"I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it."

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Source: 'Serpent' Film Explores, Revives Lost Cultural Knowledge For Colombians. Weekend Edition Sunday with Tom Cole, www.npr.org. February 21, 2016.

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