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Child sexual abuse is a national epidemic. One out of four girls and one of six boys are sexually abused by their 18th birthday.
There are between 100,000 and 300,000 commercially, sexually exploited children in the United States.
Almost one out of five children (19%) have been solicited online for sexual purposes.

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  • Who We Are
    Silent Tears: Giving a Voice to Child Sexual Abuse, is a private-public partnership that identifies prospective, quantifiable areas of change in states’ judicial, legislative, law enforcement, business, education, health care and faith-based communities.This unique holistic template focuses on system wide change created from data provided by front line professionals for state specific, quantifiable and measurable change.
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  • What We Do
    Silent Tears focuses on three core competencies: Programs, Public affairs and Public Awareness. Silent Tears has initiated programs nationwide and is currently underway in multiple states – at varying levels – the first state being South Carolina.
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  • Challenge
    AMERICAN IDOL JUDGE, SINGER, SONGWRITER KARA DIOGUARDI, IS HEIGHTENING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE THROUGH SILENT TEARS WITH HER SONG, “I AM ME”. IT IS NOW THE CENTERPIECE OF A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN. THE “I AM ME CHALLENGE” IS A LYRIC CHALLENGE TO KARA’S UNFINISHED SONG. THE PERSON CHALLENGED UPLOADS THEIR RENDITION ONLINE. IF THE PERSON CHALLENGED CANNOT SING OR WRITE THE STANZA AND BRIDGE, THEY ARE ASKED TO MAKE A DONATION AND PASS THE CHALLENGE ON
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