I have seen two people impacted by cases involving sex crimes. In both cases even if the entire family disowns them, the mom will believe whatever BS story that the perp comes up with.

Your mom is a warrior. Give her a hug from us. That is a good mom.

yes, yes he should. considering how many times child molesters molest, yes, he should definetely be somewhere where he can’t hurt any other child again.

I’m guessing no one ever molested u or raped u. So yeah jail is horrible but it has nothing on rape.

I’ve been the victim in a situation similar to this case. One of my “loved ones” gets arrested for the rape of a child - he is safer in the horrible place that prison is than on the streets with me.

I don’t want to star this because of your last sentence. I’m a survivor of childhood molestation too, and when I told my parents about it, I learned that the same relative had molested my dad too as a child. Something I don’t think I’ll ever be able to tell my dad is to thank him for never touching me or forcing me…

I hope that mother never speaks to the grandmother again. That level of betrayal is just unforgivable.

This is all too often true. And unless you can help the kid those memories can create some really messed up attractions and a cycle. It’s truly up to the adults to help heal them. They can’t seek therapy on their own at that point.

Damn. This is some mic droppin’ scary ass truth. Well said.

Do y’all even know what goes on to get examined to see if you were penetrated. This little is gonna be truamatized for the rest of her life because of this man and he is still put this little girl through more stuff. There deserves to be just for her no matter what. I could careless if they do take his crappy self to…

I think it’s more that, when Trump took the White House, victims of sexual assault decided The System was not only failing to help them, it was actively hurting them and had no intention of stopping. When you’re furious and denied justice and have no hope of getting it peacefully, locking arms and setting shit on fire…

It’s not even a “she’s one of those garbage humans that it’s okay to rape” defense. It’s the “her mother is one of those garbage humans that it’s okay to rape the 11-year old daughter of” defense. Fuck this piece of trash, and his trash lawyers with him.

Yes, but “innocent until proven guilty” isn’t reasonable in these circumstances. Let me be clear: law enforcement and courts should always have that policy. However, when it comes to one’s personal list of things they will and won’t accept, that person also gets to decide where the lines are.

I had a mother tell me that her kid had been molested by a family member but they stopped sending him to therapy because it was too upsetting for the rest of the family.

there are a lot of survivors out there with PTSD that are having a really tough go of the Trump presidency. Knowing that we have a perpetrator in chief, and that millions of your neighbors knew exactly who he was and elected him anyway, is really, really hard to handle when you’ve got PTSD on your plate, even if…

I think every takedown makes the next takedown a little easier. Eventually the takedowns start happening earlier, and the consequences of sexual harassment discourages more people from committing it, and encourages more people to speak up.

Your experience had a positive outcome. Great. My experience when I reported, and the experiences of other people I know, most definitely did not, therefore I have a bit more empathy for the people who are dealing with this kind of garbage. It’s hard to be alone, scared, and ashamed and facing unemployment and worse.…

It was a punch in the gut and a slap in the face. It felt like being victimized all over again. A confirmation of everything I had told myself about why I didn’t pursue charges, why I didn’t speak up, why I internalized my hate.

They had everything to lose and nothing to gain. Imagine how it must be to victims everywhere when America voted in an abuser to the highest office in the land.

I just read the New Yorker piece, and the common thread from everyone interviewed was how dirty and ashamed all the women felt. And that’s in their own head with the story NOT front page news. It takes a really strong person to want to tell that kind of story and have that kind of feeling publicly.