I was a senior in high school when a scoutmaster in my area was arrested after a child was taken to the hospital with bleeding coming from his rectum after a camp out. That day as I sat in the school library reading the newspaper, my boyfriend was seated across from me and caught the front page of the paper and the picture of the scoutmaster who was funny enough also a Baptist church deacon. My boyfriend turned sheet white and ran from the library. It took a lot of coaxing to find out his story (and then convincing him to tell it to authorities) and I spent many a day at the courthouse as children from 8-21 years old were packed in to recall the accounts of their abuse. For some it was simply being exposed to porn (which is how he would feel out his victims) and for some it was full out sexual assault with the threat of harm to family or being exposed in a very rural area as a "faggot", that earned most of the children and now men's silence. I just remember the faces of the teenagers who could not even look eachother in the face or for many did not even look up. No person should have to feel such shame. I'm not sure how much time he got but I know my boyfriend had to drive by the jail to get to some locations and that caused trauma as well.

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