Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges says she was victim of childhood sex abuse

Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges said Monday she is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and that she is breaking her silence so that other abuse survivors know they are not alone.

“I was abused by adults unrelated to me for many years, starting when I was eight years old,” Hodges wrote on Facebook. “My family did not know. I believed — was threatened into believing — that the slightest indication that anything was amiss would jeopardize the safety of everyone and everything I loved. No one knew until I told them early in my sobriety — not my friends, not my family.”

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