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Healing from child sexual abuse is often difficult but not impossible

  • Written by Maria Khan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, West Virginia University
imageMost child sexual abuse involves people the children know.ajijchan via Getty Images

A mayor, a karate instructor, a former cop, an award-winning journalist and a pastor. All five of these individuals in positions of authority or trust made headlines within the past year in connection with childhood sexual abuse.

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