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Review of Abbott House, Inc

I will never forget this:

I will never forget this:

Three young girls showed up at my door and were trying to escape. I did not understand what or where they were trying to escape from, but I knew they were scared, wanting to leave and obviously troubled.

I am not going to tell you guys how to do your job because I understand that taking care of these children as a job might desensitize you from how much pain that they are in, but I want it brought to the attention of whoever this concerns that these children are not faking abuse.

Children this age do not naturally want to harm themselves. Even if they put a pencil eraser to their arms over and over again and "burn" themselves, it is most likely because they are trying to show abuse and they are unable to explain or recognize it on a conscious level. Whoever abused them is not being held accountable, has fled, gone away or is good at hiding it and manipulating children. This could possibly be a member of the staff or their own families. Just know that children that harm themselves like this do so because they are abused, damaged, manipulated . They are unable to talk about it or pinpoint the abuser, and can only mimic it in order to tell their story. Children that are abused and want to escape either the abuser or the memory harm themselves in this way. Most likely, in my opinion, they are still being abused.

Maybe you guys are doing the best that you can, as they are not your children/problem, but I just wanted to tell the psychological aspect of it. This is probably a tough job for the people here.