25 Investigates finds state laws enable secrecy over sexual abuse in Mass. public schools
A woman says she endured years of sexual abuse at a southeastern Massachusetts school starting when she was just 11 years old.
“I don’t even want to think about the hours I’ve spent in therapy and medications I’ve taken and tried,” she said. “And just to try to have a normal life.”
25 Investigates agreed to protect her identity as a survivor of sexual abuse.
“One of the administrators at the school started paying a lot of attention to me,” she said.
“It felt nice. It felt special.”
“It was picking me out of the hallway to tell me I looked nice or telling me I did really well on an exam or at a game.”
She says the administrator started pulling her out of the cafeteria at lunchtime to have lunch in his office with him.
“And that seemed a little weird, but it wasn’t weird enough for me…
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