1. Nearly all Truth Project participants (94 percent) reported that child sexual abuse had a negative impact on them (Figure G.1).[1] Some victims and survivors said that it shaped their whole life:
“Words do not do justice to the scale of the impact … It has affected and continues to affect every aspect of my being, body, mind and soul. I was so young that I will never know who I could have been had it never happened.”[2]
Celeste, Truth Project participant
Figure G.1: Proportion of Truth Project participants who reported a specific impact of child sexual abuse Proportion of Truth Project participants who reported a specific impact of child sexual abuseLong Description