Hi. My name is Shyla. I’m the author of Shadowed Passage, book three of the Anath series. After many years as a nurse, private investigator and work on a police force, I’ve accumulated information from different aspects of the topic that became part of my series.
Though some will turn away from the topic in nonchalance, apathy, or disgust, I found I could not.
According to David Finkelhor, Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center, one in five girls and one in twenty boys become victims of child sexual abuse. In a society that supposedly treasures their children, this is reprehensible. Even though most victims survive – their maltreatment has long-reaching affects. Children are most vulnerable to child sexual abuse between the ages of seven and thirteen.
Many researchers agree that abuse is underreported.
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