RE: Millions of kids abused/molested in public schools + New Okeefe video exposing coverups.
Honestly, I am confident this problem is highly underreported.
"contact and/or noncontact educator sexual misconduct that was unwanted."
This precludes those contacts that were considered desirable by students, whom I recall being practically laser focused on sex during pubescence. I was aware during my school years of several relationships and hookups between educators and students, but those were invariably highly sought by the students.
Given that the law defines sexual contact with minors to be harm regardless of minors' consent or appreciation of it, the parameters of the question excludes what is likely to be the majority of sexual impropriety on the part of educators.
While my recollections are anecdotal, I highly doubt they are singular.
Of even greater concern to me than children being involved in sexual misconduct they desired, is that forced upon them by predatory agencies that feed the sex trafficking industry, to wit: the CPS/social services agencies.
88% of runaways sexually trafficked were shown to be escaping from abuse under the care of Social Services. That these kids fled their abuse shows it was not only unwanted, but so unwanted they abandoned what economic and social support that was provided them. Most abused kids don't run away, dependent on those supports for their very lives, despite the harm that comes with them.
Thanks!
Good info thanks man! I think maybe we all could focus on this for a little bit now that the news seems to be slowing down. Beyond "something could happen in Korea" and the "something Stormy Daniels" I think we can safely ignore that a bit for now.
Iam going to focus on some more research of this whole thing. One of my ideas, and I am not sure if Icould even get the data to do this, would be to figure out the chances of people getting molested/abused by public teachers vs randomly vs by your own family vs by the catholic church etc. From what Ihave read so far it seems that a child might be at a larger risk of just being in public school than if they were walking down the street in a bad neighborhood by themselves everyday.
My experience of public school and other institutions was largely the reason I homeschooled my own kids, and never left them in the care of others. Rather than breaking out the abuse by institution, I reckon looking at all of the institutions that are designed to separate children physically from their parents provides a holistic picture.
What that informed me of, as a parent, was that all institutions that were so designed potentiated abuse using those institutions as a vector. What they all had in common, from the Boy Scouts to Juvenile Detention, was that parents were prevented from protecting their kids, and abusers that gained access to those institutions were then able to victimize children.
Separating children from parents is the enabling feature of all these institutions that create abuse.
The one act that protects children from all of them is to maintain physical presence at all times with your kids.