Hello everyone! Hi. 

I am the youngest daughter of Dawn Jackson, a formerly incarcerated individual at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility. 

I update this petition to begin asking for community support with my own voice in leaving behind dysfunctional family members and living away from their abusive ways in a different state.

At the beginning of January 2025, an older relative - specifically my cousin/brother - has made it known to me that they feel inappropriately about me. When this happened, I naively shrugged it off as this person expressing their frustrations with dealing with their own traumas... I thought me and this person were getting closer, properly bonding, until they began to double down by verbally expressing this to me again in April. then May. Then June. Then July. 

I've lost count with how many times this person has expressed this harmful, triggering, and traumatic thought to me. As a survivor of SA/COCSA myself, it began to dawn on me that keeping my voice quiet in order to protect this person was placing me back into a state of hopelessness and guilt that I grappled with as a kid, beginning roughly at the age of 7-8. 

I couldn't fail my inner child like that again, so now, I am speaking up. Letting myself be heard. And hoping to connect with other likeminded individuals on the issue of generational curses, toxicity, and familial abuse.

Me being silent would've only allowed this destructive cycle to pass down and continue on to future generations, and I wholeheartedly refuse to remain unheard on this. I've advocated for others, even my own mother, and now it is time that I advocate for myself. Protect myself. and Love myself.

I'm not sure how others in my family see this issue as some still wrap their arms around this mentally unsettled person, but I can't focus on their complicity. But I do know one person has grilled me unfairly for confronting this person, instead of asking this person why they'd see their baby sister this way. Or why they felt it was okay to say. 

I still love this person, don't get me wrong. But love is not enough to protect their predatory ways. 

Please, please, please support me in reaching a safe environment away from this...if you can, sharing my story helps me so much better than you know! I am eternally grateful to all those who hear me, see me, and more. Bless you. Thank you again for taking the time to view this issue and understand... I am essentially alone in this, and anything, truly everything, is valued from the bottom of my heart. 

Take care!