"As a 17-year-old boy, I was devastated. … Today I understand that I
did nothing to bring this on, but at age 17 I could not understand what
happened or why."
At 53, Scott Cross had waited more than three decades to talk to anyone about the incident in which, he said, his high school wrestling coach sexually molested him. By the time he shared his story — with family, prosecutors and then to a packed courtroom — his alleged sexual abuser, Dennis Hastert, had escaped prosecution.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-hastert-sex-abuse-children-statute-limitations-editorial-0504-jm-20160503-story.html
At 53, Scott Cross had waited more than three decades to talk to anyone about the incident in which, he said, his high school wrestling coach sexually molested him. By the time he shared his story — with family, prosecutors and then to a packed courtroom — his alleged sexual abuser, Dennis Hastert, had escaped prosecution.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-hastert-sex-abuse-children-statute-limitations-editorial-0504-jm-20160503-story.html