I now one man who molested his daughter and grandkids. I know several others who tried it on their step daughters. One or two who made passes at early teen nieces etc. Only one ever did any time in jail. Another case in point I went to school with an idiot now doing 40/40 years back to back for raping a 6 year old.
No family is immune from this but some families chose to ignore it. The best thing any parent can do is educate their kids about where persons are allowed to touch them and when. Be weary of a realitave wanting to take kids into rooms and closing the door. Check on the kid. It may be innocent but it may not and a parent may not know for years to come. This stuff isn't new. It's went on ever since. It happened in the 50's & 60's as well as today.
Dr. Eugene J. Kanin of Purdue University investigated the incidences, in one small metropolitan community, of false rape allegations made to the police between 1978 and 1987. The falseness of the allegations was not decided by the police, or by Dr. Kanin; they were "... declared false only because the complainant admitted they are false." The number of false rape allegations in the studied period was 45; this was 41% of the 109 total complaints filed in this period. In Dr. Kanin's research, the complainants who made false allegations did so (by their own statements during recantation) for three major reasons: * providing an alibi; * a means of gaining revenge; and/or * a platform for seeking attention/sympathy.Link
What if the parents of the 45 women that falsely accused rape had gone out and killed the accused just on the word of their daughter?