Yes. In our outrage over the covered up child abuse and the hypocrisy, the actual victims are forgotten. I look at their photos and think how awful they must feel. Contrary to others, I do believe some instances of child sexual abuse carry less traumatic impact than others. In the police interviews, most of the girls didn't actually even remember and were simply made aware that he had been doing thus in their sleep, or had vague recollections of him removing a blanket. Only one child cried about it.
That at doesn't make Josh's acts any less predatory and despicable. But it does suggest the possibility that some of the girls at least are now experiencing more trauma than they did then and those who were damaged are now having their private wounds publicly reopened.
Add to that the blame they may be feeling in their culture which tends to blame women/girls, at least in part, for their own abuse due to immodesty, not wearing a dress properly, etc., and it's even worse.
I feel so sad about that. And conflicted about the revelation of this explosive news.
Agree. This is the saddest part perhaps that the girls put it behind them, of their own volition, and it is being dragged up and only now traumitizing them and did not before .
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