On santacruz.com, you will see one of my comments on the story; my family faced a similar situation, abuse of one of my siblings by a charismatic, creative (and trusted!) individual, with many of the same outraged responses from disbelievers after it was made public on TV by forces beyond our control.   

In our case, there were many others abused by this individual that have never come forward; many never even told their own families. Only two brave individuals did in our case. Despite the already lurid nature of the TV coverage we got, I know for a fact that many of the actual details were even more explosive than what was reported.

So this is to say that the truth of these abuse cases is much worse than you will ever know. The victims of his abuse will be spending the rest of their lives recovering. Like David Lindley said, "this changes everything".

Andy Alexis in California