How to help an abused girl?
My boyfriend of many years has a little half-sister, age 12. We've always gotten along brilliantly, as far as I care she might be my own sister, and she evidently trusts me, too.
Recently she told us (first me, then my boyfriend, in several instalments, it was obviously not easy for her but I'm shortening this story a lot) that she was raped at age 8. Repeatedly. By her (and BF's) father's wife's son. Who still lives in the same house.
All adults involved -the father, her mother, and the rapists' mother, know about this. They didn't believe her at first, but the perp, when they asked him, confessed. So they ordered both to never talk about it again. (The guy is nineteen, now).
Please, someone *actually* adult, tell me what to do about this.
Is she hot by the way?
The one thing you should NOT DO is sit on it because if he has done it once he will almost certainly do it again. If not with her with some other innocent girl OR BOY!!! If you want THAT on your conscience knowing that if you had reported it it might not have happened, just ignore it. BUT, I can tell you this. HE WILL ALMOST DEFINATELY DO IT AGAIN to some one.
That young lass is going to need some counceling. She will not get it if you don't act on the information you have. That will fu ck her head up for the rest of her life. Can you live with that???
Yes it sucks, but unless you posses the ability to travel back in time (safety not guaranteed) theres not much you can do, lend your ear to her from time to time if she needs to but thats it.
hope she can get some semblance of peace from this matter.
peace JAH bless
The days when this sort of crime can be "kept in the family" are gone. Society see's it for the crime it really is and rightly so to.
I have respect for you but on this occasion I have to tell you that you are SO WRONG.
Funny you saying the days of "kept in the family" are long gone, well id like to think the days of "fanatics and bigots running around with pitchforks and torches howling for blood" are long gone too :p
As should be beating the crap of someone there intire life for one wrong doing (and yes it was WRONG, and one of the most awefull things that a person can commit)...im not here defending abusers of anysort nearly id soone jump out the window (mind you i live in a house so id probably just break something), all im saying is theres a time for beating the crap out of someone and a time to let them live the rest of theres lifes in (ever watchfull) peace.
Do you think you should be judged the rest of your life based on the worse decision you ever made? (even if it was just stealing a coockie)
peace JAH bless