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Geof Lambert
Your Turn
Have you ever been sexually abused? Were you sexually abused as a child? I realize that those are fairly direct and personal questions.
For me the answers to those questions are now, yes, and yes.
If you would have asked me those questions not much more than a few years ago, I probably would have answered no and no.
Times change, people change.
While my father and mother were alive, I told myself there is no need to publicly tell anybody about the abuse I suffered. My father was a friend of my abuser. They both belonged to the same Rotary Club, the Rotary Club of Chambersburg. They both shared an affinity for sailing, especially in the Caribbean. They were both active members of the same church, the Presbyterian Church of the Falling Spring, which was formed by the founder of Chambersburg, Benjamin Chambers. The abuser and my father were both active members of the Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce.
Chambersburg Public Opinion
Charles Quinton “C.Q.” Smith, a U.S. Army veteran, Boy Scout leader and businessman who presented himself as a pillar of the community in Chambersburg but perpetrated acts of sexual abuse for decades and escaped criminal prosecution, has died at 81.
In an email on Wednesday, the Rev. Andy Hart of the Presbyterian Church of Falling Spring, where Smith was a longtime member, notified others of his death.
Smith, he wrote, had been living at Providence Place Senior Living and died on Tuesday.
The cause of death has not been revealed, but Smith was in poor health for some time.