Jeff Meyer

Inverted Reality didn’t start out as a book at all. It was just some notes about the types of cases other sexual abuse attorneys thought were viable, contrasted with the cases I thought were viable. Notes about why I thought certain cases had merit that were being turned down or settled for small amounts by other lawyers handling sexual abuse cases.

I honestly was puzzled. And the beginnings of this book were an attempt by me to write things down I wanted to understand better.

You see, sexual abuse cases are, for the most part, negligence cases. In the context of youth serving organizations, this means you need to prove a school, church or sports team did something they shouldn’t have done, or didn’t do something they should have. Ultimately it came down to what you thought the problem was. Was it not acting properly after there was notice of actual abuse, or was it not preventing abuse that is a permanent, known feature of all youth serving organizations?

I definitely was in the second camp, and I also knew that a common belief in the first camp was one of the things that was leading to more children being abused.

More could be done, so much more. So I wrote a book about it. And I sincerely hope this book becomes part of the conversation that happens in homes, in schools and in churches and other youth serving organizations about the right way to approach and solve this catastrophic but preventable problem.