“I was only 8. And yet I learned that this ‘gift’ I had been given could not save me from the men who had given it. I learned that my role was to was stay silent. I learned that God did not answer the pleas of his daughters, no matter how earnestly they begged him for help. I learned that any attempt to speak up would bring even greater condemnation and pain. And now, many decades later, I am still struggling to find my voice.”

— Lauren C., Springdale UT

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