Abuse Survivors Speak Out About Increasing Epidemic
On May - 18 - 2012
STATE COLLEGE, PA —In the wake of the child sex abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky that rocked West-central Pennsylvania, 6News sat down with advocates and abuse survivors to take a closer look at the troubling trend in our region. Cambria County native Matt Bodenschatz kept his abuse as a child secret, until the Sandusky scandal nudged him to open up through a public letter to the editor in the Centre Daily Times last November. READ MORE HERE
---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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