As the recent Penn State scandal reminds us, child sexual abuse is a silent epidemic around the world. In the U.S., a shocking one in four girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before their eighteenth birthdays. Meet Michele Booth Cole, Executive Director of Safe Shores -- The DC Children's Advocacy Center, an organization dedicated to working directly with child victims of sexual and physical abuse in Washington, D.C. From the front lines, Michele has developed her own urgent and compelling vision of a society in which children are safe -- and adults act as a community to keep them
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