Alleged sex abuse victim speaks out

This from H-L, Photo by Pablo Alcala :

Fredrick Salyers clasped his hands, leaning forward as his elbows rested atop his knees.

He stared blankly at a wall across the room.

"My thing is ... I always keep believing there's someplace else we can go with this," Salyers mused. "I want something done. I get frustrated. I've been carrying this so long."

At the heart of his frustration is his disappointment in the judicial system. He needed it to work. He needed it to give him closure. He got neither.

Weighing on his heart is Charles F. Little Jr.'s court case, which wrapped up in February. Little, a well-known retired Lexington public school music teacher, was accused of sexually abusing three men when they were teenagers in the 1970s and 1980s. Salyers, now 45, was one of those three boys.

In July, Salyers — along with four other named plaintiffs and more than 35 unnamed plaintiffs — filed a class action lawsuit accusing the Fayette County Board of Education of being indifferent to sex abuse allegations in the 1970s and 1980s...