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| METRO NEWARK Reporting Child Sexual Abuse |
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Marty Finkel was fresh out of medical school the first time he treated a victim of child abuse. It haunts him still. "I was outraged," he says. Now a practicing pediatrician, Martin Finkel, D.O., says the experience caused him to be extremely vigilant in detecting cases of suspected child abuse in his practice. Then, in 1982, he attended a conference on the most unspeakable abuse of all — sexual child abuse. "I didn’t know about it," he says, "I was as naive as anyone else." Once unmentionable, sexual child abuse is now prominently featured in the media and educational materials. Is it more common now, or just talked about more openly? Dr. Finkel and other experts don’t know, but, according to conservative estimates, half a million American children will be molested this year . . . |
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 All Writing Samples Copyright © 1998 Lois Seeligsohn |
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