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So true. As a survivor of child sexual abuse, I learned in counseling that 3 of 5 girls have been abused by age 18 and 4 out of 7 boys. Sexual abuse is epidemic in the USA
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@paninid Love this. What is this from?
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@paninid I've been SAd twice, once at *thirteen* and once just about two years ago. Almost every woman and queer person I know has their own stories of it.
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@paninid I was 4.
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@paninid I've been SAd twice, once at *thirteen* and once just about two years ago. Almost every woman and queer person I know has their own stories of it.
I literally conceal-carry a bayonet for that reason, cuz after having lost a good friend to a rapist who murdered her I chose to make shure I'll not become a victim myself.
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@thezenlady @dianea @paninid not just in the USA, it's a global phenomenon.
#CSA is just being scientifically studied in the USA and EU in terms of prevalence.
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I was groomed online during my early teens by a man who was in his late 50s. He was 58, I was 12.
I struggled with identity from a young age; he inserted himself very neatly into my life, casting himself as a mentor figure who could help me 'figure things' out. The entanglement went on for years, until, I suppose, I outgrew his affection.
For me, the damage was emotional in nature; shame, guilt, love; a sort of weaponized attachment.
He worked for NASA; he was married, had several children. He was a well respected professional, who existed invisibly within his community. He coached and ref'd in a girls softball league (a fact that still bothers me to this day.)
I am sure I am not the only one he groomed; that his victims were both male and female. I am sure that others went through much worse than what I did. He never faced any sort of judgment or accountability.
Reading through some of the emails in the Epstein files--not even all of the police reports or tips, just what they said in their own words--what these men AND women did--how they laughed at their victims, treated them as disposable...
The only word to describe the rage I feel is 'divine.' It is increasingly obvious that the systems of power globally rewarded them for their evil; that their embrace of these evil impulses was not a byproduct of their status and power, but a prerequisite for it. Their hunger gave their masters leverage of them, which in turn gave their masters power and control over the rest of us.
The Epstein files are like a drumbeat in my head that I have to work very hard not to think about; which is all the more frustrating b\c I think it's something that EVERYONE should be thinking about and talking about constantly. The existence of these predators, the global reach of their network--the implications that has for how thoroughly our political parties and governments are compromised--are mind boggling.
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@thezenlady @dianea @paninid not just in the USA, it's a global phenomenon.
#CSA is just being scientifically studied in the USA and EU in terms of prevalence.
I suspected that CSA was worldwide but I am only familiar with the numbers from the USA and those were numbers from back in the 1990s - newer data may show it is even worse as more people acknowledge their abuse.
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@paninid me too
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@thezenlady @dianea @paninid precisely that.
- Previously victims were either gaslit or otherwise silenced.
