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In Reply to: Re: Anderson Cooper 360 posted by Peter S. Frouman on January 19, 2005 at 06:19:12:
I did not manage to see CNN last night, but I saw a program on MSNBC called Innocence Lost.
Many cases of children grown up in ISOLATED COMMUNITIES (Safa Passage Foundation comes to mind) like the Amish, and what it took to come out and prosecute the abusers especially when it happened in one's own family.
One girl who was raped by her brothers since she was 12 had all her teeth pulled out by her mother as a punishment, so she would "keep quiet." It took her some years to escape, tell her story and eventually find some justice, but she said she could not see her little sister anymore and was worried about her being abused as well.
Then there were cases of sexual molestation on the part of a doctor with young patients. It took literally YEARS for the victims to finally create enough critical mass to find some justice.
His license was revoked but he did not go to jail!
It seems to me the fight is long and hard in bureaucratic institutions to try to bring anybody to justice for sexual abuse, but if one is persistent eventually some justice is done. However, the process is extremely slow, the victims are always vilified and accused of lies and exaggeration, and the justice system does not have severe punishments for such offenders.
