March 3 marked a turning point. On that day, Newsweek magazine published an article titled Child Abuse Allegations Plague the Hasidic community.
(True, there have been other articles in major media outlets about abuse in Orthodox communities but this is the first time the problem was broadly tackled in a major, full-length, comprehensive, well-researched piece in a publication not geared exclusively toward a Jewish readership.)
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/focusing-a-light-on-abuse/2016/03/11/0/
(True, there have been other articles in major media outlets about abuse in Orthodox communities but this is the first time the problem was broadly tackled in a major, full-length, comprehensive, well-researched piece in a publication not geared exclusively toward a Jewish readership.)
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/focusing-a-light-on-abuse/2016/03/11/0/