Pressroom - "Because I Love You: The Silent Shadow of Sexual Abuse" by Joyce Allan - Time to Speak, educating audiences about incest, and pedophilia; providing resources for survivors of child abuse and their families, including a community message board.

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Cover of *Because I Love You: The Silent Shadow of Child Sexual Abuse*, the new book about child sexual abuse launched in 2002 by VFH Press during the Virginia Festival of the Book.	Author Joyce Allan's depiction of how sexual abuse feels to a child.
Joyce Allan and her brother, pictured with their mother. Both children were victims of her pedophile father.	Joyce Allan, author of Because I Love You: The Silent Shadow of Child Sexual Abuse.
An adult survivor of sexual abuse can use therapy and books, as well as memories from family and friends, in order to assemble the puzzle pieces of a lost childhood, says author Joyce Allan.	Author Joyce Allan with her mother and sister today
Joyce Allan's father, George, with his family. As an adult, he abused dozens of children. At the time of this photograph (1920), the author discovered, George himself was already being abused by his uncle.