Bill Cosby Is Guilty. The Women Were Heard.
And now two, Larry Nassar and Bill Cosby, have been found guilty in courts of law. “There has been a change in the world, and more people believe women’s stories today,” said Emily Martin, general counsel and vice president for education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center. “More people understand why the trauma of these events might lead to some period of time passing before individuals are willing to stand up and say, ‘This happened to me.’ And more people understand that individuals we like and admire have the capacity to do terrible things.”