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Podcast: The Jan Broberg Show
Episode: Tell Somebody : Unmasking the Hidden Epidemic with Aleesha Barlow
Description: [Content Warning]: Child sexual abuse, incestToday, Jan is joined by Aleesha Barlow, a sur-thrivivor of child abuse and the origin story of the Tell Somebody movement. As a child, she was molested by her maternal grandfather. At age 6, she told her aunt. Aleesha was then instructed by her 2 aunts and mother, to keep it a secret from the police and her own father with the promise the abuse would stop. Aleesha was still brought around her grandfather, and unfortunately the abuse continued until she was a teenager. It took Aleesha 20 years to tell her...