katz4life
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Hi, I haven't been around here in many months.
Something has been bothering me lately and need to know the answers about this very sensitive topic.
I can't exactly tell you what led me to bring the topic up like this.
I have some kind of difficulty finding the specific answers on google but I read on the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child-on-child_sexual_abuse and it upsets me, I strongly disagreed with between the lines:"Even if known by adults, it is sometimes dismissed as harmless by those who do not understand the implications." It is right under Prevalence section but you may read the rest of the Wikipedia page on the subject.
I'm uncertain where and who to ask for the proper expert with the consciences to answer in a field such as this topic.
Because I have been having flashbacks of countless of childhood friends, elementary through high school friends both deaf and hearing, especially out in the real world as adults I met and made new friends with, they had shared the confessions of their sexual relationship experiences with other children, minors under 16 and adults when they were children and under 16. To the most of those friends who confided it to me but some others I don't personally know who sometimes did share it openly to others in public even in the vlogsphere and blogsphere, that they seemed not having a sign of bad trauma, depression, anxiety, suicidal, troubled personality and PTSD. That is as if they were saying it wasn't considered as a sexual abuse but they as a child was willing to do it for experiment, curious and pleasure with other child/ren and minors (preteen/teenagers) and even adults by without coercion. Most of us and everyone do aware very well that is so against the law.
Check the U.S. age consent law
Ages of consent in North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So, bottom line the biggest problem is that when those friends told me their stories, how come they have never reported to the authorities, the teachers, to the counselors, or the parents? It is like, very obvious that the perpetrators are still free out there (unfortunately, I happen to know most of them personally that did it with my friends and they also happen to be my friends as well). It just angers me because it is not equally compared with registered sex offenders only for those victims that do not consider themselves as a sexual abuse victim if there were no coercion such as rape involved let alone the statutory rape.
The question is, when they (now all adults, of course) told me about their sexual experiences with other children, teens, and adults years ago, should I report to the police? I think that it is impossible but it made me to ask a good question because the victims of sexual abuse scandal at Catholic schools, Deaf schools and the church had to come out and reported to name the perpetrators years later then eventually sued them.
Something has been bothering me lately and need to know the answers about this very sensitive topic.
I can't exactly tell you what led me to bring the topic up like this.
I have some kind of difficulty finding the specific answers on google but I read on the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child-on-child_sexual_abuse and it upsets me, I strongly disagreed with between the lines:"Even if known by adults, it is sometimes dismissed as harmless by those who do not understand the implications." It is right under Prevalence section but you may read the rest of the Wikipedia page on the subject.
I'm uncertain where and who to ask for the proper expert with the consciences to answer in a field such as this topic.
Because I have been having flashbacks of countless of childhood friends, elementary through high school friends both deaf and hearing, especially out in the real world as adults I met and made new friends with, they had shared the confessions of their sexual relationship experiences with other children, minors under 16 and adults when they were children and under 16. To the most of those friends who confided it to me but some others I don't personally know who sometimes did share it openly to others in public even in the vlogsphere and blogsphere, that they seemed not having a sign of bad trauma, depression, anxiety, suicidal, troubled personality and PTSD. That is as if they were saying it wasn't considered as a sexual abuse but they as a child was willing to do it for experiment, curious and pleasure with other child/ren and minors (preteen/teenagers) and even adults by without coercion. Most of us and everyone do aware very well that is so against the law.
Check the U.S. age consent law
Ages of consent in North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So, bottom line the biggest problem is that when those friends told me their stories, how come they have never reported to the authorities, the teachers, to the counselors, or the parents? It is like, very obvious that the perpetrators are still free out there (unfortunately, I happen to know most of them personally that did it with my friends and they also happen to be my friends as well). It just angers me because it is not equally compared with registered sex offenders only for those victims that do not consider themselves as a sexual abuse victim if there were no coercion such as rape involved let alone the statutory rape.
The question is, when they (now all adults, of course) told me about their sexual experiences with other children, teens, and adults years ago, should I report to the police? I think that it is impossible but it made me to ask a good question because the victims of sexual abuse scandal at Catholic schools, Deaf schools and the church had to come out and reported to name the perpetrators years later then eventually sued them.