Watching "Spotlight," the movie about The Boston Globe’s
investigation of Massachusetts clergy who raped children, and reading
about employees of St. George’s School in Middletown who sexually abused
students, has prompted memories of my 1960s and ‘70s childhood
Only luck, I have concluded, spared me and my friends the fate of these many victims. Back then, we were youngsters in a world where authority was accepted without question, and where certain authorities with sanctioned access to children — clergy, teachers, coaches and scout leaders among them — were almost god-like in stature.
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20160110/opinion/160119946
Only luck, I have concluded, spared me and my friends the fate of these many victims. Back then, we were youngsters in a world where authority was accepted without question, and where certain authorities with sanctioned access to children — clergy, teachers, coaches and scout leaders among them — were almost god-like in stature.
http://www.providencejournal.com/article/20160110/opinion/160119946
