She is an activist against child sexual abuse as well as the founder of Erin's Law, which requires public schools to teach children personal body safety in order to prevent child sexual abuse.
She has appeared on Oprah, Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, TLC documentary Breaking the Silence, CBS This Morning, Katie Couric, Tamron Hall, 700 Club, and over 200 local media stations.
[2] The family pressed charges, and the cousin eventually confessed to three counts of child sexual abuse.
[3] She graduated from Schaumburg High School in 2004[4] and earned a Bachelor of Social Work from Western Illinois University in 2008.
[7] She published her diary detailing her cousin's abuse and her own recovery, relapse and reconciliation in book form as Stolen Innocence in 2005.
[8] In November 2009, she published a second book, Living For Today, discussing earlier abuse by her neighbor.