Learning About the Pain of Sexual Abuse
The young woman was first startled, then alarmed by the sexual advances of the man for whom she had been baby-sitting. He had offered to walk her home, complimented her beauty and, when she said she was cold and wanted to go inside her house, he suggestively offered to make her chill go away.
How did she feel?
Incomoda . Uncomfortable, answered students in a Lennox Middle School class, watching a role play about sexual abuse conducted last week in Spanish.
Guillermo Hoyos, 22, playing the part of the man, and Jessica Gomez, 18, portraying the young girl, are part of Teen Pep, a group co-sponsored by The Richstone Family Center and Lennox School District to educate students about such topics as incest, sexual molestation and physical abuse.
The program, conducted throughout March, primarily used high school students to act out situations that the predominantly Latino Lennox youths might encounter.
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