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East Greenwich Clergy Abuse: What the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Report Means for Survivors — and What Comes Next The sound of a school nurse’s office door opening. Light reflecting off a stained-glass window. The dread of getting on the school bus every morning. If you are reading this page, those fragments may be yours — and the report that came out of the Rhode Island attorney general’s office this week may be the first time anyone in authority has said, in writing, that what happened to you was real, that it was not your fault, and that the institution you trusted knew about it and hid it. We are Attorney911, and this page is written for one person: the survivor — or the survivor’s family — who is sitting with this report and deciding whether there is anything left to do about it. There is. The road is not simple, and we will not pretend it is. But a state government just corroborated what survivors have been saying for decades, and the law in Rhode Island has changed in ways that may open a door that was locked for most of your life. This is what that door looks…