We have no idea what other people endure

[Castrol for a knave]

I spotted this looking at another link and it's made my blood run cold.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25547813.sussex-gi...

I hate to think we share the world with these sort of people.

Christ knows how the victim get through this. Imagine being so helpless, that every person who should protect you, is your captor and abuser. It's beyond horror.

How the police, safeguarding teams and jury personally deal with crimes such as this. I have a friend who was involved investigating such crimes, and he's almost a broken man.

[James B]

Good lord. That's a harrowing read.

We can only hope the family members get the cell with Ian Watkins old cellmates......

[Glassman]

Vile people.

Why haven't they been named? Because doing so would identify the victim?

[98elise]

Horrific. How can one family be so vile?

[ATG]

98elise said:

Horrific. How can one family be so vile?

Probably because they were all sexually abused themselves. Victims frequently become abusers. That'd explain why you've got at least three generations of abusers in one family. You've probably got at least three generations of victims too. Makes the "I hope they get bummed/murdered in prison" sentiment a bit harder to justify.

[Rough101]

This is learned behaviour going back generations.

No excuses, they can rot wherever.

[Twizy Warren]

ATG said:

Probably because they were all sexually abused themselves. Victims frequently become abusers.

This is a common myth that is often unhelpful in survivor recovery. Studies end to show about 35% of abusers were abused as a child themselves. So although there is clearly a link in some cases, its not as frequent as a lot of people think.

[Chrisgr31]

ATG said:

Probably because they were all sexually abused themselves. Victims frequently become abusers. That'd explain why you've got at least three generations of abusers in one family. You've probably got at least three generations of victims too. Makes the "I hope they get bummed/murdered in prison" sentiment a bit harder to justify.

That explanation does make sense and I am sure I have heard before about abusers doing their own abusing. You’d hope that being abused would decrease the risk of abuse not increase it, but I guess it almost normalises it.