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Article: Fear kept Yusuf Bey abuse victims from seeking any help
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- February 10, 2008
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The two sisters who triggered sex crime charges against Oakland
bakery owner Yusuf Bey in 2002 had tried in the early 1980s to get
help from social workers, but fear kept them from speaking
forcefully about the abuse and the social workers didn't pursue the
matter, an investigation by the Chauncey Bailey Project has
revealed.
Even when they got pregnant at 13 and 16, no one launched a
serious investigation, although it was common knowledge at Your
Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, where they lived and worked, that
bakery owner Bey was the father, according to court records and
accounts by bakery associates.
"When I tried and tried to get help, I couldn't get help," said
Jane Doe 1 in brief ...