Child sexual abuse: a paramount concern in every state
Violence against children is always a topic that rightly commands front-page news attention in media outlets across California and the rest of the country, given the sheer vulnerability of adolescents and the corresponding need to spotlight the wrongs committed against them.
In no realm is that truer than with acts of sexual abuse committed against children, a subject of great sensitivity and continuing concern in the United States.
Many of our readers undoubtedly read and were horrified by recent accounts of sexual abuse that played out on a massive scale for years at a private preparatory school in Rhode Island. Reportedly, scores of former students were victimized by both other students and staff members at that institution.
Such a story serves, of course, as a most sobering reminder that similar developments can occur anywhere in the country, with schools in Los Angeles and elsewhere in California hardly being immune from the pernicious evil of sexual abuse against minors.
As noted in one recent media report discussing school-based child sexual abuse, “Each state has discretion to enact legislation that it feels will protect children and hold perpetrators accountable.”
That license to act is of course both comforting and necessary, but it is also evident that the legislation passed by the various states can differ markedly in its effectiveness to combat sex abuse. The article cited above notes, for example, that private schools in New York are exempt from the statutory law that governs the conduct of officials at public schools in that state. That creates, states the article, “a double standard that leaves thousands of children at risk for child sexual abuse.”
Persons with questions or concerns regarding this tremendously important topic area can reach out for answers — and, when, necessary, for rigorous legal representation — to a proven personal injury attorney who routinely advocates on behalf of sex abuse victims.
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