| ▲ | rectang 5 hours ago |
| There's also a lot of "WHY AREN'T YOU FOCUSING ON THE MOTHER?" whataboutism in the comments, which I find appalling. The article was about something else, and who knows what her circumstances were. |
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| ▲ | Aurornis 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Most crimes like this are, sadly, committed by someone who has some connection to the family. It’s standard to investigate connections first. That’s not “appalling” to suggest, it’s just a sad reality of these crimes. They should be focusing on everyone connected to the family if known. It would be negligent not to. The confusion came from the way the article was written. They didn’t know the identity until afterward. |
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| ▲ | directevolve 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I just want to point out that there’s a huge difference between thoroughly investigating the family after abuse of this magnitude has been proven, and making parents legally culpable for any harm that comes to their children in general. We can react to the fact that mothers can do more to protect their children from abuse in many ways. We can give them better access to information and support in getting away from abusers. We can create better links between police and communities they serve. We can create more pathways for children to be exposed to healthy adult behavior and connections with healthy adults, even when the family is dysfunctional. But when we find evidence that existing supports have failed, deeply investigating why is critical. | |
| ▲ | tomnipotent 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Something like 60-70% of violent crime involves victims and offenders that know each other, and with murder and sexual assault it's 70-80%. |
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| ▲ | noufalibrahim 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| True. Damaged parents are often the kinds of people who are taken advantage of by sex offenders. I think it requires a social fix of some kind. |
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| ▲ | vasco an hour ago | parent [-] | | However damaged someone is they have a duty of care to their children. There's someone else with a blame in the story but to excuse this is very wrong. | | |
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| ▲ | PinkSheep 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You are right, the article is about: > She said at the point Homeland Security ended her abuse she had been "praying actively for it to end". You can provide your plausible suggestions as to what the family relationship looked like that the girl could neither ask her own mother for help nor was her father there for her. |
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| ▲ | rectang 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | My heart breaks for parents who learn that their children found themselves unable to confide in them about rape. |
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