Marzo 4, 2022, por Marci Hamilton, Fundadora y CEO de CHILD USA. Publicado originalmente en The Well News (https://www.thewellnews.com/opinions/olympians-continue-to-experience-widespread-abuse-and-endangerment-we-now-know-how-to-protect-them/) Traducción: Vinka Jackson. Me encantan las...
Athletes First!
The Beijing Olympics opened with spectacular ceremonies including many beautiful children smiling away as they danced and posed. Why so many children? Because China with its world stage wants to shift attention away from its one-child per family policy to its new policy of encouraging three...
Elysse Stolpe Esq.’s CHILD USA Story
This story was written by CHILD USA Board of Directors member Elysse Stolpe, Esq. J.R.R. Tokien was writing about Hobbits, not children, when he declared that “even the smallest person can change the course of the future,” but his statement also applies to the brave children I encounter every day...
The Ambassador and the Captain
Pictured above are Kathryn Robb, then-Lt. Gov. Hochul of New York, and Prof. Marci Hamilton For almost 20 years, I have been an active and sometimes loud voice in the SOL reform movement, starting back in 2002 when I first became involved in this movement in the Connecticut state legislature. I...
Addressing the Stigmas of Sexual Abuse
This essay was written by Pralaya Cuomo. Pralaya was honored with CHILD USA’s Trailblazer Award in 2021. Pralaya read a version of this essay during her award acceptance speech at CHILD USA’s 5th Annual Awards Celebration. Pralaya graduated from Columbia University in 2020 with a B.A. in...
The Thomas P. Doyle Whistleblower Award – Recipients: Terence Mckiernan, Anne Barrett Doyle, and Suzy Nauman
“The Massachusetts attorney general released a report last month saying that at least 789 children and probably more than 1,000 have been sexually abused by 250 priests and other church workers in the Archdiocese of Boston since 1940. The report also criticized many former aides to Cardinal Law...
The Barbara Blaine Trailblazer Award Recipient: Sabrina Ewart
To meet Sabrina Ewart is to meet a lovely young woman, competent in her career as a special needs teacher and special education coordinator, mother of a thriving special needs child, and budding entrepreneur. She is also a courageous voice speaking from experience as one of the survivors of child...
Denise N. George, Attorney General, U.S. Virgin Islands and Recipient: The Barbara Blaine Trailblazer Award
Jeffrey Epstein: a name ripped from recent headlines that evokes shock, anger, and above all raises the questions of how human trafficking and sexual abuse can remain either uninvestigated or even undetected while ensnaring hundreds of victims. Although he died in prison in August 2019 while...
Kai Zen Bickle: Voice of the Voiceless Award Recipient
Imagine the horror and heartbreak of realizing the father you love is using power, wealth, and position to sexually abuse women and young girls. And that he has been doing the unthinkable for decades with no apparent repercussions. How do you handle the emotional pressure of sorting out possible...