What a horror: A music teacher in the Chicago suburb kidnaping and sexually abusing more than 20 young girls over an extended period of time, and getting away with it because his victims don't tell anyone about it--until one 15-year-old tells her parents.
Here's another figure of trust for youngsters, an educator, abusing that trust in the most heinous way, getting them to think he's playing a game with them as he ties them up with rope and duct tape. Some are as young as 9. Is there anything school officials can do better to detect such monsters in their midst? Is there anything parents can do better to get their children to report such encounters? Shouldn't we have made greater strides in protecting them from abusers than we apparently have?
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