Secy. Linda McMahon: Stats Coming from California Show 1 in 10 Children Are Sexually Molested in School

‘You know, the general economy is so strong and doing so well’

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McMAHON: "If you look at what's going on here throughout the country, really, yeah, there are some price upticks, I think, but the general economy is so strong and doing so well. And I think, as students are headed back to school, our parents should have a lot to look forward to this year, I mean, some of the work that we've been doing over the past year to make sure that parents are more in charge of the education that is going on in their states with their children, to have more access to school records, they know that we've been working very hard to make sure that children are safer in school relative to — and this — this stat will probably blow your mind, it did mine — you know, one in 10 children — statistics show one in 10 children, before they finish high school, will have — be sexually molested in school. So one of the things that we have really focused and really driving on is looking at what is going on in schools. California schools that actually reported events of this. We have been investigating it — "

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