Summary Of Diary Of A Ghetto Priest, The Rape Of Louisa

In a Jamaica Gleaner Article entitle, “Diary of a ghetto priest, The Rape of Louisa,” the story is told of this young girl named Louisa who is attends the community church and resides in the community with her parents and eight other brothers and sisters. According to the writer the family was poor and resided in a one room apartment in the urban or otherwise called inner City community in Kingston. Louisa and her mother were very involved in the church and enjoyed serving other members of the community where they rendered service by helping the indigent to prepare for church or assisting the homeless children at the Good Shepherd Home. Upon seeing the living condition of the family the church assisted them by adding one room to the one existing but it was not long before Rosemary, Louisa mother took in a crippled man off the street who was unable to care for himself which caused them to relocate with her family into the one room apartment. According to the priest they were poor but happy, and their happiness grew when Louisa the first child at the age of seventeen received a job at a guard company and started taking home a salary of four thousand two hundred dollars ($4200.00) per month. Louisa worked and contributed financially along with her father and younger brother to make life easier for the family. Louisa was pretty and the boys with whom she grew up wanted to “break her in”. They started touching her when she passed, asked her to spend a little time with them, but she remained calm, smiled and went from work to home according to the writer. He stated that none of the girls in that community over the age of fourteen years were allowed to be virgins, thus Louisa was verbally abused daily by these young men who threa...

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... sexual assault impacts all victims in similar areas such as sexuality, trust, interpersonal relationships, and self-concept, individuals’ specific struggles in these areas may vary.
Cultural background can also influence the roles that community and the social service system play in an individual’s recovery. Some people, for instance, particularly people of color, may feel reluctant to ask for help from predominantly white social service agencies, and turn instead to sources of support within their own community Eastern CASA, (2014). The three stage Intervention process recommended by Herman (1997) can and has been successfully used in the healing process for females in Jamaica who has been exposed to sexual abuse and developed posttraumatic stress disorder. There is no doubt that it is culturally sensitive to be used in Jamaica because of the nature of them.