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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just wish one single person had reported something in 40 years.[/quote]

THIS.  I feel for these girls, now women.  But why oh why couldn't they have reported this EARLIER??  Then, perhaps, this guy could have been prosecuted.  The worst that will happen to him is that his political career is ruined.  [/quote]

If you can’t had it happen to you, you will never understand. That there is often a significant power imbalance. A child vs an adult. A powerful member of the community vs a kid. That if you are never had a sexual relationship, and you live in a culture where talking about sex is taboo, you may not understand at the time what just happened. That you are embarrassed to talk about it or you may not know how to talk about it, or who it is safe to talk to, Especially if sex isn’t talked about openly in your family or in your society. That you are ashamed that you were treated that way. That you are afraid you won’t be believed. That’s you are afraid you could get in trouble.  That you are afraid that you might somehow be to blame. That you are completely humiliated Sexual abuse is emotionally complicated in a way other crimes are not. And if you add in religious beliefs that make encourage sexual repression and a power imbalance, it is even worse.  So you push it down and try to forget it happened.  But it just doesn’t go away.

I was molested as a tween.  I was brought up in a conservative religious environment in the south, and we did not talk about sex. Ever. It took me 25 years to tell a therapist.  In my mid 40s,  my husband, my mother and my sister know, plus my BFF of 20 years know I was molested.  But I still can’t talk about  the details out loud.  And if my abuser was running for office, I doubt I would be brave enough to come forward. And even if I was, I would hesitate, since I now have children, and I would not want them to have to deal with knowing.

A lot of people are telling you that I’m many cases it just is not as easy as a 12 or 13 or 14 year old telling mom and calling the police.  Maybe rather than telling victims how they should feel, and what they should have done, listen when they tell you that sexual assault can be very different than other crimes.

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THIS. I was fortunately not molested but was approached daily by a predator from age 12-13. He knew my schedule, my (Metro) bus stop, my school. Usually, interactions with him were across the street from our home with my mom usually inside and getting ready for work. This guy would beg me to get into his car and promise to take me to McDonalds before school. I blamed myself for not reporting it sooner and feared getting in trouble if I did. Yes, I find that totally ridiculous now as an adult, but my 12-13yo mind just hoped for the problem to go away. In my mind, my only recourse was to leave for school extra early to avoid him. On days when I wasn't out of the house sooner, I blamed myself for the interactions. I was a DC kid who was exposed to alot growing up, yet I still didn't know how to handle this. About 1/3 of my friends were molested as young girls. I was one of the lucky ones.[/quote]

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