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For Immediate Release:
April 24, 2009 |
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Contact: Sharon P. Axson (843) 747-4175 |
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Brown Honored for Efforts to Stop Child Sexual Abuse
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WASHINGTON, DC- Earlier this week, Darkness to Light, the leading organization working to reduce and identify child sexual abuse in the US, awarded Congressman Henry E. Brown Jr. (R-SC) with the Inaugural Congressional Voice of Courage Award. After being presented with the award for his work in bringing the topic of child sexual abuse to the forefront, Congressman Brown made the following remarks:
“Thank you Anne Lee and Darkness to Light for this honor. I have been proud to support this cause since I came to Congress in 2002 and believe that their mission to help fight child sexual abuse is one that we should all support.
Since those days, the impact of the work by Anne and her staff has spread quickly, training over 1,000 facilitators in over 40 states. That training will, in South Carolina alone, result in more than 10,000 adults being educated on how to recognize, react and respond to child sexual abuse.
Darkness to Light works daily to raise awareness and ensure that children are free to enjoy their childhood and be productive adults. And with one in four girls and one in six boys being sexually abused before their 18th birthday, it is going to take all of us stepping up to protect them. Darkness to Light gives adults the tools to do just that.
We all have a role to play in protecting children from abuse. In the words from a refrigerator magnet I have at home, ‘one hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the type of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove, but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.’ Thank you again to Darkness to Light for the recognition of the small part I have played in their admirable mission, but most importantly, thank you Anne Lee for all you have done for the children of South Carolina and the nation.” |
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