"Judging Me" - a memoir from the Honorable Mary Elizabeth Bullock by Bill Murray One of our newer NAASCA family members, Judge Mary Elizabeth Bullock, has written a just-published memoir, one of the most honest and revealing you'll ever read on the issues of child abuse and trauma. Below you'll find a book review I recently wrote on "Juding Me" along with the link to get the memoir at AMAZON. Judge Bullock also appeared recently as a special guest on our "Stop Child Abuse Now" talk show. Here's the description and direct link to the "on-demand" version of her episode. Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 720 -- special guest Judge Mary Elizabeth Bullock Tonight's special guest is Judge Mary Elizabeth Bullock from San Diego, abuse survivor and author of the new book, "Judging Me." Judge Bullock knows what it is to crouch in the darkness, locked in a closet, listening for the footsteps of the man who is coming to torment her. She spent much of her childhood in pain, fear and darkness, a prisoner of someone who should have been her protector. But she also knows the freedom she has won and the happiness of achieving success as an attorney and then as a federal civil rights judge. Best of all, she knows the satisfaction of helping others, with her work in advocacy as well as through this memoir of familial childhood sexual abuse for ten plus years. Judge Bullock knows that childhood sexual abuse victimizes one in six young boys and one in every four little girls. Some victims will not even remember the crimes perpetrated against them, crimes that may affect their capacity to love freely and live a responsible life. Her book was written for the victims, and also for the people who love them and want desperately to understand. Her memoir takes the readers from a childhood of horrific sexual abuse, torture and the sale of a small child to predators for their own sexual perversions to a life that has been a triumph over the past. In "Judging Me," a survivor offers hope and understanding to anyone willing to receive it. Mary Elizabeth Bullock has been a sought-after trial litigator, a respected professor of business law, and a federal civil rights judge. Dedicated to helping others, she has made herself into a formidable woman, with a vital story to tell.

"Judging Me" book review

by Bill Murray

The raw, honest, no-holds-barred Judging Me , and its frank revelations of severe child abuse and trauma, will shock some people and astonish others, but no one will be left unimpressed. Few will suspect how Honorable Mary Elizabeth Bullock's inspiring memoir describes a hard-won life of achievement.

In the face of overwhelming adversity, Bullock (who's blind and has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus) rose above the depravity of a severely abused and traumatized childhood to make her name as an experienced trial litigator, respected business law professor, and federal civil rights judge.

But Judging Me is far more than a tell-all expose. Bullock delivers a studied explanation and of the many issues of child abuse and trauma, and shares her deep understanding of how these experiences effect a person both during childhood and for decades beyond.

In Judging Me the dark suits and proverbial black robes are off. Naked to her readers, Bullock paints a vivid picture of how she suffered, exposed to the rest of her family as a helpless child, from her father's sexual abuse for ten years. She was beaten and molested physically, and psychologically traumatized in unbearable ways. Perhaps worst of all, her father taught her to believe that this evil was her own fault.

As a young woman, Bullock is driven to succeed, and rises to a position of power and influence many would envy. But the ghosts of her childhood percolate inside her, continuously challenging her sense of self-worth, and sabotaging her relationships.