The Cult of The Peace Corps
Sounds Like A Cult
The Disrespectful Role of the Peace Corps
In 2011, ABC reported that more than a thousand female Peace Corps volunteers have been sexually assaulted in the past decade. Some victims felt that the agency either sought to cover up the incidents or engage in victim blaming. There was a murder of a volunteer Kate Poussey in Benin after she reported her suspicions that a contractor was sexually harassing students at the school where she taught. So there are multiple levels of disgusting in this in that it seems like the Peace Corps knew that there was the harassing of students going on.
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