1/22/18
Dear Senator ….. :
Before I must leave New Mexico for good, I would like to
share the burden I have carried since 1994.
Abuse in the USA shows its devastating effects every day and
has become the most hidden secret, while festering in the background and
destroying the well-being of society. The denial is monumental. Although
partially established by science the evidence of the long term consequences of
abuse is obvious yet government and society choose to remain blind.
In 1994, I founded the organization “First aid for Victims”,
but the name changed in 1998 to “Adults Abused as Children Worldwide"
closed in 2016.
In one year after I open the Website, over 5000 victims
contacted me with their experience of childhood abuse and with it the reality
of how much impact these early horrific experiences still have in their adult
lives. Many have reached for drugs to dull their despicable memory and feel
“normal” - at least for a while.
In 2000, I wrote to 36 universities in the USA and Europe
asking if research could provide evidence that children have PTSD, changed
hormones such as higher/lower cortisol levels. I received only one answer:
“children have no PTSD”.
Today, we know there is childhood PTSD and there is
overwhelming evidence that child abuse produces methylated genes.
To push the subject of research in 2000, I wrote to
President Clinton encouraging research. You will find his answer:
http://boxbook.com/category/letters/
President Clinton wrote: …“We have also worked with the
Congress to pass laws that support child abuse prevention efforts in state and
local jurisdictions. In addition I have signed legislation aimed at tracking
sexually violent offenders and safeguarding our young people from them..."
However, I was never informed if the money was used for research or other preventive measures.
However, I was never informed if the money was used for research or other preventive measures.
My Book started an organization in Germany that ended in a confrontation with the German Government. The German Government installed a round table in 2010 that revealed that over 800 000 children in post-war Germany were severely abused while in child protective care.
Programs such as “child protection agencies” are ill-equipped and insufficiently educated to deal with the present amount of abused children and consequently will be ineffective in the future. The outdated cognitive intervention/therapy is a waste of time and money when genes are altered and childhood victims must live with the imprint of psychological and physical injury. We need a scientific approach and should enlist help from NIH, Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science, regarding gene editing/de-methylation.
The reality of abuse must be approached in two ways, legally and scientifically. If we don’t intervene now, people with medical and psychological disorders will multiply, because abuse is self-perpetuating from generation to generation. Illnesses caused by damaged genes will reach an elevated amount no government can handle and no insurance can pay for the medical effects of child abuse.
The latest exposure of the 13 Turpin children starved and
tortured in their California home is just one example of countless who were
abused in childhood, like their mother was. Not all childhood-abused become
abusers but their life is altered by fear and fear gives way to aggression,
depression, psychological/cognitive decline and at the end to denial and
possible repetition.
For this reason, combined with my 24 years’ experience with
childhood abused adults, I would like to request a personal meeting with you at
your Albuquerque office, to address the subject of abuse and especially sexual
abuse in the USA.
In particular, I would like to point out the reason why Mew
Mexico is on top of the list of high crime, high drug abuse and drug overdose
and number 49 in educational performance.
Sincerely,
Sieglinde Alexander
