Faith's Law: Survivor of teacher's sex abuse speaks on new law to protect students

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She was sexually abused by a teacher at her northwest suburban high school, and would learn that adults knew there was an inappropriate relationship, but did nothing about it.

CBS 2 investigator Megan Hickey is digging into a new law aimed at fixing the system; a law that is named after the Schaumburg survivor who fought for change.

"I remember being alone in the classroom with him, and I think it was after school by this time, but that's when he kissed me, and so that started the actual sexual contact," she said. "Unfortunately, because these warning signs were missed, it took them not doing anything to help this person abuse me, and they didn't mean for that to happen, but their lack of action still allowed it to happen," Colson said.

"Internally, there is bias within school for colleagues that you have friendly relationships with, perhaps," she said."I think it's easy sometimes to misunderstand the warning signs I think it's important to look out for your peers and help them when they're not as objective as they could be," Mussman said.

 

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