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A Question of Abuse
An influential group of therapists is promoting a new scare: children who molest other children. Those who question the murky evidence are said to be in denial. But it is the kids, taken from home and given intense therapy, who might be sufferering the most.
Tony Diamond is a troubled boy. Charming and tractable one minute, he may be flailing in rage or brooding in despair the next. Tony's classwork is outstanding; he reads widely and writes winningly. In a report on Napoleon, he quotes the "battleous" (and apparently bilingual) "military genius" as uttering the famous palindrome, "Able was I ere I saw Elba." Yet he fights and disobeys at school -- and in his short life he's attended several.
Like other boys his age, 12, Tony likes Star Wars and baseball. He takes care of a small menagerie at home -- a hamster, a rabbit, and a garrulous cockatiel. But he can be mean to his sister, Jessica, one year his junior, dark and soft where he is blond and slender, slow in class where he excels. Their relationship, it seems, is fierce -- fiercely affectionate and fiercely antagonistic. One evening, they sit next to each other, playing quietly. Another time, she climbs into the car and he slaps her.
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Three years ago, in November 1993, San Diego County Child Protective Services pronounced Tony a grave danger to his sister. Jessie had told someone at school that her brother had "touched her private parts, front and back." Mandated by the 1974 Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to report any suspicion of child abuse, even by a child and even without substantiation, Jessica's elementary school called the Child Abuse Hotline. A social worker elicited a record of Tony's earlier offenses: In elementary school, he used sexual language and looked under girls' skirts; at 4, he lay on top of Jessie in the bath.
San Diego Juvenile Court charged Tony with "sexual abuse" of Jessica "including, but not limited to, touching her vaginal and anal areas...placing a pencil in her buttocks," and threatening to hurt her if she "disclosed the molest."
"It would appear from a review of the case," the social worker wrote, "that Tony is a budding sex offender." Tony was 9 years old.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat Jun. 6, 2009 4:57 PM PDT.
I was molested when I was knee high to my stepfather. Later I was molested by my halfbrother who was eight years older. That was fifty-five years ago.
There, I finally said something! It didn't help!!
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hey here's a fun story for
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon Jul. 27, 2009 10:51 PM PDT.
hey here's a fun story for all you people sitting at your computers agreeing with this article:
in kindergarten i was molested on multiple occasions by one of my classmates,
and it was NOT consensual,
and it had a BIG impact on me,
and not because my parents freaked out about it,
because when i tried to tell them they didn't even believe me.
so i ended up allowing it to happen however many more times because i thought i was just making a big deal out of nothing, since no one else seemed upset about it.
so you can take all this garbage about how sexual behaviour between same-aged kids is always okay and the only reason it causes emotional trauma is because the parents freak out about it and you can shove it.
that's absolutely ridiculous.
wouldn't it make more sense to, oh, i don't know...HELP the victims of child sexual abuse instead of trying to throw a blanket over the whole entire issue because it just makes you too damn uncomfortable?
it's people just like the author(s) of this article who looked the other way while i was being abused, and it almost literally makes me sick.
I just found out my children
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri Aug. 14, 2009 3:04 PM PDT.
I just found out my children were abused by another child, who threatened to burn them with a cigarette lighter if they told. This was not consensual, not normal, and not OK. And it is also not normal or OK for a boy to poke his sister in the genitals with a pencil, over or under her clothes.
child molesting five other siblings
Submitted by stacey (not verified) on Wed Aug. 26, 2009 11:14 PM PDT.
my 6 yr old step daughter told us a month ago that her step brothers touch her on her pee-pee and that her step dad told her not to tell any one and her mom told her she didn't care. the oldest is eight . next is two 6 year old two 4 year olds and a 2 year old. according to my step daughter all but the 2 year old has been taught to touch and " hump" eachother by the oldest. she was caught at about 2 trying to put a baby bottle up her. we have asked her several times through out the years if anyone has touched her because her behavior is some times plain like a wild animal. she is mean to my two toddler sons and has fits where she will throw herself on the floor and kick and scream. she will break things and has several times been sent home from school for her behavior. last month she confided in us and told us about it. we went to c.p.s and the courts. we went to the d.a's office and sherrif's dept. noone will do anything.i'm really worried for her as well for the other children. she is never left alone with my son's and we have been very clear that this kind of behavior is not okay and will not be tolorated here. we keep a very close eye on her here. she is destructive. i went and baught all new clothes for school and the first day of every out fits she would go to school and get the scissors and cut holes in them and tear her shoes apart. it is imberrassing to go in public with her. she barks at people and is very attracted toboys/ men. she always tries to talk to them and has even walked off before in the store trying to get attention from a man. yet she wont have anything to do with little girls.and after all this c.p.s said there is nothing they can do because a 6 year old is an uncredible witness. WHATTTTTT?? are you serious. the judge denied twice to have her taken out of the home. and this is the kicker, the step dad is going to school to be a child phsycologist. they have been investigated by c.p.s at least eight times that we know of.these children are allowed around other children every day and left alone with them. there is no telling how many little lives have been effected by this family.what do you do when you know you are looking in the eyes of a possible adult sex offender and noone wants to get involved. we put her into counseling and mother took her out.what do you think? do you think this is behavior of a child being molested or is it just curiousity?/?
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abuse
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon Oct. 19, 2009 4:30 AM PDT.
I have a friend who's 5 year old daughter was molested by an 11 year old boy of friends of theirs. My friend and her husband went over to their friends house the next day after it happened to discuss this with the boys parents. The boy has adhd and is on meds as well in counseling. They said that they would talk to his therapist about it. Is there any legal obligation on my friend and her husband to report this incident to the authories? She said that she and her husband were handling the situation. What if they did handle the situation without taking any legal action? Please let me know.
I think you friends are
Submitted by RossW (not verified) on Wed Dec. 2, 2009 12:01 AM PST.
I think you friends are handling it the best way and has a better chance of helping their kid. I was like that as a kid and feel guilt and my parents found out and treated me like (at 11 or 12) that I was trying to turn her into a whore. I haven't done anything like it again but I going to counseling because of it in my 40s.
