MEADVILLE (PA)
Meadville Tribune
November 12, 2018
By Bruce Harlan
We live in tough times. Whether you’re watching TV, reading the newspaper or looking at your smart phone, the news is all around us and it’s usually the same thing: more examples of mass shootings and acts of terrorism, more reports of destructive weather, more divisive stories involving politics and more allegations of sexual violence.
In the last 12 months, consider all of the stories about sexual violence making headlines: Bill Cosby’s trial and conviction for three counts of sexual assault; Dr. Larry Nassar’s guilty plea for abusing hundreds of young women who attended sports camps at Michigan State University; the Pennsylvania grand jury’s report on six Catholic dioceses where more than 300 members of the clergy were named in connection to sex crimes against children; and, of course, the #MeToo movement that spread virally on social media to help demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment.
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