General Discussion

Instead of focusing on high-profile cases in my opening paragraphs, I could have found examples from the hundreds of cases of sexual abuse of women, girls and boys by ministers of the Southern Baptist church. NPR reported in 2022 that, “the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee mishandled allegations of sex abuse, stonewalled numerous survivors and prioritized protecting the SBC from liability”. Or the grotesqueries of Andrew Cuomo’s alleged sexual harassment and groping while he was governor of New York, followed by his persecution of those who spoke up. I could have brought up that both US and Canadian residential schools for Indigenous children are being exposed as former students who were sexually abused in them find the space to speak out.