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Too Much Love is Not Enough: Talking About Child Sexual Abuse

Photo Courtesy of Rosenna Bakari
Rosenna Bakari

This program originally aired on 4-18-18.

Imagine the scene at drop-off at an elementary school, all those children smiling laughing. Statistics tell us that one in every 10 of those children in the United States will be sexually abused before they turn 18. 

During this hour of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe talks with Rosenna Bakarai about her new book Too Much Love is Not Enough: A Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse." She's the founder of a support network for adult survivors called Talking Treesand has been speaking out about how to better support victims of incest for over a decade. 

Torri Hilton, who is a forensic interviewer at Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City, and Andy Kopsa, who is an investigative reporter, also joins the conversation.

Lindsey Moon served as IPR's Senior Digital Producer - Music and the Executive Producer of IPR Studio One's All Access program. Moon started as a talk show producer with Iowa Public Radio in May of 2014. She came to IPR by way of Illinois Public Media, an NPR/PBS dual licensee in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Wisconsin Public Radio, where she worked as a producer and a general assignment reporter.
Charity Nebbe is the host of IPR's Talk of Iowa