I can't seem to understand why a grown man can get away with sexually abusing a young teen girl and get away with it. I realize the reason given which was she won't talk and testify against the man but really why isn't my word as an adult she turned to good enough to press charges against him. The teenage years are hard enough to make it through without some man she looked at as an uncle and someone she could trust. What teenage girl stops to put 2 and 2 together about someone she loves and trust before she is sucked into his sick trap? I experienced to hardest point in my life while this took place not that it's anything compared to what she went through at such a fragile time in a girls life. She of course turned cold hearted on me for endng the closest thing to real love she felt from a man since her father passed 6 years prior. I ending up being the bad guy and the perpatrator walked with nothing but what he still calls rumors. She was made to look like a teenage girl who had a crush on him and made it all up. How can the system just simply say without her testimony you have no case? Are they serious? How can they sleep at night? Here we have a teenage girl who really believes she is in love with a man who has a daughter one year younger than her and he is more than twice her age. Then from this experiance the teenage girl has come to realize that she is no longer attracted to guys her age and has now figured out a way to be with grown men and once it is exposed she can plead the 5th and another sick pervert walks free and clear. I just can't understand why this is over looked.
When the system fails a teen girl
By inspiredmother78 - Posted on June 7th, 2008
When abused children are too afraid to speak up, there should be some mandate that can bypass needing that testimony. They already know the truth right? There's always a way to find evidence to prove what happened.
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Mind Control is Easier Than You Think
All truths are easy to understand once discovered; The point is to discover them ~Galileo
I ran across this article the other day while researching in response to another person's comment on incest. Our society has a lot of flawed assumptions about cases of sexual abuse/incest, which this article discusses. There is quite a bit more literature and research on the prevalence of sexual abuse and the development of psychological theories about it since Freud. It's compelling stuff.
Common sense is as rare as genius. ~Emerson
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Its hard as a teenager to speak up because we feel no one will believes us or worse they will look down on us. I hate hearing I'm to young to understand when i see the same things happen every day as adults do. I always feel because I'm not an adult that I will be shund or something like that for making a bad choice and no one every lets it go. How can anyone epect a teenager to speak their mind when all we here are negative things when we admit we mess up. We always hate the people who try to stop us from getting hurt and half the time they are the ones who really care about us and in time we come to realize they only did whats best for us and we see this and we love them for it. Nothing can be fixed right away it takes time for mounds to heal and when they do we don't even realize it. But the ones who help us show us love that we may not recognize at first and it may take years but showing someone you love them stays with them for a lifetime.