Good grief. How quickly we forget the Wenatchee, WA “child sexual abuse cases”. This may not, and probably is not, true. An 8 year old claiming that BOTH her parents secretly and independantly from one another sexually abused her? ...and the circumstances appear to be that the police were called because she was claiming another little boy exposed himself to her? Wow, this kid has amazingly bad luck. no.
That is a little odd. It’s always important to hold out for the possibility that none of it, or not all of it, is true.
It reads as if they’re saying that each parent was abusing the girl, without knowing what the other was doing? Seems awfully unlikely. Perhaps it’s just not a carefully written sentence.
You’re absolutely right that we should reserve judgment until things are *proven.* And Dorothy Rabinowitz did amazing investigative reporting for the WSJ on the Wenatchee case. That said, I stand by my statement that statistically, abusers are found in or near the home, and that non-blood relatives or sorta-kinda relatives (like a live-in boyfriend) are more likely to abuse a chld than a close blood relative. Of course, that does not mean that the adoptive parents in this case are guilty. We simply don’t know yet. My post was meant as more of a warning to parents who still believe that kids are more vulnerable to stranger danger than other kinds of danger.