Quote From: starwolf Sadly for some children, the family never listens to them, as no one wants to believe that it would happen, or that it is very real. If the child tells, then they get punished, but not the one that did it. No matter what they say or do, they are the ones considered no good, and what the other person did is covered up. The subject is closed as far as the family is concerned, but not the child, and years later, that child within the now adult does feel for those that go through this. Sexual Predators are very sick people, and children need the protection adults can give, if they are willing. You would be surprised how many adults will turn a blind eye. I know it is not an easy path for a child if the family is not there for them, but it is a big help for those that have family that stand by them. Some predators are not caught, no matter how much you may try to get others to listen. Some stand by the predator. Sometimes I wonder why anyone would stand by the predator and the victim is no longer family to them. Everyone is different, and we all choose our own path in the end. I hope more children that go through this are capable of becoming adults that do have a good healthy relationship, and not go the path many choose of drugs, alcohol etc. A child is vunerable and needs the family more than ever at these times. They need to know they are still loved and not an outcast in their own family.
I feel more predators are being caught today and that is something long over due.
I have been there and really feel for those children that go through anything similar or worse. It is a difficult thing to live with, and yet you do. I moved forward in my life, but have met many that did not. This is a show I plan to watch!
I would have to say that being a victim myself of child sexual abuse I have to agree with you... I too was a young child when it happened to me and although I can not remember just how long it went on for I still can not forget it...
I was only 7. My parents let someone with their girlfriend stay on our couch. I never said anything about it to anyone until I was a teenager living away from my mom. I wrote her a letter about and she responded back but that is the time that the step mom decided she wanted to read the letter. I was then asked questions about it and she basically did not believe me that it happened. But she however did not remember that sometime shortly after these two people stayed on the couch for only a couple or few days that I then had started to pee the bed in my sleep...
Even when getting hit with the belt or paddle I did not say a word to them about the abuse.. I was too afraid to.
I was too afraid to get up in the middle of the night to get to the bathroom in fear that the person would be there waiting in the dark. For the longest time and even into my early adult hood I had to have a light on in the bathroom or in the house to have light incase I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Also ever since that had happened to me, I have not had a decent nights sleep... I sleep but if I hear a sound I am wide awake.
I let it go after that but then when I had my first child and my baby being a girl.. I could not help but have everything come back to me....I had not slept good at all. I would dream of someone breaking into the home and doing aweful things to her and me then killing my boyfriend after making him watch it all. I even day dreamed of the things happening... I could not sleep til I thought and knew that the doors were all locked and that was not before checking them over and over again about 10 times. I got tired of it and had to go to counciling for it... For the fact that the step mom never believed me when she was told I never told my father. I know now that he knows because he is up there in Heaven. I know that he is watching over me and my 3 children.
I have never really got over it all. I still today can not sleep if my children are not in the same area as me as we sleep. If they are in the next room I have to get up in the middle of the night to check on them and make sure they are still there.
Ok I am now glad that they caught that sick person and hope that they never let him out on the streets again. I pray that he has not harmed anyone else these years on the run.
I always say that if anyone ever touched my children in any way they would get their private cut off and stuffed down their throat so that they could never harm another child in their life... I hardly ever let my children go anywhere...I sometimes fear for them while they are in school.