09-10-2020, 04:55 PM
(09-10-2020, 03:53 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Victims of sexual abuse often don't report it because they fear they won't be believed. They don't want other to know. They feel ashamed. In the case of Penn State, the victims were kids abused by a respected coach without witnesses in most cases. Even when there was a witness it was covered up. How would one of those kids alone get people to believe their word against Sandusky's without physical evidence?
Odds are you know at least one victim of sexual abuse and they never reported it.
With children they are usually groomed to believe that they are agreeing to have sex. The predator does not use force or threats. Instead he convinces the child that he should do it.
When McQueary caught Sandusky abusing that boy in the locker room the victim did not think he had been saved. He thought he had beencaught having sex with Sandusky and would get in trouble for it.
