If, and I mean, HEAVY on the if, Bryson did this
Well..these communes and cults are rife with child SA. It permeates their daily life. On the surface, it's ok for the older men to marry young girls- and touch them, but they pretend the molestation of the boys doesn't happen and that no one is on the down low...
But these places attract child predators. If Bryson did do it...he is a victim himself, and only doing what he has been taught. Hard Stop. This child is not to blame for anything, nothing. He needs help and he needs to be out of the cult
As many of you know I was in the church of Yahweh for a short time and watched it destroy my family. Physical abuse, starvation, and SA of all kinds were common. They would not let me live with my SO because we were not legally married, so me and my stepdaughter went to on trailer and my SO and stepson went to another on the other side of the compound. Eventually they allowed us to be together because they knew I was waffling and about to to take the kids and run. (We did a month later, all of us, me my ex and kids, my three BIL and their wives and kids , we all left but the damage was done)
If I had not been there, my stepdaughter would have been gifted to someone else. If my SO had not been there, and it was just me and the kids, my stepson would have been gifted to a man to raise.
What do you think happens to those kids who are separated from their parents?
Exactly.
ETA in our case, they let us go willingly. My ex and his brothers...well, they did not want that kind of competition, four good looking men from far away with more modern ideas...and young, not old men......and me and my other SIL very obviously not being believers, they wanted us to leave too. My mother was law enforcement, and they thought we were too much trouble