Janice For my class project I interviewed a former victim of sexual abuse named Janice, she proved the statistic that 1 out o 3 girls will be abused before there 13th year. The first time she encountered sexual abuse was in her younger years in middle school in the 6th grade at the age of 11. I always wondered if sexual abuse would shape or change a persons life, I decided to ask her the following question. Did sexual abuse shape or change your life in any way? she responded "Yes it did, I turned to drugs and alcohol to run from it started doing bad in school i hurt myself" There was a pause "I could've been someone else." Many victims never speak out or speak out later on but before that they turn to something worse to hide or try to forget the damage that these sick minded people have caused to there innocent souls. Many of us ask ourselves why don't these victims speak out but really its not as easy as it sounds. We continued with the following questions