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The Times-Picayune
Part 1: To New Bethany and back: One woman’s journey to report the man she says sexually abused her
By Rebecca Catalanello, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on April 03, 2014
In late December of 1991, a 20-year-old woman sat down in a room with a cassette recorder and two other women more than twice her age.
Tell us everything that happened, one of the older women said. Then she pressed a button to record.
Shannon Scott says she did as she was told. In five years living at New Bethany Home for Girls in Arcadia, La., that was one thing she knew to do.
Three days later, she says, one of the women handed Scott a plane ticket, directed her to a car with keys in it and instructed her to drive herself to the airport where she would board a plane back home — far away from this place where she had lived since she was 15 years old.
The Associated Press reported a few days later, on Jan. 8, 1992, that New Bethany had closed. After years of legal entanglement with state and local authorities, the school had decided to send all the residents home.
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