Monrovia – Brenda Brewer Moore delves into a painful chapter of her childhood which is the subject of a powerful new movie, Stolen Childhood.
The story is based on the true story of a survivor of sexual abuse, who at the age of 8 was sexually molested by a member of her family household.
The movie goes on to capture real-life experiences of several Liberian women who have had to deal with domestic violence, rape and touches on everyday sensitive issues that affect many homes across Liberia.
Brenda, who is the founder and director of the Kids Engagement Education Project recently blogged: “The overflowing memory came rushing back as I looked at my eight years old. And rather than the joyful and celebratory moment now presented, I slipped to my past. No less than thirty years later, the stinging image was as real as today. Shelved in an inner recess of my mind, the memory just seemed to burst to the fore. As I looked at my daughter, I saw me being molested and abused. I saw my innocence taken. I saw my trust broken. I saw my mind and body violated. I had shelved it. But I have been unable to forget it.”
The movie developed and produced by Liberians in an effort to elevate the conversations around Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) with a cultural influence and aims to encourage parents, children and the country at large to talk more about the unspoken menace of sexual abuse and to help stop it.
Produced by Good Dreams movie production with the support of the Kids Educational Engagement Project (KEEP ) and the European Union of Liberia, Stolen Childhood will be screened in several communities across Liberia as well as in schools.