I M Perfect lady

In the paper yesterday two young girls spoke up about their abuse…and their abusers are now in the court system.  While many may focus on what kind of punishment the men will get, I see this from how it affects the young girls.

Their courage to speak of what happened to them is extremely powerful in their lives.  They are no longer victims when they speak out.  No matter how the sentencing goes, these girls will not carry a secret, consciously or unconsciously, about themselves.  They will carry no shame.

Their wounds are being aired out in childhood, being expressed and voiced to adults in their lives…and they are being heard.

It is my belief, that they will heal faster and perhaps not have their abuse linger and bleed into their lives, by treating it today, in their childhood.

They are able to see their abuse as being a crime of the men, not of the child.

They will not carry the burden any longer of their untold story.  It has been told, it has been heard, and the men are labeled for who they are.

As the men are addressed as the perpetrators, the child feels their innocence.  It is this return to innocence, to come out behind the secret that will reset their inner worthiness.

Abuse doesn't have to carry a life sentence when it is categorized in the truthful manner of what it is.  To see, the imbalanced scales of what happened, who was in power and who was powerless.

The most damaging part of child abuse is when it goes untreated, unspoken about, and that the child never gets her innocence back.

I know the courage it takes to stand up, to say out loud what most don't want to hear…and I was an adult.  I am in awe of the girls, these little girls, who have the strength to do this.  I wish the papers would write about this from the girls perspective and not that of the criminal.

What a brilliant story it would be if told in their own words…they are my heroes.