Qoutes

You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust hasb een betrayed and your dignity has been violated. We are all scandalised by the sins and failures of some of the Church's members.
Pope Benedict XVI
Apology to Irish victims of sex abuse by priests, in a letter to Irish Catholics.
I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was hockey. . . She'd apologise. She was in pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you're three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.
Brenda Fricker
Actress on how her bipolar manic depressive mother used to beat her as a child.
Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.
Gabriel Byrne
Actor on how he was sexually abused by Christian Brothers when he was an altar boy in Dublin. He said he was also abused by member of clergy when he moved to England at age of 11 to train as a priest.
She took my father from my life oh
Took my sister and brothers oh
I watched her torturing my child
Feeble I was then but now I'm grown
Fire on Babylon
Sinead O'Connor
Singer on how her mother abused her as a child, from song Fire on Babylon.
The Christian Brothers were fairly mangled fellows in Navan. Some men speak highly of them. Unfortunately I never saw that. I just remember the brutality. The Paddtbats, the straps that would fly out of the soutane like vipers' tongues, the beatings amidst the prayers - whack!
Pierce Brosnan
Actor on his abuse by religious brothers while a boy at school in Ireland.
Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.
Herbert Ward
Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.
Tim Roth
If the FBI's motivating factor for busting down the Koresh compound was child abuse, how come we never see Bradley tanks smashing into Catholic churches?
Bill Hicks

Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United States. It was estimated that in 2001, 903,000 children were the victims of child abuse or neglect. Child abuse is a crime perpetrated on the innocent and the defenseless.
Pete Domenici
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.
Rick James
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
John Sculley
I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.
Kenny Guinn
Child abuse does not go away, but 90 percent of child abuse is preventable.
Karen Adams
Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.”
Matt Blunt
Most of the people we see don't want to live in a shelter and feel safe in their own little camp. Experience has taught me that almost 100 percent of these people suffered abuse as children. Well over half have emotional, mental problems. Most have drug and alcohol problems.
John Gallagher
Abuse changes your life...Fight Back and change the life of your abusers by Breaking Your Silence on Abuse!
Patty Rase Hopson

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.
Matt Blunt

The consequences of your denial will be with you for a lifetime and will be passed down to the next generations. Break your Silence on Abuse!
Patty Rase Hopson

The only reason why child abuse is alive today, is because we as adults fail our children when we fail to listen to them. Listen to a child today!
Heather McClane

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
Wendy Craig

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
William P. Leahy

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
Tatum O'Neal
In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
Bob Ney

It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.
Chris Witty
A lot of people in our community don't want to believe that child abuse happens in their neighborhoods — but it does.
Shari Pulliam

When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
Tatum O'Neal

At least half of child abuse victims want to physically see or visit with the offender. They feel that any kind of clarity about why those things happened can help healing.
Gary Schoener

Child abuse and neglect is sometimes the result of a parent who reaches the end of their frustration and tolerance level. If we can give parents tools to deal with an infant who is particularly challenging with their crying, we will have taken an important step toward our prevention mandate.
Gary Kleeblatt

Child abuse is a problem no one really talks about. Abuse and neglect is the number 1 cause of injury to children in the country. More children die of abuse or neglect than of natural causes.
Donna Miller

Not many networks like to make movies about child abuse... Most people cannot watch films about the subject. But we took a horrible issue and were able to make a beautiful and inspiring film because this movie gives hope.
Craig Anderson
Executive producer of For the Love of a Child, a film dealing with child abuse.