An Unimaginable Act Quotes

“If someone would have talked in school about safe touch and unsafe touch, I believe I would have spoken up as a child and not been victimized over and over again for years, but that day never came, which is why my mission now is to protect children from the childhood I could not be protected from.”
― Erin Merryn, An Unimaginable Act: Overcoming and Preventing Child Abuse Through Erin's Law

“It is never easy for me to revisit the traumatic events from my life, whether I am writing them down or standing on a stage speaking to three thousand people. However, I do it because, unlike my innocence, the one thing I have been able to reclaim is my voice. I speak for every abused child out there. It is therapeutic and empowering.”
― Erin Merryn, An Unimaginable Act: Overcoming and Preventing Child Abuse Through Erin's Law

“I stared out at him, but his face was blurry through all my tears. The whites of his eyes are forever seared into my memory. I cannot get those eyes or his disgusting grin out of my head.”
― Erin Merryn, An Unimaginable Act: Overcoming and Preventing Child Abuse Through Erin's Law

“Like a broken film projector reel, the images keep replaying over and over in my mind, hauntingly vivid as if it just happened yesterday.”
― Erin Merryn, An Unimaginable Act: Overcoming and Preventing Child Abuse Through Erin's Law