Grassroots Influences the Mainstream In Fight Against Child Sex Abuse

When a notable anti-domestic violence activist asked her father, the founder of a Baltimore yeshiva, how rabbis had dealt with child sexual abuse in prewar Europe, he told her, “We closed the shutters.”
Up until a few years ago, this selective blindness was the de facto rabbinic therapy for addressing child sexual abuse in the Jewish community. If you couldn’t see the problem, you couldn’t name it, and if you couldn’t name it, it didn’t exist.

http://forward.com/yiddish/370640/little-by-little-the-grassroots-challenges-the-mainstream-to-rethink-child/