Prosecutor's book helps parents discuss sex abuse

Know it: Parenting Everything you would need to know about parenthood. was working on the case of a little girl who had been consistently raped by her stepfather when she got an idea of how she could help families prevent such horrific acts. The girl, from a middle-class home in the Bronx, was molested starting at age 6, and like most children she didn't tell anyone. Then she saw an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show " that happened to be on children who were beaten. The message at the end of the show was simple: If you're being abused, tell a parent or a teacher. The girl, who by then was 9 years old, told her teacher the next day. "I thought, either Oprah needs to end every show with 'If you're being hurt, you need to tell someone,' or someone needs to do something," Starishevsky said. "All Oprah had to do was say 'Tell a... [read full story]