Mariella Furrer: My Piece of Sky

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you–Maya Angelou When I was about five years old, I was sexually abused by a stranger … The molestation could not have lasted more than a couple of minutes, but the incident affected my lif

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I want to start this post by commending Mariella Furrer for taking on the heroic task of shedding light on the the global phenomenon of child sexual abuse. It’s a subject that many would rather not see brought to light, but by forcing us to look at and experience the trauma that these acts produce, it will only make our war cry against them louder. Mariella started documenting child sexual abuse in 2002 when a U.S. women’s magazine hired her to take photographs for a story about infant rape in South Africa