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28 April 2017

Silence around Seattle mayor’s rape allegations

This was going to be a story about how far we’ve come in talking about victims of sexual abuse. It was a few days after a man, age 46, initials D.H., filed a lawsuit saying Seattle Mayor Ed Murray had paid him for sex when he was 15.
It turned out similar allegations against Murray had surfaced a decade ago but were never shared with the public – a lawyer withdrew and reporters balked. That made me wonder if we as a society had evolved since 2008 in how we treat victims.

http://kuow.org/post/silence-around-seattle-mayor-s-rape-allegations