Tackling Child Sexual Abuse by Melissa Mahler PPI Network published on 2014-12-19T23:03:38Z Melissa Mahler and Andrew Willis take up the topic of child sexual abuse with the creator of the ACE study Dr. Felitti, survivor and advocate Matt Sandusky, survivor and filmmaker Johnna Janis, clinical & forensic psychologist Cheryl Arutt and former NFL player Al Chesley. Genre sexual abuse Comment by Karen Thompson The only way to reduce sexual abuse is to start holding those around the abuse accountable and responsible. Currently we are expecting children to do the impossible and that is to save themselves. Reinforcing the fact that children need to "disclose" will never help because that is exactly like asking a child who doesn't know how to swim to save himself from drowning in a deep pond filled with hungry alligators. Experts and professionals every day overlook and ignore the fact that there are mothers, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbors, who are purposely allowing and looking away from the signs of sexual abuse. These are selfish and often times mentally ill individuals. Mothers who know about or at least suspect the sexual abuse of their children is COMMON and yet those mothers are never ever held responsible. Most survivors will say that their mother knew or had to have suspected. That's conspiracy on the books and if the man from Penn State who saw Sandusky raping a child in the shower would have witnessed a murder and not reported it he would have been put in prison. Dottie Sandusky who adopted children for her husband to molest and heard the screams and did nothing is living her life as if she has done nothing wrong, and society and our legal system allows this. Mothers who blatently sell their child to a pedophile for drugs, money, or companionship walk away scot-free from any punishment and not even a tongue lashing. Once we start prosecuting those around the sexual abuse, those who actually help the offenders succeed at their crimes, we will start seeing a decline in sexual abuse but until then we won't. Pedophiles and child molesters depend on the "helpers", those who they know are not strong enough to stand up to them or report them. Law Enforcement and social services are even helpers because I myself have tried to report a dangerous pedophile and I was abused and mistreated by our courts and law enforcement, which only helps the offender to show the victim that speaking up is dangerous. Wake up everyone because we are and have been barking up the wrong tree. 2015-01-06T18:22:18Z
