Sunday mornings are filled with praise and worship in church buildings across the South, but when one grandmother began to jingle her keys to leave her home and go to her place of worship there were three little black grandchildren who began to shake with fear and trembling.
That's because Johnnetta McSwain and her sister and male cousin were forced to endure severe child incestand abuse by three older male cousins while their mother's mother went off to church. And on Jan. 25, in a phone conversation with this past abuse victim, the Atlanta Top News Examiner learned why other children who suffer such abuse ask this question of McSwain when she goes to tell them how she overcame her victimization: How can you believe and talk about God when he allowed this to happen to you and to me?
Myls Dobson was a four year old staying in a luxury tower in Midtown with a female friend of his incarcerated father when his beatings and burnings began the day after Christmas. He's dead now, and police have charged Kryzie King, his father's female friend, with assault and reckless endangerment. The New York Times reported on Jan. 9 that King insists the injuries to the child resulted when Myls Dobson "tumbled from a bathroom counter into an empty tub." Read more...
OKINAWA, Japan — Students at Kubasaki High School listened to a harrowing story of childhood abuse and one woman’s miraculous ability to overcome repeated trauma during her visit to the school on October 26. Life development coach Johnnetta McSwain delivered a speech that deeply moved students in the audience. Two of those students, Taylor Welch and Jessica Meno, wrote an article describing their experience. DoDEA Okinawa District is pleased to share their work, titled “Will Triumphs Over All.” Read more...
Ignore the "Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly admitted into Pyschiatric ward" headlines, as The Kelly Filehost continues to receive online rebuke for saying Slate writer Alisha Harris is wrong to want a black Santa Claus. The latest rebuke for the news show anchor comes in the form of satire masquerading as news according to a Dec. 22 Epoch Times report. But it appears to be just another way to embarrass the outspoken personality.
By Sabbaye McGriff
In a Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) documentary titled “The Road Beyond Abuse,”which aired in April 2009, McSwain – a 2006 KSU graduate – credits her alma mater with rescuing her and restoring her faith in humanity. Read more...
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