Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN)

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 will be 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...

Tonight's special guest is Deanna Culver from Appleton, Wisconsin, a survivor of child abuse and neglect, as well as a photographer/artist, writer, actor, producer, and director. She grew up in a few foster homes and then returned to her biological parents; however, her mother was addicted to prescription medications. Deanna relates, “I grew up mentally, emotionally, and physically abused. I was t...

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 will be Carlotta Taylor from Clinton, Mississippi, a survivor of child abuse by her own family and in foster care. After searching for her purpose for years, she learned it...

Tonight's special guest is Sally Linn from Washington State, founder and speaker at 'Truth Speaks, LLC', where they feature Sexual Assault Prevention Webinars & Presentations. The mission of Truth Speaks is to speak the truth about sexual harassment, abuse, and assault in a non-threatening environment, to produce change. Sally was trained as the teen Sexual Assault Prevention Educator at Rebui...

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 will be Bill Murray from Los Angeles, our founder. Bill's recovery is 12 Step-based and spans some 3 and a half decades. Sexually abused by numerous clerics, all men, betwee...

Tonight's special guest is Richard Hayes Phillips from Canton, New York, a musician, historian, geologist, trail worker and published author, who has only recently come out as an adult survivor of child sexual abuse after half a century of silence. He was taken by brute force, twice, at Camp Boyhaven, not by adults, but by gangs of Boy Scouts, two the first time, five the second time. He told no o...

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 be 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, F...

Tonight's special guest is Jessica De La Cruz (Negra) from Kent, Washington, a survivor of child abuse. Originally from Texas, her young life was spent with a strict and violent step father. When her mom left him, she began using and dealing drugs with her new boyfriend .. cocaine and heroine. Negra stole her mother's car at 12 to go to McDonald's and was beaten for it later. But, since she could...

Tonight's special guest is Amber Jewell, LMSW, from Kansas, a survivor of many kinds of child abuse, neglect and hurt. She spent many years in foster care along with being in homes fueled by addictions and mental illness. Amber endured a social stigma that many at-risk kids experience as she fought the years of psychological and emotional abuse. As a young adult, Amber faced the risk of death due...

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 will be Linda Vidi, a survivor, counselor, writer, speaker, and advocate. Linda was sexually abused from age 6 through 9 by her biological father and continues to have repre...

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 will be Sharyn Higdon Jones, a licensed psychotherapist for over 35 years with individuals, couples and families who have experienced the trauma of abuse. In her words: “The...

Tonight's special guest is Deana, PhD, (pronounced "Dee-na") from New Jersey. Her birth father abandoned the family when she was 2. "My mother's second husband was a child-molester," she says, "[who] began molesting my sisters and me at 4 and 5 years old. My mother was an alcoholic and verbally and physically abusive. We were often neglected and left to our own device." Deana reports that her olde...

Tonight's special guest is Melora Vogel from Punta Gorda, Florida, grandparent,  advocate and co-author (with her husband, Dave) of 'Protecting TROY: Breaking the Chain of Child Abuse', a shocking personal story about two caring grandparents who find themselves in the midst of a custody battle concerning their two-year-old grandson, Troy (from Georgia), who they believed had been neglected his mot...

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 will be Dr Jaime Romo from San Diego, California, an educator, consultant, author, and Commissioned Minister, who promotes healing from abuse and the prevention of child sex...

Tonight's special guest is Michael Walter from Scottsdale, Arizona, a child abuse survivor and author. Michael shares, “My childhood was framed and formed by abuse. I was sexually assaulted by both parents beginning at the age of 5 and it continued until I was an early teen. Beatings were common. I was often hit with an open hand, backhand, leather belt, any item that was in easy reach. Psychologi...

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 be Lori Golden from San Diego, California, a survivor and a private psychotherapist working with other trauma and abuse survivors. Lori shares, “I am a survivor of incest. M...

Tonight's special guest is Raquel Mallett from Westland, Michigan, a survivor who was raped by her teacher/assistant principal in high school. Raquel states, “During the abuse he became my godfather and he viewed me as his daughter. It actually got to a point where I was calling him dad and he would introduce me to others as his daughter. His family were my family and I trusted him with my whole h...

Tonight's special guest is Hilda Thomasine Wren from Frederick, Maryland, an abuse survivor and author of the book 'A Plain Brown Wren'. The autobiography is a true story about a child growing up in a household of terror from alcoholics, drug addictions and a aunt who had her postituting at age 12. She was sexually, verbally, emotionally and physically abused by many who were all adults and no one...

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 will be Suzanne (Alden) Isaza, MSA, NAASCA's Ambassador from Rhode Island. A survivor of childhood sexual abuse by a close family member, at 19 she reported the offender, an...

Tonight's special guest is Randy McNeely from Muscatine, Iowa, a survivor of both sexual and verbal abuse. He knows what it is like to live in fear and continual ridicule. He knows what it is like to feel extreme anger and animosity towards perpetrators of heinous acts. He knows what it is like to feel as if life isn’t worth living and contemplate ending it all. However, as author of 'The Kindness...

Tonight's special guest is Pamela Elaine Lockridge from Robeline, Louisiana, who'll talk about her horrendous past as a child sex slave from the age of four to eighteen. She'll also reveal how she was finally able to escape the lifelong terror of her captor. Pamela is NAASCA's Ambassador to Alabama and the the author of a book, "I Was a Whore at Four: the redemptive story of a child sex slave." As...

Tonight's special guest is Maryann Petri from Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, who lost her children to a biased Family Court system which eventually led to parental alienation. Once a Registered Nurse with a happy family, Maryann found herself fending off back-to-back accusations of child abuse. She says, "I became a Pro Se Litigant, appealing to Superior Court with a victory that proved life-saving." He...

Tonight's special guest is Tanisha Bankston from Grenada, Mississippi, a child abuse and domestic violence survivor. She shares, “I was taken away from my mom at the age of 5. I failed kindergarten at the age of 5 because my mom didn’t send me to school. My mom didn’t feed us. We had lost a lot of weight. The welfare people came and took my brothers, sister, and me. We were placed with our family....

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 will be 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...

Tonight's special guest is Charles De Leon from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who's directed a documentary, 'The 20 Year Journey', about adult male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Charles shares, “I grew up in a section of North Philadelphia that earned the nickname ‘The Badlands’. I learned early on that if you wanted to make it you had to be hard. A lesson...