Child Sexual Abuse

Newsmaker of the Year-A look back at 2010

Yesterday it was announced on the front page of the Daily Herald and ABC 7 News that I received the most votes making me Daily Herald’s newsmaker of the year. Click on the links above to read/watch the story. I got the call a week ago today and was shocked. I really thought American Idol […]


Before there was Erin Merryn

Erin Merryn was my first and middle name for the first two months of my life on my birth certificate Erin Merryn is crossed out and written above it is Erin Elizabeth. Everyone pronounced it wrong so my parents changed it after 2 months. I took it back as a pen name and now listen […]


I thought forgiveness was the hardest stage

What does it feel like to accomplish what you go after? It feels pretty amazing but then again I had no doubt I could accomplish Erin’s law. Sunday I appeared on the front page of the Daily Herald, two weeks earlier I was on the front page of the Daily Herald. Monday the entire Editorial […]


Letter to the Governor of Illinois

11 months ago I wrote a letter to the Governor of Illinois about Erin’s law. Erin’s law now sits on his desk a signature away from my goal! Check out the story in tomorrow’s Daily Herald (Chicago paper) Chicago Tribune will be covering Erin’s law this week also. Link below. Law Pushed by Local Woman […]



Waiting For That Day

I was weeks shy of seven When my innocence was taken to Heaven That day I went through Hell And I didn’t know how to tell. If you witnessed what I saw You would support Erin’s Law. Having to face that six in a half year old Fifteen years later telling her you told. Entering […]


Warning: May Trigger Many Please Read with Caution

On a cold January 1992 day I went to my friends to play. Toys scattered the floor As he walked in and closed the door. He locked anyone from coming in From allowing the outside to see his sin. Forcing a little girl to the bed I trembled at what he said. “I will tie […]


Your Worst Enemy

Although I have traveled down dark roads at a very young age, I have come as far as I have because I am not alone. God has been holding my hand through it all. When I could not find my way through darkness, He carried me. When I cried myself to sleep, He rocked me […]


Letter from Chief of Police Dixon, Illinois

I spoke on Wed February 10th at a conference in Dixon, Illinois for the Dixon Children Advocacy Center. There I shared like I have so many times before thousands of people what happened behind closed doors to me as a child. Unlike any presentation I have given I presented “Erin’s Law” to the audience. I […]



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