NEW YORK
Forbes
Neal Rodriguez, Contributor
A lone tear falls from my eye. Tell me G-d, How many times can one die? – Debbie Teller
A sexual assault survivor is using her blog to expose sexual assaults in her community and elsewhere. She blogs by the pseudonym, Debbie Teller. The graphic and specific way that she exposes the horrors of being abused in a secretive and closed community on her website, has helped her secure a television interview on NY1; and the site welcomed as much as 13,000 unique readers in a day. Debbie now writes that it is read by 3,000 people a day.
Debbie was molested by her father at the age of five. The abuse continued until she was 10. Her blog narrates the graphic tale of a time when Debbie was forced to perform oral sex by her father, while she thought it was all a dream. …
“There was no one for me to ask, so I went to this Rabbi,” Debbie said. “I said to him, ‘What do you think I should do?’ and he said, ‘Well, did he touch you?’ He couldn’t even say the words, ‘Did you have sex?’ or ‘Did he rape you?’ or anything, he said, ‘Did he touch you?’ and I said, ‘Yes.’ ‘Well, then you have to get married.’ ”
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