Predation is omnipresent. Perhaps it is part of the nature of existence.
Midtown Group is an AA group in the Washington - Baltimore area. The leader of the group, Michael Quinones seems to have used it as his happy hunting ground.
But according to more than a dozen young people who structured their lives around the group, the unusual adaptation of AA that Michael Quinones created from his home in Bethesda became a confusing blend of comfort and crisis. They described a rigidly insular world of group homes and socializing, in which older men had sex with teenage girls, ties to family and friends were severed or strained, and the most vulnerable of alcoholics, some suffering from emotional problems, were encouraged to stop taking prescribed medications.
Predation has many faces, some of them trusted.