Scott Brown Shares Personal Abuse Story

Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) shared his personal story of abuse in a keynote address Saturday night at a fund-raiser in Nashua for the Child Advocacy Center of Hillsborough County.

Brown talked about how he was abused at a summer camp when he was a child and threatened by his abuser to never tell anyone. He praised the Child Advocacy Center for its work to provide victims with a voice and a path toward healing. Brown first revealed in 2011 that he had been sexually abused by a counselor and physically abused by a step father. 

Brown, who has a second home in Rye, N.H., has said he's not ruling anything out in terms of running a campaign in New Hampshire, possibly against U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). In his remarks May 4, Brown even took a dig at New Hampshire's senior senator, according to the Union Leader.

Dan Monfried, board president of the Granite State Children's Alliance, the parent of the Hillsborough charity, called Brown an inspirational speaker.

"Our mission is to put young victims of abuse on a path to healing, and Scott Brown is proof that with care and nurturing these children can go on to achieve great things," Monfried said in a press release. 

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