Criminologist: Why does it take victims of child sex abuse so long to speak up?

[caption id="attachment_1262" align="alignleft" width="150"] Michael Salter
Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Western Sydney University[/caption]

"Disclosure is not an event but a process. Many factors are at play in enabling or constraining a child to speak directly about abuse and bringing that complaint to the attention of the authorities".