Jewish Community Watch I am keeping my name anonymous for respect to some of the people close to me. As a victim of molestation I know how hard it can be to tell your mother, father, brothers, sisters, friends and even girlfriend or wife because you are afraid. What will they think? Will they even believe me?! You bury it deep inside yourself and you try your best to never let it out. You live with it but you’re not really alive. No matter how hard you try you can never escape the pain and darkness inside yourself. No matter how hard you try you can never really enjoy life. Nothing you do really makes you happy. There are no jokes that really make you laugh. To quote Rabbi Jacobson “you are the walking dead”. YOU need to know that you are not alone their are hundreds even thousands of victims just like you!!!!!!! True, some have worse cases than others and true that some suffer more than other victims. Many victims even loose the will to live and want to commit suicide, some do but you need to know that there are others like you and there are people who want to help!!!!! I never thought the day would come when I would tell the story of how I was molested by Mendel Tevel but I did. I went into a strangers home, into a room full of strangers and I shared my story. Never in a million years did I think the day would come where I would be looked at as a “hero” for telling my story but I WAS!!!!! Not only did they thank me for sharing, applauded me for my courage but I was approached personally by many people afterwards and told I am a hero. Yes, I was very scared at first but after it was all over I felt good, I felt like a burden had been lifted, I felt like I had actually accomplished something. I opened the eyes of all the men and women sitting in that room and gave many of them the push they needed to get off their asses and join the war against monsters who destroy lives. I am no longer ashamed of the fact that I was molested because I have nothing to be ashamed of and neither do you. You’re a hero for even living with such a thing for as long as you did and you will be recognized as a hero if and when you do choose to come forward. Coming forward will make you feel better and I can assure you that you will have hundreds maybe even thousands of supporter backing your efforts. I promise that if you do come forward you will NEVER be alone again. You will have friends to support you and you will become a part of a new kind of family. A family that supports and helps each other. A family you can feel comfortable speaking your mind with. A family of people like you. jewishcommunitywatch.org/op-ed-from-one-victim-to-all-the-others/
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:33:16 +0000
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