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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But no relationships will be affected until it is much, much too late unless the cousin is open about her experience.  Of course it's an awful thing for the victim to have to relive over and over, but people are not mind readers and will never know otherwise-unless it happens to them too. OP has left her child with them many times already.  Hopefully the uncle really has been gone during those times, but there's a big risk there and cousin left them very, very vulnerable.[/quote]

Ideally, the cousin would have spoken up sooner. Yes, true. If the cousin had been able to push past the trauma of what she was/is suffering sooner, that is. Many victims of sexual abuse can't - not even after years and decades following the abuse. But, to be clear, it's not the cousin who's left anyone very, very vulnerable. I'm sure you don't mean to blame the person who was brutalized as a child for not speaking up sooner. Perhaps you don't mean to be insensitive, cruel, and clueless, PP, but your words are.[/quote]

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