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Pioneer Press columnist tells personal story of child abuse - Minnesota (video)

"Ruben Rosario has been using the printed word to tell the stories of Minnesotans for more than 20 years in his column in the Pioneer Press newspaper, but on Sunday he told his own story in a front page column.

"He began to sexually abuse me, of course, when nobody was present, after he picked me up from school sometimes." Rosario told Kare11's Allen Costantini that the abuser was his 15-year-old cousin. "You are 7-years-old. It was painful. It was icky, as I mentioned in the column, but you do not know what has happened to you."...

"The rest of the family did not understand why Rosario did not rally around his cousin's illness, did not attend his wake, nor his funeral. They did not understand what had happened so many years earlier....

"Rosario said he has been humbled by the response to his Sunday column.

"I have had over 100 emails. I would say most of them are people who either have been abused themselves as children or have family members who have been abused. My hope and my reason for writing the column is not only to get it off my chest, but by doing that, publicize an issue that is still a little bit in the closet...."

http://www.kare11.com/news/article/1014353/391/Journalist-tells-personal-story-of-child-abuse-

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