On Sexual Abuse By A Family Member
After telling them about my sexual abuse at the hands of a family member:
“It happened twenty years ago, get over it already. People deal with all sorts of stuff. So what if he did things to you. If you didn’t want it to happen, you should’ve told somebody”.
When I spoke to the police:
“If you report, it’ll rip this family apart, and it’d most likely wreck us. You can’t do that. We will have to protect him. Prison and people who touch kids isn’t a safe place.”
After the police spoke to them:
“He is our son too. We have to protect him (abuser) as well as you (victim).”
Bit dark, but it’s my reality.