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 is 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, between the...

Tonight's special guest is Eileen Dong from Houston, Texas, a child abuse survivor and an advocate against domestic abuse, human trafficking, and sexual assault. Eileen is on the Advisory Board with SAAN, a sister organization, as the cross culture communications expert on domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. Pageantry has become Eileen’s platform for bringing awareness to the...

Tonight's special guest is Bettina Hauser from Miami, Florida, a survivor of sex trafficking. She came to the United States from Hungary at the age of 21 as a result of a human trafficking ring based in Florida. She was a part of the organization for a little over three years, but what’s impressive is how she grew through the pain. Bettina shares, “Shortly after I ran away, I met a man who became...

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 Felicia L Reed, a trauma-informed Recovery Coach who suffered the entire spectrum of abuses from the age of 5 to 51. That was the point when she started a healing an...

Tonight's special guest is Sky Lea Ross from Pasadena, California, a returning NAASCA family member and a survivor of child abuse. She was burned with cigarettes, scratched by fingernails, slapped in the face repeatedly, referred to with racial slurs and profanity, and neglected, causing her to be deprived of a 'normal' childhood. Born and raised in the poorer parts of Northern Pasadena, Sky came...

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 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 Pensaco...

Tonight's special guest is Dr Kelli Palfy from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the author of a new book, 'Men Too: Unspoken Truths About Male Sexual Abuse', which is available through Amazon. Kelli is a speaker and a registered psychologist at Peaks & Valleys Psychology. She began her professional career working in adult and youth corrections, where she noticed a disproportionate number of males in...

Tonight's special guest is Robert Cannata from New York City, an attorney with Cannata Law, who has alerted us to that there have been some recent developments with the Boys Scouts bankruptcy that affect sex abuse claims nationwide. He'll be joined by the principal of the firm, Gregory Cannata. Gregory has been a practicing NYC attorney for 41 years. He began his career with the Bronx District Att...

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 Maryellen Spoonhower from Berkshire, New York, New York, a NAASCA family member who's telling her story with us as a 'special guest' for the first time. She shares, "I grew up with 5 siblings. I believe if you were to ask them to describe our upbringing, they would tell you a story of life in the country with many happy experiences, and being raised by our father who lov...

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...

Tonight's special guest is Alexandria Dean from Franklin, Tennessee. She experienced childhood abuse but no longer describes herself either as a victim or as a survivor; she is redeemed! People say that those who have been hurt like this can never get over this and are damaged for the rest of their lives. Alexandria is living proof that kind of talk is a LIE. There IS life after such trauma, and l...

Tonight's special guest is Dave (& Melora) Vogel from Punta Gorda, Florida, grandparents, advocates and authors 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 by the child’s mothe...

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 Robin Marvel from Michigan, a survivor of child abuse an activist and an author. Robin has written extensively on healing childhood trauma and even offers online cou...

Tonight's special guest is Isana Wild from British Columbia, Canada, a child abuse survivor and author of 'Unfinished: a Personal Journey of Healing, Self-Discovery and Resilience'. She explains, “I encountered multiple forms of abuse and before the age of eight, I had lived through repeated sexual abuse from my oldest brother and a friend of the family. I lived in constant fear, not only of what...

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 Eleanor Cowan from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, a returning NAASCA member who's a gifted writer. Her memoir, 'The History of a Pedophile's Wife,' recounts how she and her siblings were treated in childhood and how this played out in her choice of a spouse and father of her children – a man who came to betray her trust by brutally assaulting her children sexually and emotion...

Tonight's special guest is Michelle Frey from Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, a survivor of abuse, who also handles child abuse in her professional role as a Forensic Nurse Examiner and RN at York Hospital. She shares, “I have witnessed or have been the recipient of abuse for a large portion of my life. Physical and sexual abuse runs rampant on my father’s side of the family. Incest has affected many...

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 Shellilyn Marie from Honolulu, Hawaii, a returning NAASCA family member and survivor of child abuse. She shares, “For nearly 20 years I have been trying to write my experiences of the world as a biracial child raised from birth to 18 years, in an all-white foster home with over 170 children that were abused, beaten, tortured, molested, raped, trafficked, neglected and st...

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 Amber DeAnn from San Jose, California, a returning NAASCA member and child abuse and PTSD survivor who's now a relationship coach, hypnotherapist, author of ‘Release...

Tonight's special guest is Michael Caruso from Ft Lauderdale, Florida, who was sexually abused from 4 to 11 years old by several men where he grew up, Newark, New Jersey. "My father was gone by age 2 (heroin addict) my mom had me at 19 and didn't want a child," Michael says. "There was no love or affection in the family. I was beaten till I bled with wood spoons by my mother, and my grandpa beat m...

Tonight's special guest is James Buffin from Toronto, Ontario, a returning NAASCA family member. "After experiencing some horrific sexual abuse and betrayal by a caregiver as a pre-teen I lived a fragmented alienated existence for over 30 years," James says. "Because I was uneducated about the long-term impact of child sex abuse, I had no idea that the problems I carried were actually symptoms of...

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 Felicia L Reed, a trauma-informed Recovery Coach who suffered the entire spectrum of abuses from the age of 5 to 51. That was the point when she started a healing an...

Tonight's special guest is Lika Saliscente-Phipps from Racine, Wisconsin, a returning NAASCA family member. "I'm a survivor of abuse of many levels," Lika says. After living with a physically and verbally abusive father, a passive aggressive and manipulative mother, and dealing with abuse from her siblings, her first attempt to escape the abuse by marrying did not work out. Lika was scapegoated no...