Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau & Luke Malone (on child sexual abuse prevention)
5/20/20262 hr 1 min
Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau (One in Five) is a leading prevention researcher and Luke Malone is an Emmy-nominated journalist. Elizabeth and Luke join Armchair Expert to discuss the staggering prevalence of child sexual abuse, why this subject is so difficult to talk about publicly, and how a reluctant interview became a long collaboration. Elizabeth, Luke, and Dax talk about the difference between pedophilia and offending, why so much child sexual abuse happens at the hands of other kids, and how the current justice system often fails both victims and young offenders. Elizabeth and Luke explain why prevention should be treated as a public health issue, how shame prevents people from seeking help before harm happens, and why compassion and accountability have to exist together.
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First 90 secondsDax Shepard· Host0:00
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert, Experts on Expert. I'm Dan Shepherd. I'm joined by Lily Padman.
Monica Padman· Host0:05
Hi.
Dax Shepard· Host0:06
Today we have Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau and Luke Malone on. Uh, if ever there were a cause for a trigger warning, this would be the episode. We are going to get deep into what could only be described as an epidemic of child sexual abuse, uh, one in five kids. Uh, hence the title of their book that they, uh, collaborated on called One in Five: Why Child Sexual Abuse Is Our Biggest Public Health Crisis and What We Can Do to Stop It. Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau is, um, the director of Moore, M-O-O-R-E, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, uh, which is a center focused on child sexual abuse prevention. So we have, like, one of the most foremost experts imaginable. Incredible origin story how these two ended up working together. She w- was gonna get interviewed by Luke and was reluctant to do so, and it's turned into a long collaboration for both of them. And, um, Luke is an Emmy-nominated journalist who has reported on sexual abuse for 15 years, so he is so dedicated to this topic. And there's, um, s- so much stuff you would not have imagined otherwise. Uh, it was a very revealing episode. I learned so much in this episode.
Monica Padman· Host1:21
But also just so people aren't like, "I would, I just would never listen to it," there's, like, good... They're, they're trying to make a lot of progress, and the goal is to end this, and