Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2640

Tonight's special guest is Sean Wheeler from Loveland, Colorado. He says, "Being groomed and sexualized even before entering kindergarten was confusing and fearful. Traffickers like to keep their victims afraid and they did a good job with me. Three things summarize those feelings: shame, guilt and fear." Sean continues, "When my parents divorced and my mom found a new job in another state I was able to escape that network, but the damage was done. There was not just one abuser, and I was offered up to both men and women. There are no outward physical injuries, though I was beaten by the abusers." He explains, "My abuse started with the grooming before age 5, but I was actively networked from 5 to just before turning 10. After that we moved away from that town, however I still encountered predators and the last time I was 'gotten' I was age 19." Sean goes on, "In 2010 I met a lady in my former church who turned out to be a Christian Counselor with survivors of abuse. She started me on a healing process that continues to this day, which I describe in my book 'Wretch – Haunted by Shadows, Rescued by Jesus'." Sean's doing much better today. "How I feel now is a lot better than I ever have in my entire life. I still work off and on with Christian counselors, because while the 'network' I was in lasted for part of my growing up years, it created in me a person who was vulnerable. Later on if people hit on me I complied, because I believed a lie of the enemy that it's what I was created for. I didn't know I had a choice, and quite honestly to a kid who felt alone I figured fake love was better than nothing."