Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2463

Tonight's special guest is Wandra Denice Brown from New York City a survivor of severe violent, physical and sexual abuse. Emotionally she was broken. "I was in the foster care system my whole childhood life," she shares. "I never had a childhood at all." In her youth she was sodomized, buried alive in the backyard, made to on the hot stove, branded. "My foster dad taught me to take pain and don’t scream or yell just take it," she explains. "After that I became mute for two years." Wandra describes herself as the most determined woman in this universe. "I have been in and out of 23 foster homes. When there was no one there to encourage me, I had to encourage myself. They thought I was crazy because I would not speak but here I am today to transform my silence into words." This is a a resilient young woman, a student in progress, who just graduated from Touro College for child psychology, her first professional degree. "I am here to help a child to make a difference out of their life. Just because of what I have went through. The abuse this has caused me to help make a difference out of another child’s life to help them become encouraged to help them become strong to help them to become all that they can be." She concludes, "I’m looking forward to working inside the system helping the traumatized children by helping them heal. These children needs to be loved and healed emotionally. They need to know that in spite of all that you have been through you can still make it you can still survive you can still become resilient, no matter what happened. I still survived. Never give up or even give in. The idea in life is is for you win."