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How Many More Victims Before It Stops?
Sexual abuse of children seems endless, pervasive, and impossible to eradicate
I’ve been talking with my writing friends about fiction I want to write. I’ve been working hard with my husband to play good music in our local area. I’m making many new friends and I’m very happy.
Yet something always happens to pull us back to abuse, pain, and sorrow.
Actress Katie Wee had a profile featured in the San Francisco Chronicle about her experiences after she testified in the first trial of now-convicted serial pedophile and former ballet dancer and instructor Viktor Kabaniaev.
I took ballet for ten years and, though I was eventually kicked out of the ballet corps because my breasts grew too large, I could have easily been in Katie’s position. At age 12 and 13, dancing, modeling, and being around Hollywood professionals at my father’s house, one or more adult men touched me inappropriately and made sexual comments to me almost every day. It was so common and we were all so socialized to accept all of it. Only now as a mature adult do I look back and realize how wrong it all was.
No adult woman would have tolerated the way these men acted. Some might have laughed, others slapped their faces, and still others may have angrily protested…
