Anyone who thinks an adult telling about being molested as a child is a liar --

[IdaBriggs]

185. I know one child who was raped when she was four.

Her molester used to put a gun in her mouth and promise to kill her and her family if she ever told. He got caught, and was in more trouble for the gun than for the molestation.

I know another child who was ten when she was raped. The police actively discouraged her family from prosecuting because they felt it would be more traumatic for her to go through a trial and stated that she had "suffered enough." She was eleven the first time she attempted suicide, but fortunately she didn't succeed. Her abuser agreed to counseling; he attended one session, and was "too busy" to attend another.

I know one boy who was repeatedly molested by his father. His parents divorced over it, and his mom got the house in exchange for her silence. When he was a teenager, he started acting out what had been done to him on other children. His brother doesn't speak to him thirty years later. He still lives in the house his father paid for.

I knew one girl who told me about her grandfather molesting her. She told her mother. Her mother didn't believe her. Later she found out he used to molest her mother and aunt, and had been able to molest ALL of his granddaughters because no one talked about it / protected them; the older generation really didn't believe he would do it to their daughters. The girl I knew started cutting herself. It was the first time I learned that survivors would do that; she said it made her feel like she was in control. She stressed that she wasn't suicidal; suicidal would get you locked up. She planned on celebrating when the bastard died, but in the meantime, if she didn't want to be around him, she was considered to be a trouble maker.

I know way too much about this stuff.



Screw the presumption of innocence; I've read the letter. She's telling the truth.