ChildLink’s Kean Chase on battling to heal the scars of abused children

Kean Chase

Kean Chase has dedicated all of her adult life to fighting for the rights of children, especially those who are abused in horrific ways. And while it is a fight she and all the others in this army will not win in the near future, it is one that she will continue to battle if it means helping one child to be healed.

Month after month, day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute Chase hears and sees case after case of abuse being perpetuated on hapless children. And while that might be enough for another person to switch gears, for Chase it only means that she has to keep fighting. But she is quick to admit that it is a fight she cannot continue for the rest of her life. When she eventually has her own family, she will no longer be able to spend an entire afternoon listening to the mother of an abused child who just wants a hearing.

For her, the bad days come when she knows that it would take “a signature or just a phone call to make a difference in someone’s life and for some reason that official would delay or just would not do it. So if you are going to find me upset, it is because some major stakeholder who has the