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In reply to the discussion: Do you think it's possible that Sandusky's wife didn't know? [View all]Aerows
(39,961 posts)Thousands of people survive abuse and don't become abusers, don't take it personally. A lot of people just don't understand what happens in sick minds like Sandusky's and try to rationalize or figure it out by saying he must have been done this way himself.
It's very sad what you endured, and you came out on the other side of it. You aren't abusing children, and there are millions more like you. Sometimes these creeps fabricate that abuse happened to them to justify what they do and make it seem normal. There is nothing normal about preying on children, and there are far more people that NEVER abuse children, even though they were abused themselves, than those that do. Hell, there are some that were never abused that do it.
Rise above it, my friend, and ignore the people that are eager to explain the unexplainable. It's so sad that many just want to reflexively categorize it rather than deal with the fact that it happens to children, and seemingly "normal" people commit these hideous crimes.