Q&A with Mike Skinner, advocate for survivors of childhood abuse.
Article excerpt - Goffstown’s Mike Skinner is a survivor of childhood sex trafficking at the hands of his parents. Two of his siblings took their own lives. He feels that trauma, particularly childhood trauma, lies beneath and is a definitive factor of what is termed “mental illness.” If you get run over by a Mack truck there will be tire tracks.
The statistics from the CDC are sobering. One out of four women is sexually abused by the age of 18 and one half all reported rapes occur before that same age. Nearly one out of four men in the U.S. experience some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetime.
Skinner has traveled extensively in North America and has given presentations and musical performances to groups as diverse as police chiefs at a conference sponsored by the State Department, the United Nations and Georgetown University, and women inmates in a Hawaiian penitentiary.
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