When I was 10, "I said" that my aunt's husband was molesting me.
I continued to say it for nearly 5 years.
Halfway through my 4th year, my little 10 year cousin came to me and "she said" he was molesting her.
"We both said" to our mothers and -nothing- was ever done about it.
[they didn't want to "ruin" my aunt's life]
Another cousin never said anything that any of us ever heard but suddenly her mother and my uncle completely disappeared from the family scene around the time that the cousin turned 10.
"The family" made up weird theories rather than face the likely probability.
The aunt that's married to the 'weird uncle' was a 4th grade teacher who often brought students to their home.
How many innocent lives were "touched" by that man because "she said" wasn't good enough?
He's living a wonderful life right now; a veritable pillar of the community and respected Christian.
Any accusation against him would be met with open derision, lacking the support of parents who believed what their kids had said.
The [now grown] little girls are all living varied degrees of living hells.
I applaud the parents who would go to such lengths to protect their children.
There are other parents who do nothing for fear of creating a "scene".
How I wish mine had been the former rather than the latter.
Then there's Tawana Brawley. Darn good thing that people's trigger fingers were slow in that case.
Oh I am so deeply sad over what you and your cousins went through. How terrible your parents did not listen to and do something about what was happening. I hope and pray you all find peace and happiness as well. God help the perverts who hurt children. They will pay. They will. Good luck to you and to your cousins.
Just wondering, it may not be too late to protect some little girl.
Why all the quotation marks? They don't add clarity, and they make the reader think that what's inside them isn't necessarily so.
In a context such as the above, quotation marks are the punctuation equivalent of putting "alleged" or "so-called" in front of the words inside them.
What a terrible thing to have to live through, God Bless and keep you.
There are other parents who do nothing for fear of creating a "scene".
There are those who will do anything-- I mean ANYTHING-- to avoid any form of shame or embarrassment.
It's easier to sacrifice a child than your life (marriage, family, circle of friends, community status, church, mostly your whole frame of reality). Besides, if you tell the kid they're exaggerating, being overly emotional or 'don't understand what he's trying to do', you'll start to believe it yourself.
I applaud this mother too.
Mine was a brother. He has a daughter now. My children are not allowed around him; we have done the disappear from the family scene.
Where was your father?
I sincerely hope that you find some peace in this world......you deserve it....
I know a family who is going through the same hell.
Grandpa (pillar of the community, deacon of the church, Bible thumper) was a child molestor and managed to molest two generations of kids. To this day nobody in that family is allowed to admit it, but his victims live with this hell everyday.
If this were my family, I probably wouldn't have shot him, I'd PAY someone to hurt him really bad, though. Had it been my daughter, niece, or anyone close to me, he'd have been beaten to a pulp everytime he looked at a girl the wrong way.
Here in Kentucky we have two types of law "legal action" and "double action". Your Uncle should have gotten the latter.