to the attention of the legal system is usually reported to be between 1% and 4%.[158] Studies of sexual misconduct in US schools female sex offenders have showed mixed results with rates between 4% to 43% of female offenders.[100] In U.S. schools, educators who offend range in age from "21 to 75 years old, with an average age of 28" with teachers, coaches, substitute teachers, bus drivers and teacher's aids (in that order) totaling 69% of the offenders.[159]..."
"The film opens with three boys, Sean Devine, Jimmy Markum, and Dave Boyle, playing hockey in the street. While playing, the boys find a section of sidewalk cement that is still drying. Jimmy impulsively writes his name in the cement and Sean follows. Dave begins to write his name in the cement, however, a car pulls up and a man who appears to be a plainclothes police officer gets out, scolds the three boys, and tells Dave to get in the car. As the car moves away, Dave looks out the back window to see Jimmy and Sean staring back at him. Hearing that Dave was taken away by a police officer, the parents of Jimmy and Sean agree that something is wrong and begin to look for him. The film then cuts to Dave in the basement of the two pedophiles who took him and then to Dave running away from the house through a forest."
Mystic.River.(2003)_TRAILER
"movie trailer"
Wikipedia-Sleepers (film)
"A testimony of hope for the hopeless."
Go Back & Get Your Baby!
"THIS IS A MUST SEE TESTIMONY! A Personal Testimony of Prophetess Sharon D. Walker; A life of child molestation and incest that lead to a life of healing, forgiveness, and victory in Jesus Christ..."
Public Policy
"The goal of this approach is to enable the offenders to understand their behavior, take responsibility for the behavior, increase motivation to change their harmful behavior and learn the skills necessary to control their deviancy. With training in relapse prevention techniques, offenders learn to identify the chain of thoughts and behaviors that, if uninterrupted, could culminate in the commission of a sex offense. In addition to learning to identify the chain, the offender masters alternative non-harmful techniques to intervene and stop the progression of behaviors"
"Restoration Project is designed to address the most difficult challenges of treatment. This program has evolved and matured over the years to manage the complex treatment goals and objectives of those needing services. Offenders receive healing within a framework that holds them accountable, responsible and visible in their program and in the community. Treatment is fair, just and firm. The offenders are court-ordered into treatment and we form a collaborative working arrangement with Probation Services, Child Protection, Social Services, Guardian Ad Litem Services and others."
2 Peter 2:10-22-Perverting truth
Book References:
Ellen Bass,Preface by Laura Davis / Paperback / HarperTrade / January 1994
Laura Davis / Paperback / HarperTrade / January 1990
Laura Davis,Designed by Laura Hough / Paperback / HarperTrade / January 1991
Wendy Maltz,Carol Arian (Illustrator) / Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers, Incorporated / January 1991
Rape
*see GoodnewsEverybody.com Issues: Sex
"At 16-years-old Kelly Putty was kidnapped and raped. But after she became a Christian, she was able to forgive her attackers and energetically help others to find their own healing in Christ. See her testimony of forgiveness. The Christian Broadcasting Network. To see more testimonies from CBN and The 700 Club , go to http://www.cbn.com"
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CBN.com –Sixteen-year-old Kelly Putty was a happy teenager with a bright future. One night, her life was brutally interrupted. She was running errands when she noticed two men parked next to her car.
“Something did not look right, but again I was from a small town, I was not trained in any kind of safety or what to look for,” Kelly said.
Kelly ignored the feeling and walked to her car.
“I got as far as putting my key in the lock and a man came up behind me with a knife and stuck it to my neck and told me if I said a word he would kill me,” Kelly said. “I really honestly could not think of what to do. I just froze.”
The men forced Kelly into the car and drove off.
“I was crying and begging them to let me out, and anytime I said anything they would punch me in the face,” she said. “So I quickly learned I couldn’t speak or do anything except just submit.”
The men drove to a secluded area and took turns raping Kelly.
“As it is happening it is so surreal, that you can’t image, like you’re watching a bad movie. You can’t imagine that this is happening to you,” Kelly said. “I’m in shock. I’m numb. I don’t know what to think. I don’t know what to feel. You just try to get through it.”
Kelly’s nightmare continued for hours into the night.
“The masks were off. I saw their faces,” Kelly said. “That is when I thought, ‘I’m gonna die; I’m not going to make it through this.’”
The men put Kelly back in the car and drove off. Then, in a bizarre twist, the men stopped to pick up the driver’s wife from work. With the wife at the wheel they drove past the location where Kelly had been abducted. The police were already on the scene.
“At this point, I saw my help and this was my only chance for survival; so I, I’m yelling at her to let me out of the car,” Kelly said.
The woman stopped the car and let her out. She ran to the police and told them what happened. The men were arrested and later received life sentences for the severity of their crimes. But Kelly was left with deep emotional and physical scars.
“After the rape, subconsciously I started letting go of everything normal to me,” she said. “Start this new life, pretend that this didn’t happen; I think that was my coping mechanism.”
But the scars remained. In Kelly’s attempt to begin her new life she started dating a boy named Shane. He was a Christian.
“I started going to church with him but I still was not willing to give my heart to the Lord,” she said. “I was doing what came natural and that was relying on Shane and trying to forget the past. Bury the past. That’s probably what I would have continued to do had I not gotten sick.”
As a result of the rape, Kelly was left with a medical condition that brought on cancer and infertility.
“They started me on these Chemo treatments. It was supposed to last eight weeks,” Kelly said. “During those eight weeks, Shane started praying and he got his church praying for me; and when I went back to the Doctor after the eight weeks, the Doctor was amazed. He said, ‘there is no scar tissue; there is nothing to show that you ever had any problems.’ This was the same doctor that stood up in court and testified that I would never be able to have children due to the complications from the rape.”
Kelly knew she had been miraculously healed by God, but Shane remained the center of her new life.
“I still relied on him to try to take these emotions away from me, to try to make me feel better,” she said. “I was still hurting from the rape. But it was so buried, I didn’t realize it, but it was all coming out in my neediness towards him.”
Before long, Kelly, who was just 17 was pregnant.
“I was petrified,” Kelly said. “When I discovered I was pregnant, it was a miracle in its self, because the doctor told me I was never going to be able to have children. So abortion was never an option.”
Kelly and Shane married after graduating from high school. They attended church regularly. While Shane’s fervor for God grew, Kelly’s heart remained hard. One Sunday morning, when she was eight months pregnant, she heard a sermon about what Jesus did on the cross for her.
“All of these things that he was describing were things that I needed to be free from: the shame, the fear, low self esteem. All these things that I was still trying to fix myself,” Kelly said. “I just knew this was my moment. He said, ‘Jesus can take this pain from you.’ I went down and he prayed with me and I accepted the Lord. That was just me giving all of my junk to God: the low self esteem, the shame, the guilt.”
Christ had lifted the shame off of Kelly, and some of the scriptures really spoke to her heart.
“Second Samuel 13, that is the story of Tamar where she was brutally raped by her brother,” Kelly said. “It was just God speaking to me, showing me that I was not the only one - you feel so alone, so shamed, like you are the only person that this has happened to.
Her next step in her journey with Christ was to forgive the people who raped her and stole so much from her. She tells how this happened.
“I just faithfully prayed about it,” she said. “Then I started feeling a peace about it. When I thought about the men, I did not have all the emotions that were tied to them that I had previously.”
Her act of forgiveness was put to the test one Sunday morning while visiting a church in her home town. The pastor asked people to come to the front of the church and pray for the person in front of them. As Kelly looked up, she realized the woman in front of her was the mother of one of her attackers.
“Instead of her son being the first person I saw when I looked at her, I was actually looking at her with a mother’s heart,” Kelly said. “I saw the heart of a mother in her and I saw how broken it was; and I was able to pray for her and I was able to pray for her son.”
Kelly has been set free from the emotional and physical wounds of her past. She and Shane have five children and they just adopted a sixth child from Ethiopia. She is a photographer and in her spare time she’s an artist.
“I want people to know that they can not make it in this world without God. I thought I could. I was on a road where I was ruthless and nothing would ever happen to me,” Kelly said. “But, life happens and that is when we realize we really need a Savior. It does not matter what you’ve been through, how ugly it is, what it looks like on the outside, the shame that comes with it - it can all be lifted off your shoulders; but only through allowing Jesus to come into your heart. That is what changes you and then you have to live it. His love and His grace will just overshadow all of the darkness.”
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"..Also at the age of 12, my father decided to give me a sex education lesson by raping me on multiple occasions. Until that point, I barely knew there were two genders in the world. He continued to take advantage of me sexually and used every opportunity to humiliate me. My parents constantly beat me and humiliated me. I was constantly being molested, raped, and beaten by drunken visitors. In order to cope and have some place of acceptance, several other kids from the militia experiment formed a street gang based on the knowledge we received from television. Our gang becames a force to be reckoned with. ..
Recommended Resources
*see Bible
*this was referred to a friend of mine, who was abused by his parents and others in different ways
-Speakers' Forum, topics from Pelzer speaks on, who is a "walking testimony" of an abused foster child turned "sucessful" in life!
”Human video acted out to Evanescence song "Bring Me To Life". Contains a graphic acting out of generational abuse. This drama was performed numerous times in a six month period. This is a compilation of four seperate performances edited together. It's been at least four years ago. It still moves me. Search remixthenoise for more info. Pt wrote it. There have been many requests for copies and downloads. Send a message through godtube. We'll try to accommodate all”
Meet Betty.
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rnBetty was born the result of a rape Betty was left at a girls home a few years later. She was molested five times. Betty ran away at age 15.
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rnBetty became a lesbian to get by. She left her lesbian lover to marry her lover's brother. Betty left him after a few years to protect herself and her daughter.
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rnBetty became a prositute to buy a refridgerator.
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rnBetty found Jesus at age 56. God reached out to her offering hope, and He is reaching out to you.
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rnMeet Betty
-Somalia
"..Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses.
The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said.
Initial local media reports said Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance....
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