Click here to read: “Humiliation, Shame and Fear” by Andrew Rosenthal from The New York Times on June 11, 2012.
On this first day of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse trial, the prosecutor, Joseph McGettigan, put the following words up on a screen: humiliation, shame and fear. Those are the reasons it almost always takes a long time for abused children to come forward, if they ever do, perhaps especially boys raped by older men.