Nepal, Feb. 6 -- When Rosha Pokharel came across the Post's report detailing Bodha 'Basu' Tripathee's sexual abuse of students at Lalitpur Madhyamik Vidyalaya, it brought back horrific memories of her own. Rosha was also in the third grade at Lalitpur Madhyamik, nine years old at the time, when a teacher put his hands inside her tunic, rubbed her thighs, and occasionally reached up to her vagina. Only, in her case, the teacher who abused her wasn't Basu Tripathee. It was a Nepali teacher at the same school.

Rosha, who is 32 now, graduated from Lalitpur Madhyamik in 2003 and works as a data scientist in the United States, but she said the memories of what she went through continue to haunt her.

"I tried to erase those memories," Rosha sa...