Critically Acclaimed Author Shares Personal Story of Abuse, Healing & Hope

Laurie Ann Smith of One Child Abuse Survivor 2 Another and Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention at Blog Talk Radio will be hosting this show with me. Every two minutes, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted and of the millions of sexual abuse and rape victims, 15 percent are under the age of 12, according to a 2007 study by the U.S. Department of Justice. Critically acclaimed author Mary DeMuth is among the millions of adults who are victims of childhood rape and are living with the emotional scars of the haunting abuse. DeMuth bravely shares her painful story in her new memoir, Thin Places. Repeatedly raped by two neighborhood boys at a young age, she details her traumatic and disturbing childhood in the memoir. Raised in a broken home, she lost her biological father when she was ten and was stripped of her innocence growing up in an unstable environment where drugs were commonplace. But Thin Places is about hope and healing more than it is about the traumatic events of DeMuth’s childhood.

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