I spent the last hour having lunch with my sis, who came back from a workshop on child abuse yesterday, and was determined to share all the morbid little stories and details she'd learnt. So exuberant was she that I suppressed the odd mixture of hate and nausea churning within, and gulped down the tasteless lunch whilst she chattered away.
Abused children who decide to tell get to relive their trauma at least 20 times telling the stories to adults who may or may not listen to them.
The story of the mum who couldn't stop crying when her son told her that he had been molested - until the son grew so fed up that he never told her anything else anymore.
Crooks that deserve a million deaths who go by a "standard procedure" of getting the parents' trust, the children's trust, and manipulation of innocent minds to save their [insert string of profanities] arses.
The complicated feeling of guilt of the children who convict the offenders - they may actually like the paedophiles, just not their actions.
The story of the pastor/priest who got sacked from church because he was caught molesting/raping (I'm not sure) the disabled and children. The case was hushed up for the church's reputation, and this bastard went out and opened a shelter home. And he is still AT LARGE because noone is speaking up.
So, if you know of any wrongdoings upon children (in fact - of any wrongdoings at all, but I'm going to be less ambitious and just focus on children) please listen to them. Support them. Then make the bastards sorry that they ever laid their hands upon them. (Legal means is preferred - as much as I would like to inflict bodily harm)
Visit P.S. The Children for more information.
And I'm labelling this "power-of-one" because I believe everyone can make a difference.
