To: xavnhoutx
ages 3 to 5This age range is very different from a 12 year old. A 12 year old isn't going to "forget" something happened. He might be ashamed (though it wasn't his fault) but he isn't going to forget. Something is wrong here.
39 posted on
10/27/2005 1:33:47 PM PDT by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: TXBubba
A 12 year old who has been sexually abused, can be so abused, menatally and physically, that they are left feeling ashamed at what this pervert did to them. In some way they feel like it was their fault, so no one is told, therefore no crime is reported, this child hunkers down and pretends the best he can, that nothing happened. To save HIS face.
Then, as an adult, this memory is allowed to come back and the humiliation and wrongness of it is only too clear. This happens time and time again.
The only thing wrong I see is some people may be judging a 12 year old as an adult and think that he should have been brave enough to come forward with his horror. Often reality is far far different.
40 posted on
10/27/2005 3:21:12 PM PDT by
Rose of Sharn
(I get the best answers when I talk to myself!)
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