Inuit sexual predators must stop their abuse

It is well-known that Inuit men are big-time sexual predators.

For many hundreds of years, you have preyed upon your little girls and women. In many cases, you have raped your own daughters at a very young age. You have even raped babies and elderly women.

I am one of these Inuit women that have been abused over and over and over. It all started when I was a little kid, not old enough to understand what was going on.

I have been raped by my stepfather, my biological grandfather, one of my biological brothers, two of my step-brothers and my uncle on my mother’s side for many years.

I tried telling people about the pain, but no one would listen to what I was telling them about what was happening to me.

Once, when one of my aunts believed me, she told me to say nothing, because the person who raped me was highly respected in the community.

Today, I am very damaged by all the abuse that Inuit men close to me have caused me. I am able now to speak to other Inuit women who have been into the same kind of abuse. It appears to me that to be invaded by these predators was silently accepted.

I am finding out that many, many Inuit women were in this same situation, even in my mother’s and father’s time, and I know that it has been happening a lot longer. Alcohol and drugs have intensified these abuses in more recent times. I know that these abuses are still happening in our communities today.

I recently found out that her own uncle, my own adopted brother, raped my own daughter.

I want this abuse to stop. You have caused us women too much pain.

I encourage other women to bring their story out into the open for all to see the truth of our lives.

Anonymous
Kuujjuaq