"Sexual abuse is damaging no matter how the victim's body is violated," stated Dan Allender in an article published by Family Life. Trauma associated with abuse can be related to many factors including the relationship with the perpetrator, the severity of the intrusion, use of violence, age of the perpetrator and the duration of abuse. Allender writes that "in every case of abuse, the dignity and beauty of the soul has been violated. Therefore, damage will be present whether one has been struck by a Mack truck traveling fifty miles per hour, or 'merely' hit by a tricycle rolling at the same speed."
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