The first instance of sexual abuse recounted in “10,000 Hills: A Little Boy’s Journey,” is detailed, graphic, and emotionally raw. The episode illustrates the tone of the entire book, written and recently self-published by Del. C.T. Wilson, a Democrat from Charles County.
The book recounts the years of abuse Wilson suffered both in the foster care system as well as after he was adopted, and it is painfully forthright. For Wilson, this honesty came at a price.
“Writing the book was far from cathartic,” he said. “It was probably one of the worst experiences of my life — and that’s including war. I had done a very good job of segmenting my memories, and basically forgetting. A lot of things I had forgotten until I started digging.”
Looking at Wilson now, it is hard to imagine him undergoing such a struggle. He is, to all appearances, an ordinary person living a fairly successful life.
Wilson is an Army veteran, a lawyer who helped found the Community Prosecution Unit of the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney’s Office, and the first black delegate elected in Charles County. He has a wife and three children.
Suffering pushed to success
Paradoxically enough, it is much of what Wilson suffered in his childhood that has pushed him to become the successful individual he is today.
“I couldn’t say that I would take away any one part of it because all that is wh
