Cerebral Palsy

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Now in her mid-20s, Sara said she is shy and nervous around the opposite sex and does not see herself being able to get married and have children.

But that has nothing to do with her disorder or heart condition.

From ages 10 to 17, Sara was sexually assaulted by her father.

She is one of Yuma County's victims of child abuse and one of many who have been recognized during April, National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

"I want to, but I don't see it," she said of marrying.

"Boyfriends, yeah, but marriage, I doubt ...

I don't have trust in anybody." But Sara is different.

Unlike most victims, she reported the abuse, according to Diane Umphress, executive director of Amberly's Place.

According to Umphress, the local crisis victim center has seen a slight increase in physical abuse of children during the first three months of 2007 compared with 2006.

Amberly's Place helped 315 child victims of sexual abuse in 2006 and 41 child victims of physical abuse.

She attributes the rise to education creating a higher public awareness about reporting abuse.

Overall, Amberly's served 1,500 child and adult victims in 2006, a 25 percent increase in total crimes from 2005, according to Umphress.

The organization helped Sara when she reported the abuse.

Sara said she is willing to tell her story...

Picture: Nasar T KStaff ReporterAchieving human rights for disabled people is a great endeavour which crosses national boundaries and continents, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife, Cherie Booth, said yesterday.Booth, the co-chair of Shafallah Center’s Second Annual International Forum on Children with Special Needs, was delivering the keynote address.

Patron of British disability organisation Scope, Booth began by stating that the Forum had rightly focused on the recent and historic UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and in particular Article 8 on ‘Raising Public Awareness.’She observed that the sessions during the conference has explored how perceptions of disability were formed and transformed through media, education and t...