Ayala: Texas needs to catch up to the neuroscience of delayed disclosure in child sexual abuse cases
Every group imaginable participates in a Capitol Day. Civil rights advocates, educators, unionists, nurses, hairdressers, cities and counties, you name it, every agenda gets its day.
Their purpose is to bring attention to bills under consideration by the Texas Legislature.
Sometimes they get news coverage, but mostly they get a chance to meet with specific legislators to press their agendas.
These ordinary events aren’t as easy for survivors of child sexual abuse, even those who are now adults.
It’s difficult to come forward and reporting such crimes is still rare, especially for those victimized by members of the clergy.
It can take years, even decades, for them to talk about it.
That any victims of child sexual abuse are gathering in front of the Capitol next week is a minor miracle.
But a group of Texans, including a San Antonio contingent of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests,…
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