UNITED STATES
Justia Verdict
Marci A. Hamilton
This is the era of children’s liberation from tyrannical treatment. Child-sex-abuse victims have been coming out of the woodwork, and demanding the justice that has been long delayed, but truly owed. First, the Roman Catholic Church was on center stage, but now it has had to make room for virtually every other religious organization, including the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Orthodox Jews, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In each institution, pedophiles were harbored. Religious groups are not alone, of course, with more recent additions to this list of shame including the Boy Scouts; prep schools like Horace Mann, Poly Prep, the Landmark School, the Brooks School, and Deerfield Academy; and, of course, Penn State.
On the heels of these institutions’ scandals, which are finally in the spotlight, the vast swath of abuse that occurs in homes across the country is now beginning to emerge into public view. We have let our children down in every scenario, and, sadly, even the family courts too often hand children right back to the very person who abused them. We have much to do. Today, though, I will focus on abuse in sports.
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