LA84 Foundation's SportsLetter Interview

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An in-depth interview by David Davis with Coached into Silence director Chris Gavagan

LA84 Foundation's SportsLetter Interview: Chris Gavagan's documentary on sexual abuse in youth sports

Prep-School Predators The Horace Mann School’s Secret History of Sexual Abuse

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I posted this New York Times Magazine article yesterday on theCoached into Silence Facebook page, but the Pandora’s box of broken silence ensures that there is much more to follow.

There are so many aspects of these Horace Mann revelations that echo what we have seen at institutions…

Assemblywoman Markey brings the Child Victims Act to Albany once again

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From the Legislative Gazette :

Chris Gavagan, a filmmaker and documentarian, spoke of the abuse he experienced as a child from his roller hockey coach. "I was here last year … The fact that we're having this conversation again is a catastrophic failure," Gavagan said. "If your child had a one in five chance of getting hit by a car today, you'd be spending every moment of every legislative session fighting for stop signs, for speed bumps, for lower speed limits, for traffic lights. Yet when the odds are exactly the same of your child falling victim to a sexual predator, your inaction gives nothing but green lights to those who seek to prey on children."

10,000 hours of listening to the station, 15 years of membership...and then I had to hear me.

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A lowercase 'd' dream come true: My NPR debut  as I  was a guest on the Diane Rehm show 
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Yesterday former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky waived his right to a preliminary hearing. He’s been charged with 27 felony counts of child sex abuse. Witnesses were to detail their versions of the alleged incidents, but Jerry Sandusky’s attorney said the hearing would have given Sandusky’s accusers a chance to publicly rehash allegations. Join us for a discussion of the latest developments in the Penn State case and its broader implications

Guests

David Newhouse

editor, The Patriot-News

Mary Leary

associate professor, Columbus School of Law The Catholic University of America

Mark Horner

director of clinical services, Childhelp's Alice C. Tyler Village,a residential treatment center

Chris Gavagan

filmmaker, currently directing a documentary on sex abuse in sports, "Coached Into Silence"

Dr Fred Berlin

associate professor director, Sexual Behavior Consultation Unit Johns Hopkins University

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-12-14/child-sex-abuse
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