Staff writer
Adults who have been sexually abused as children may not be able to see the road to recovery, but author Jun Hozumi says her own experiences are proof that victims can free themselves from the past and start a new life.
Hozumi, her pen name, won court approval in March 1997 to change her name in order to cut herself off from the past. It was the first time a court approved a name change for the sake of mitigating the aftereffects of child abuse. She was sexually abused by her brother when she was in elementary school.