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Where Are They Now? Erin Merryn?
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Erin Merryn Fights for Law to Help Child Sexual Assault Victims
(People Magazine) – Erin Merryn was just six years old when she was sexually abused by a male neighbor. She was too scared to tell anyone. “He kept telling me, ‘No one will believe you,’ ” says Merryn, 28, of Schaumburg, Ill. The abuse didn’t stop until her family moved when she was 8 ½ […]
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Advocate pitches ‘Erin’s Law’ on sex-abuse education
JACKSON Miss (USA TODAY) — A woman who was sexually abused as a child is on a 50-state mission to urge lawmakers to make education about child sex abuse part of schools’ curriculum. For 2½ years beginning at age 6, a neighbor raped Erin Merryn, now 27, of Schaumburg, Ill. A teenage cousin started molesting […]
Erin’s Law to mandate sexual abuse curriculum in Illinois public schools
EVANSTON IN (The Daily Northwestern) – Three years ago, Erin Merryn quit her job to try to pass a law that legislators told her no one would touch: child sexual assault. Today, Erin’s Law has been passed in five states and is spreading quickly around the county. Gov. Pat Quinn signed House Bill 6193, or Erin’s Law, […]
Lawmakers push for sexual abuse education as senator reveals past abuse
WLOX.com – The News for South Mississippi When Erin Merryn was 6 years old, she never thought what happened to her then, would bring her to the Mississippi. “I used to carry so much shame about this. I never wanted to talk about it. It was a dirty uncomfortable topic,” said Merryn. Until age eight, […]
A January day in 1992
I had no idea what I was in for that January day 21 years ago. The day I thought he was going to kill me. I looked just like this weeks shy of my 7th birthday playing with two dolls when I looked up and there he was. Fear consumed me. I clutched the […]
What are you waiting for?
Erin Merryn is on a tireless crusade to get Erin’s Law passed in all 50 states. Support her mission and get this video seen by more then 1 million viewers. Bring awareness to childhood sexual abuse. Erin Merryn is the author of Stolen Innocence and Living for Today and the force behind Erin’s Law being […]
Goodbye 2012 Hello 2013
It has been such an amazing year and I wouldn’t want to say goodbye to 2012 unless 2013 is going to be just as exciting.In 2012 I became an aunt, was named Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year and was honored in Carnegie Hall in front of 3,000 people and mingled with celebrities all night long, […]