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    The Weatherboard Shed- My Battle of Surviving Child Sexual Assault
    The Weatherboard Shed- My Battle of Surviving Child Sexual Assault
    The Weatherboard Shed- My Battle of Surviving Child Sexual Assault
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    The Weatherboard Shed- My Battle of Surviving Child Sexual Assault

    By Lucy Netherwood

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    I am an Adult Survivor of Child Sexual Assault. Eighteen months ago I recovered memories of being sexually assaulted for two years between the ages of 4 & 6.
    My book, The Weatherboard shed, is a short story of my experiences, as well as providing helpful information and support for other survivors and their families.
    I’m not sharing my story because I’m looking for sympathy or justice. Sympathy won’t change what happened, and there is no punishment that can provide true justice for offenders of child sexual assault. I’m telling my story in a hope to make more people aware that this is a real issue, the statistics are horrifying, and that so many stories go untold.
    I want to reach family and friends of victims- so they have some understanding of the impact sexual assault has on a victim’s life, for their whole life! So hopefully, they are more willing and able to listen, process, and talk about these crimes.
    I hope to reach other survivors- to provide them with some knowledge on the consequences of assault, to assure them they are not alone, to encourage them to disclose, and give them strength and courage to move forward in their lives.
    I want to reach perpetrators- to maybe give them some insight into what they are selfishly and unlawfully stealing from their victims, and the significant impact this can have throughout their entire life.
    And finally, I am writing this for me- in a hope that it will help with the healing process. I feel that if in in someway, even only a small way, I can help others, it means my battles have not been futile.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucy Netherwood
    Release dateNov 23, 2014
    ISBN9781310934612
    The Weatherboard Shed- My Battle of Surviving Child Sexual Assault

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      The Weatherboard Shed- My Battle of Surviving Child Sexual Assault - Lucy Netherwood

      PROLOGUE

      I am an Adult Survivor of Child Sexual Assault. For many reasons, this is very hard for me to say. Mostly because I only realized it last year, twenty-two years after the assault started.

      For a long time I had a ‘feeling’ something may have happened to me. There were certainly plenty of signs, as you’ll see throughout my story.

      It is still difficult for me to grasp that I managed to block out not only such traumatizing events, but also huge blocks of my childhood. However, since I have had the recovered memories, at twenty-six years of age, I now understand the science behind this. And actually, it is very common for victims of child sexual assault not to remember the events until years after, or sometimes not at all.

      I often wonder whether it would have been easier if I hadn’t remembered. The answer- yes, probably easier. But I truly believe that remembering what happened to me over a period of two years when I was four to six years of age, has helped to understand and address a myriad of issues in my life that are consequences of the assault. Kind of like a jigsaw puzzle…. Once I got the final piece, everything made sense.

      I’m not sharing my story because I’m looking for sympathy or justice. Sympathy won’t change what happened, and there is no punishment that can provide true justice for offenders of child sexual assault. I’m telling my story in a hope to make more people aware that this is a real issue, the statistics are horrifying, and that so many stories go untold.

      I want to reach family and friends of victims- so they have some understanding of the impact sexual assault has on a victim’s life, for their whole life! So hopefully, they are more willing and able to listen, process, and talk about these crimes.

      I hope to reach other survivors- to provide them with some knowledge on the consequences of assault, to assure them they are not alone, to encourage them to disclose, and give them strength and courage to move forward in their lives.

      I want to reach perpetrators- to maybe give them some insight into what they are selfishly and unlawfully stealing from their victims, and the significant impact this can have throughout their entire life.

      And finally, I am writing this for me- in a hope that it will help with the healing process. I feel that if in in someway, even only a small way, I can help others, it means my battles have not been futile.

      Throughout this book I will refer to Adult Survivor of Child Sexual Assault as ‘survivors’, simply because I think using the term ‘victim’ is a negative and unhelpful label. I don’t like to think of myself as a ‘victim’, and I’m sure many other survivors feel the same way.

      I wrote the poetry that is scattered throughout the chapters in the months following my recovered memories. Whilst some of the verses are

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