“Too many girls, young women keep an awful secret”

From the Sunday Oregonian, a powerful piece by Jeannette Pai-Espinosa on the marginalizing of girls and young women who have been abused. Here’s a short excerpt:

Violence against girls and women is an epidemic in this country, and while we often demonstrate concern for the way women are treated in Third World countries, somehow the majority of Americans just don’t want to contemplate the same issue within our borders.