Description
There are often blank spaces in many child sexual abuse survivors’ memories – who bury the abuse and often return to confront it only as adults. They return, either with determination to find some semblance of justice, or with the hope that speaking about their stories will help someone today, to speak about theirs.
In this episode of Unmute, we speak to a few adult survivors of CSA to find out what their stories are and how their lives are still impacted and forever changed by the sexual abuse they faced as children.
Host: Urmi Bhattacheryya
Producer: Shorbori Purkayastha
Editor: Shelly Walia
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