Ask Me About the Financial Costs of Sexual Abuse and Incest

Dear Senator Will Brownsberger,

At 59, I still spend days working my brain out of chronic PTSD symptoms and dissociation that is so alive it changes all of my senses, just so I can sit and breathe. It is not war PTSD. Growing up, I gladly used any destructive patterns of living I could to understand how to stay alive everyday.

For 15 years, I was raped in my family. I have been homeless 5 times because I was terrified of living in place that might remind me of the home I grew up in. Nine times, I have tried to complete my college education. My life has been saturated with damages caused by incest and I’ve had 4 abortions. I have lived in poverty often. I have been under-employed.

Chronic alcholism and sexual abuse are growing in my family. I have been continously sober for 34 years. Do you know all of the incredible, healthy and strong differences I could have made in the world? Inventions have been lost; medical diseases were never stopped; and honest human rights issues could have been finally addressed.

In Catholic schools, I was sexually assaulted by nuns and raped by a priest. Having intense learning disabilities and PTSD, I flunked 12 years of education. My father was a wealthy, Catholic, business person in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. So getting a diploma from Regis highschool was not a concern.

There are millions of us who have been ravaged by sexual abuse. Incest is proven to go back almost 7 generations in one’s family. My senses have been almost destroyed. However, I am greatful for neuroscience and for learning how to heal and change my brain chemistry… and it’s great that there is more honest awareness of sexual abuse … but it’s not enough. In this crime, crimminals need to be financially and morally responsible to the persons they destroy. This prosess is the only education and solution to this crime that will work. Wasting the knowledge and human resources that preditors and victims have about these crimes will only grow and invigorate sexual abuse. When people are educationed they are confident in daily living and become whole. I would like to help with this issue in whatever way I can.

Thank you for your time and attention.
Sincerely,

Marcene Magadance 2455 Londin Lane East Condo 217 Maplewood, MN 55119 651-698-3771 magadancemarcene@yahoo.com

I would like to help you in whatever way I can.

Thank you for your time and attention.
Sincerely,

Marcene Magadance 2455 Londin Lane East Condo 217 Maplewood, MN 55119 651-698-3771 magadancemarcene@yahoo.com

Thank you for your time and attention.
Sincerely,

Marcene