When Oprah Winfrey learned in early October that a dorm matron had allegedly abused students at her beloved Leadership Academy for Girls near Johannesburg, South Africa, she cried for a half hour. She was stunned that her $40-million-plus dream of educating that country's brightest, most disadvantaged girls had turned into a nightmare. But the woman who overcame her own poverty and sexual abuse to become one of the world's richest and most influential role models quickly turned what she calls "one of the, if not the most, devastating experiences of my life" into a springboard for action.
Within days, she and BFF Gayle King, along with Houston child psychiatrist and author (The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog) Dr. Bruce Perry, flew to the school to check out t
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