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Sexual Assault Survivors Support

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Blue_In_AK

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Thu Jun 18, 2015, 05:36 PM Jun 2015

Outing the Bogeyman [View all]

This is a very powerful piece by David Holthouse, who writes for the Anchorage Press. Please read to the end.


http://anchoragepress.com/cover/outing-bogeyman




I am going to destroy a man and I want you to bear witness. It’s important that I have witnesses. Because I am writing on behalf of a little boy who long ago suffered in secret. He grew up to become a writer who is about to destroy a man with two words and one letter.

First name. Last name. Middle initial.

I’m taking a life for a life, because childhood sexual assault is a form of murder, and he’s guilty of it. Whoever I was going to be without a childhood stripped of innocence was extinguished in the fall of 1978 on the night he raped me. I was seven years old.

I have no mercy left for this man, no forgiveness. My vengeance is not cold, not sweet, nor righteous. But it is necessary.

I made a promise. And now I mean to keep it.

<snip>



I am happy to report that our dysfunctional legislature did manage to finally pass Erin's Law during the recently completed legislative special session.
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Outing the Bogeyman [View all] Blue_In_AK Jun 2015 OP
Wow. Thank you for being so brave, David. May you heal and here's to hoping he can uppityperson Jun 2015 #1
Brave AuntPatsy Jun 2015 #2
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