As cells (neurons) secret chemicals to shape or reshape how they appear physically and express themselves. In this compromised state, the child's developing brain adapts naturally in order to cope. Premature exposure is liable to compromise the child's neurobiology and alter his or her ability to develop this competency. Requiring an average of sixteen years to fully develop, it is well appreciated in the science literature that the brain cannot be ready to competently process sensuality and the implications of sexual activity before then. This consequence is understood in terms of how the organ of our mental processes - the brain - develops and works. In that crude sense, sexual contact with a child before maturation is harmful, because it bears the immediate consequence of impacting the child's mental development. This is the natural state of a child's sense of sensuality before sexual maturation occurs when the brain develops fully, upward of year sixteen in the average child. In our advanced society, betrayal is appreciated from the sense of innocence, which connotes purity, or a lack of corruption thereof. In this task, I do not offer judgement for the experience of sexual violation, but in my effort I shall offer a case study to shed light on the incidence of betrayed innocence within the wider contexts of family, community and society. In this essay, I offer an insight into the ruinous consequences that these pervasive experiences wreck on the bodies, minds, and souls of survivors and in the very gut of our society. Pothoven's biography echoes the troubling experiences of betrayed innocence and sexual violation that transcend cultures far and wide. Suggestions she lamented in saying 'I can’t wait that long.' On Sunday, June 2nd, Noa rested in peace. She was encouraged to complete a trauma treatment and wait until her brain was more fully developed. At age sixteen, unbeknownst to her family, she solicited end-of-life at a regulated clinic, about which she wrote 'They think I’m too young to die'. Experiences she described as 'degrading and humiliating'. Her pain manifested itself in traumatic stress, depression, and eating disorders for which she had intensive therapy and spent time in psychiatric hospitals. She wrote, 'My house has been broken into, my body, that can never be undone. One year later she was again similarly assaulted, and, at the age of fourteen, two men raped her. Beginning at the age of eleven, when she was sexually assaulted at a school party. Pothoven's acclaimed autobiography - Winnen of Leren (Winning or Learning) - chronicles her anguish. I have quit eating and drinking for a while now, and - after many discussions and evaluations - it was decided to let me go because my suffering is unbearable’. In her last post, she intimated, ‘after years of battling and fighting, I am drained. On May 25th 2019, seventeen-year-old author Noa Pothoven of The Netherlands said byes to her followers on social media, she would be dead in ten days.
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