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Not necessarily. Unfortunately if a child is being sexually abused by someone they know, a father figure even, the child might 'feel' something is not right about that, but they could also at the same time think it's normal for them to do that to the child. After all this is a trusted adult, and if they're doing this to me (the child might think), then it must be normal. This is one of the ways sexual abuse messes with a child beyond the physical part. It completely messes up their brain, trust, sense of normalcy - everything. Some sexual predators are so skilled they can even make the child think the child wanted it and enjoyed it. Even if the child would feel something was 'off' about that, the child would internalize that and not necessarily see the abuser as the cause - so they also wouldn't be noticeably uncomfortable around them. Another possibility is the child can have learned to accept the situation in order to survive and be numb or resigned.