CANADA
Kamloops Daily News

April 2, 2012

By Michele Young
Daily News Staff Reporter

Journalist Linden MacIntyre has known people whose lives were left in shards from sexual abuse. He has reported on it, come from a community affected by it and talked to the victims of it.

And the veteran CBC reporter has written two fictitious books dealing with the dynamics and after effects of sexual abuse.

On Monday morning, MacIntyre — a self-confessed storyteller from childhood — explained his theories as to why sex abuse is not openly talked about in society. His presentation was the third Barrett Lecture on Child, Family and Community Welfare held at Thompson Rivers University.

He offered the audience of about 200 people gathered in the Irving Barber Centre ideas and insights he has gathered from 50 years of reporting, researching and writing.

Much of what he discussed was tackled in…