Victim Uses Her Words to Heal

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"Howdy!" Amerah Shabazz-Bridges greets the audience. An apt salutation at a cowboy conference, perhaps, but Shabazz-Bridges was here to discuss something rarely talked about.

"I was raped by a family member, my mother's lover," she told the crowd gathered Tuesday for the Memphis Child Advocacy Center's honors luncheon.

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Victim Uses Her Words to Heal

She was first attacked when she was 13; the perpetrator held a snub-nosed pistol to her head. If she told, he'd kill her.

But she did tell - a nun at the Catholic school she attended in Jackson, M...

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