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Commentary: Predators depend on bystanders to do nothing

More than 200 victim impact statements by women sexually assaulted over the course of two decades when they were girls, some as young as 6 years old, by a Michigan State University physician.

The above are predators. The sheer number of sexual assaults reflects perpetrator impunity. Their power is unchecked. That needs to be stopped.

While the victim-predator dynamic is, naturally, the focus of public and media attention, it is an incomplete configuration. In reality, the correct metaphor is a triangle, rather than a straight line connecting two actors. Why a triangle? Because there is often a third actor who facilitates the predator-perpetrator.