By Roszalia Ellen
Publisher: Young Lions Seminars
ISBN: 978-0979500619
Pages: 84
Published: January 20, 2011

A Crushed Rose is a true story. A beautiful child was robbed of her youth. Her voice was muted, spirit crushed, and body violated. Her eyes showed fear, sadness, and depression; people labeled her shy. She whispered her story to a few adults; they smiled and pretended not to understand. Incest is a sexual union between persons who are so closely related that their marriage is illegal or forbidden by custom. An informed community and enlightened culture is obligated to expose crimes against children. As an adult, she engaged in a six-year war to save her daughter from being put to death by the state of Mississippi. That fight gave her strength to battle for her health and peace of mind. She ended her fight with God and turned on the real enemy. She prevailed with a clear message to openly fight all forms of sexual violence against children, including the most horrendous depravity-incest.

About The Author

Roszalia Ellen is a child prodigy. At the age of two she exhibited an extraordinary gift for music. Roszalia would run her fingers across the piano and she could play any tune that she heard. As a train thundered down the tracks and the engineer pulled the whistle, she would call it out: "That is a low baritone in the key of F." She became a church musician at the age of nine, and to this day in 2011 she plays piano for a local church. She attended Jackson State University in Mississippi. Once, during an audition, while facing the wall, she named all eighty-eight keys on the piano, as her instructor played them. She is also a singer, and has been compared favorably to the Queen of Soul, Ms. Aretha Franklin. Before, during, and after the reign of terror, Roszalia Ellen loved music.