'There’s an expiration date on accountability but no expiration date on trauma,' Lanier Isom writes in a guest opinion piece arguing in favor of the Justice for Child Sex Abuse Victims Act, likely to be considered in the Alabama Legislature in 2023.
Advocates and child sex abuse survivors gather on the Capitol steps for a statute of limitations rally. They are asking the Senate to immediately bring House Bill 951 to the Senate floor for a vote. September 20, 2021. Dan Gleiter | [email protected] were our coaches, teachers, Boy Scout leaders, preachers, future politicians. You were neighbors, family friends, family members, always charming and trusted with our care.
We were good students and bad students. Star athletes and musicians. Geeks and outcasts. Awkward and immature. Confused and scared and captivated, we were vulnerable and unsupervised. We thought we could handle our secret and hide our shame. Some of us spoke up at the time. Some of us have only spoken up recently. Some of us never have and never will. We have all suffered in silence. We have all blamed ourselves.
The schools and organizations and churches knew what the predators were doing when parents complained, and terrified children asked for help. Headmasters, scoutmasters, and bishops passed the trash, covered up this scandal. The men in charge did not protect us. The women in charge became complicit. No one went to the police. The institutions circled the wagons, protected the bottom line, and buried the truth. They crippled an entire generation of women and men.
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