Women from Catholic high schools in Washington area break 'culture of silence' Mary Pflum and Brandy Zadrozny 22 hrs ago
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Christine "Cricket" Keating had a close-knit circle of friends growing up in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the 1980s — but there were some things they never discussed.
Keating and her friends — classmates at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School and other all-girls Roman Catholic schools in the area — were part of the same privileged set as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, though Keating was not friends with them. At that time, alcohol-fueled parties and drunken carousing were the norm, Keating and her schoolmates said.
But it was not until this month — after Ford alleged publicly that Kavanaugh assaulted her at one of those high school parties more than three decades ago, an allegation he vehemently denies — that women who attended the parties as teenagers began sharing their own stories of sexual assault and the shame and fear that kept them quiet afterward. Many are now taking a fresh look at their high school experiences and are grappling with a new understanding of misbehavior that took place decades ago.
"We had a strong friendship network and yet there was a curtain of silence," said Keating, who graduated from Georgetown Visitation in 1985 and has been horrified recently to read her classmates' accounts on private social media groups of what they experienced.
Ford, she said, "is breaking that culture of silence."
dozen women who attended Catholic and private prep schools in the Montgomery County area in the 1980s spoke to NBC News this week, seven of them on the record. The women — most of whom signed an open letter saying they believed Ford's allegation, and all but two of whom did not know her or Kavanaugh personally — shared their memories of kegs, bonfires and unsupervised beach houses where heavy drinking fueled sexually inappropriate comments and behavior and attacks that were never spoken of afterward.
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Poster Comment:
These attacks on Kavanaugh are an attempt by the Looney Left to smear him and knock his nomination out of the box.
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