That's the headline on a New York Times story Wednesday that found the founder of the United Farm Workers groomed and sexually abused girls for decades.

The UFW began its history with a major strike against the California grape industry which included both table grapes and winegrapes in 1965.

A New York Times investigation into accusations by two women found "substantial evidence to support their accusations and those raised by several other women against" Chavez, who died i 1993 at the age of 66.

The UFW cancelled its annual celebrations honoring Chavcez and called the accusations "profoundly shocking." Marches to honor him were called off in Austin, Texas; Tucson, Ariz.; and elsewhere.

The two women who were the initial source of the Times reporting were the daughters of longtime union organizers who marched in rallies with him. One said she became so traumatized that she attempted to end her life multiple times before she was 15.

Dolores Huerta, Chavez's most prominent aide in the movement, told the Times he raped her. The interview was the first time she disclosed the assault.

"Many of the women stayed silent for decades, both out of shame and for fear of tarnishing the image of a man who has become the face of the Latino civil rights movement, his image on school murals and his birthday a state holiday in California," the Times said.

The investigation involved interviews with more than 60 top aides, union members and relatives, as well as a review of hundreds of pages of union records, confidential emails, photographs and contemporaneous audio recordings.

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