Keg-parties and assaults: Women from Catholic high schools in Washington area break 'culture of silence'
Women who were part of the same privileged Catholic school set as Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford are taking a fresh look at their high school experiences — particularly the unsupervised, alcohol-fueled parties — and have begun sharing their stories of sexual assault and the shame that kept them quiet. Raised from an early age in their Catholic community to remain chaste, the dozen women who spoke to NBC News said they believed anything that compromised that chastity was their fault — even if they were forced.
“So many of us thought we were alone,” said a graduate of the all-girls Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, who said she was raped at a party in 1982. “But we weren’t. When we heard Christine’s story, we knew that story. We’d experienced it.”
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