Reflections Magazine Issue #71 - Spring 2010 | Page 9

Feature Article

By Doug Goodnough

Siena Success
Story
Gregg Milligan ’85
Overcomes Abuse,
Illiteracy to Become
Productive Member
of Society

G

regg Milligan ’85 is the exception,

not the rule.
The 46-year-old endured a childhood
that could only be described as horrific.
Beginning at age 4, he suffered through
physical, emotional, psychological and
sexual abuse from the most unlikely
person—his own mother.
For the next seven years, his mother,
an alcoholic-turned-prostitute, would
beat him regularly, along with having
an incestuous sexual relationship with
him. To make matters worse, the men
who would visit her home would also
sexually abuse him, he said.
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