One in every six girls in the United States and one in four boys is molested during childhood, according to the National Institution of Justice Report.

Victims of child sexual abuse heal with counseling and support

EL PASO – She fidgeted, playing with her hands and biting her nails, making very little eye contact as she sat on the sandy ground of the park piling the sand as if making a small castle. Before today, she had never told anyone what had happened so many years ago. “Walking through the front door I knew it was going to happen again. I knew I had to stand there and feel his wrinkled cold hands with that one stiff finger, waiting for me.”

Catalina, now 23, was molested as a child starting at age seven by her grandfather.  She asked that her real name not be published.