coming forward

These efforts are coming forward at the Tuesday meeting of the Board of Education in four emergency resolutions sponsored by board President Jackie Goldberg in her last regular public board meeting before her retirement.

The fact that such a violent crime could occur in one of the Netherlands' busiest nightspots without witnesses coming forward continues to confound investigators.

Irwin Mitchell said the large number of stonemasons, quarries and stoneyards in Leeds and Bradford had led to more victims of the disease coming forward to seek legal advice.

However, "social stigma" prevented people coming forward, it said.

Abi, who recalls talking to various officials after coming forward to her mother about the abuse, says it was difficult because it felt like she spoke up back then “for nothing.”