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Mark Douglass JD
Mark Douglass Quick Facts
Main Areas: Writing and speaking about overcoming life's adversities.Career Focus: Author, Speaker, and Attorney
Mark Douglass is an inspirational public speaker who speaks about overcoming adversity. His memoir, Flashbacks of Abuse: How a machine gun toting sociopath freed me from the chains of my childhood is available for sale at www.FlashbacksOfAbuse.com. It is a page turner of a book which tells how he and his then-twelve-year-old daughter narrowly escaped being murdered when they stumbled into the middle of a gangland kidnapping while traveling in Europe. This traumatic event forced Mr. Douglass to re-evaluate his traumatic childhood and finally resolve many lingering issues.
He is survivor of childhood sexual abuse who in 1984 was the first adult male victim of childhood sexual abuse in the nation to successfully sue for his injuries despite the obstacle presented by the statute of limitations. The suit resulted in a 1988 public trial and a $1.27 million jury verdict against his abuser. He has appeared on several Minneapolis/St. Paul TV stations, numerous radio stations, and on the nationally syndicated, The Sally Jesse Raphael Show. In May, 1984, he and his childhood abuse history were the lead story of an Emmy award winning ground-breaking television news series about childhood sexual abuse. In 1989, he helped change the Minnesota statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse suits to allow for "delayed discovery" of injuries. He practiced law in Minnesota for over twenty-five years.
He is a graduate of Minneapolis West High School, Harvard University, and Hamline University School of Law.
He and his wife of thirty years live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Mark Douglass speaks professionally before law enforcement, medical, and psychological associations, colleges and universities, rape and sexual abuse survivor groups, churches, and other organizations about male sexual abuse, sexual predators, his own experience as a childhood victim of sexual predation, and overcoming life's adversities.
