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Ask JBH #77: Aleesha Barlow - Empowering Survivors of Child Abuse

Ask JBH #77: Aleesha Barlow - Empowering Survivors of Child Abuse

Released Wednesday, 17th January 2024
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Ask JBH #77: Aleesha Barlow - Empowering Survivors of Child Abuse

Ask JBH #77: Aleesha Barlow - Empowering Survivors of Child Abuse

Ask JBH #77: Aleesha Barlow - Empowering Survivors of Child Abuse

Ask JBH #77: Aleesha Barlow - Empowering Survivors of Child Abuse

Wednesday, 17th January 2024
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Aleesha Barlow created Tell Somebody, Inc., an organization that works toward ending child abuse and silenced abuse of any kind. The Tell Somebody movement is about bringing awareness to parents that sexual abuse can and does happen.

"I am a survivor of child abuse. I was molested by my maternal grandfather and at age 6, I told my aunt that her father was touching me inappropriately. She told my mother, and they confronted my grandfather. He admitted it. I was told to keep it a secret from the police and my own father, with the promise the abuse would stop. Unfortunately he continued, and I never spoke up again. After 20 years, my father asked me if I had ever been molested in my life, I told him yes. I felt all the weight, burden and shame I had been carrying all those years, immediately lifted off my shoulders and I want all survivors to feel that! You are not alone. Don’t take it to the grave, Tell Somebody. It’s time to heal!" —Aleesha Barlow

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