*sigh*
Gosh, no.
In the 34 years I've had to mull this over, *none* of that has ever occurred to me.
[thank you, Captain Obvious, for pointing it out]
If you take away nothing else from this endless rehashing of "silliness", take away this;
I am *not* unusual in this respect.
THIS is what happens to molested kids.
THIS is how messed up they are until the day they die.
THIS is why molesters "need killin'", as the old joke goes.
Do you have any notion of how hard it is to seek God's comfort or forgiveness when you've been brainwashed into taking all the blame for a "crime" you didn't commit?
The concept of trust and forgiveness takes a lot longer to sink in than with 'normal' people.
You're terribly concerned with the innocent being punished for crimes they didn't do.
Yeah, I can certainly appreciate that a lot better than
you probably ever could.
I have to stop with this now.
I'm in for the inevitable weeks of flashback nightmares already and I'd love to keep it from stretching into months.
God bless you for whatever help you may have been trying to give, in your own way.
I mentioned it because in your early posts, you implied that you parents did not believe you when you told them about the molestation. Since 2 out of the 4 women in your family have been molestation victims, the odds are high that they did believe you and were complicit.
I do regret that you had to endure what you went through in your childhood and while you will never forget, I do pray that you are able to find peace with it. From what I can tell, you are very much on that path. :-)
Just to be clear, I just want those accused of crimes to have their day in court. You were denied justice because your parents were complicit with the molestation and that is a totally different situation. Your parents were wrong in your circumstance and the woman in this story was wrong in her reactions in well - just in a different direction.