Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine July 2019 | Page 105

Julie Mansfield Julie’s Maybe God was Busy unveils her life as a child growing up in Jamaica, enduring years of sexual abuse by family members and others in society in whom trust was placed. Her book “. . .questions the complicity of those who know, but accept the abuse as ‘family business’, refusing to take steps to protect the victims . . . ” Julie now resides in Miami, Florida and is the founder of Give Me Dignity, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to providing assistance to thousands of girls and boys in Jamaica who are victims of sexual abuse. Maybe God Was Busy is available on Amazon.com, in both Kindle and hard copy.