Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN)

Tonight's special guest is Scott McKellar from Melbourne, Australia, a child abuse survivor. He recently participating in a book about Australia's male survivors, 'Telling My Story' (for info on the book write to: cath@shootingstar.pub). Born in 1970, Scott suffered significant child abuse starting at six by a stranger in a park and followed up later by sexual and physical abuse at the hands of tw...

Tonight's special guest is Amanda Carpenter from Nampa, Idaho, a new NAASCA family member who'll be sharing her story with us for the first time. "When I was two or three years old," she says, "there was an abuse situation with someone I knew and I did not remember this until I was 16 years old. I had already been forced to have this person in my life this whole time." About 60% of child sex abuse...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host is Bill Murray from Los Angeles, our founder. Bill's recovery is 12 Step-based and spans some four decades. Sexually abused by numerous clerics, all men, between the ages of...

Tonight's special guest is AmyAnna Soto from Modesto, California, a survivor of severe child abuse, rape and stalking who'll concentrate on telling her own story. As a public speaker she is passionate about mental wellness and overcoming trauma. "My trauma includes childhood sexual abuse, physical and mental abuse, rape and long-term stalking. Growing up the adults in my life were self-labeled sad...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special guest is is Pastor Deborah Schleich, who grew up all over the world in a military family where her mother was mentally ill, and is now a survivor-professional. Living in Pensacola, Fl...

Tonight's special guest is Teresa Lhotka from Minnetonka, Minnesota, the Executive Director/CEO at Missing Children Minnesota since 2014, and a volunteer since 2010. Teresa is also a Certified Victim Advocate and member of the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA). The mission of Missing Children Minnesota is to help in locating missing children; to provide advocacy and support servic...

Tonight's special guest is Maureen Seel from Brooklyn, New York, a child abuse survivor,  an artist and an author. She grew up in Missoula, Montana, was raised Evangelical Christian and her mother, who struggled both with borderline personality disorder and poly-substance abuse, held very strong fundamentalist beliefs. "Due to her own past trauma, my mother had taught me to fear Hell and to fear h...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special guest is Monica Boglin from Puyallup, Washington, a survivor of sexual, physical, and emotional child abuse. Her preditors were all family members, and her parents were intent on pass...

Tonight's special guest is Arthur Crowell from Minnetonka, Minnesota, a returning NAASCA family member. Art grew up in a matriarchal family system as the only male child. Over the course of 3 generations his family system had been plagued and riddled with abuse of almost every form. Growing up as an outsider in his own family system, Art felt like he was always looking in and he wondered about the...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host is Cherie White from Covington, Tennessee, an anti bullying advocate and author of three books who uses her own story of being bullied and gaslighted to help those enduring...

Tonight's special guest is Tracy Belle from Independence, Iowa. "I was the unwanted child of a 18 year old junkie who was gang raped," Tracy says. "She gave me to a couple who already had 17 children. My adopted father was just recently released from prison for raping two and molesting other of his biological daughters." They moved from Iowa to California. "My father was very inappropriate with hi...

Tonight's special guest is Erica Ortiz-Seiffert from Marietta, Georgia, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse by a religious cult that her biological mother was, and still is, a part of. Erica is 38 yrs old now, and was abused beginning as a child of 4 lasting until she was 12 by a member of the clergy. "I was prohibited from saying anything," she says, "for fear that the church/cult would get bad...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host is Dr Jaime Romo from San Diego, an educator, consultant, author, and Minister, who promotes prevention and healing from child sexual abuse, particularly abuse by religious...

Tonight's special guest is Jim Heaney from Chicago, Illinois, a survivor of child sexual abuse. He's an advocate and author of 'A Book for Someone', just released recently on Amazon. Jim was born into a poor Irish American family. At the age of eleven, while he delivered newspapers, he was profiled, groomed, sexually assaulted, and traumatized.  The following week, Jimmy was caught hiding the news...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight's special guest is Felisha Johnson from Miami, Florida, who has an incredible story of transformation. She was physically and sexually abused, taken from her family, and placed in the foster ca...

Tonight's special guest is Angie Baker from Lexington, Kentucky, a NAASCA family member who serves as our Kentucky Ambassador. Angie estimates she was sexually abused over 1000 times between ages 2 and 11 by her uncle, her dad's brother. Her mother saw these assaults but did nothing to help. In fact, she was physically and emotionally abusive to her daughter. As she grew older, Angie became a prom...

Tonight's special guest is Kermit McCown from Butte, Montana, a returning NAASCA family member, who has not been with us in years. Kermit notes that  it takes enormous courage on the part of a victim to just comes through one door and ask for help let alone navigate myriad of services scattered through the community, services such as police trained to deal with family violence, counselling for adu...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-guest is Synova Cantrell from Missouri, an Award-Winning Author, Speaker, Coach and a Life-Long Seeker of Knowledge & Wisdom. After a decade in the world of true crime &...

Q & A call-in discussion with survivor-professionals using an OPEN MIKE forum. Anyone can call in and we'll feature topics brought suggested for the show to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Those who call in will form a discussion panel. ~~ On these episodes we welcome various co-hosts, survivors and professionals who'll assist in fielding questions and lead a variety of topics suggested b...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host is Rev Henry (Hank) McGrath from Caroga Lake, New York, a child abuse survivor, author and NAASCA volunteer. Hank began life in a poor Irish family with 4 siblings in NY. Bo...

Tonight's special guest is John Anderson from River Ridge, Louisiana, a child abuse survivor, activist, volunteer and member of the NAASCA family. "My abuse started at the age of nine at St. Matthew in River Ridge, Louisiana," he explains. "It continued for three weeks in class in front of other students. I was threatened and scared. My friends saw Brignac abusing me with their own eyes. So did ma...

Tonight's special guest is Synova Cantrell from Missouri, an Award-Winning Author, Speaker, Coach and a Life-Long Seeker of Knowledge & Wisdom. After a decade in the world of true crime & victim advocacy, she's has taken her 10,000 hours of study and entered the self help field. Synova's a certified NLP Life Coach through the American Union of NLP. She's also the owner of Synova's 'Simply...

  Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host is Michelle Bless from Cincinnati, a survivor of severe child abuse who's now a Minister and Chaplain. She'll appear on the 1st Thursday of each month and is the author of...

Tonight's special guest is Ruby Clark from Paterson, New Jersey, a child abuse survivor, who's appearing for the first time on our show. Ruby is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder at Ruby's Vision, INC. Among other things they provide supportive services for mothers and their children whom are effected by homelessness. Their Housing and Homeless Shelter, and the Resource Center, help tr...

Q & A call-in discussion with a survivor-professional, using an OPEN MIKE forum. We'll feature a survivor-professional co-host who'll field topics brought to the episode by you, the listener. ~~ Tonight the special co-host is Bill Murray from Los Angeles, our founder. Bill's recovery is 12 Step-based and spans some four decades. Sexually abused by numerous clerics, all men, between the ages of...