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Charlotte Observer

Fort Mill doctor says he was sexually abused as a child

By Elizabeth Leland
eleland@charlotteobserver.com

Posted: Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013

Dr. Jason Peck, a psychiatrist and sleep expert, is doing what not so long ago would have been unthinkable for a man who claims he was sexually abused as a child:

Peck is speaking out.

So much stigma is attached to child molestation that men who bring charges often don’t want anyone to know their names. “From the day it happened, I’ve tried very hard to push away the dark, terrifying, and sickening memories fearing what would happen to me or my family if I spoke out,” said Peck, now 45. …

For a man to speak out candidly would have been unthinkable not that long ago, said psychologist Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea, co-director of Presbyterian Psychological Services and a nationally-recognized authority on sexual abuse….