A sex offender who wanted to conceal his history and then-current child sexual abuse accusation from his wife at the end of last year, murdered her last January. Today, he was sentenced at Preston Court to life, serving just under 20 years separately to the abuse charges which he admitted. Read the story at The Guardian Website here.
I think this article by Srinidhi Raghavan raises some really interesting points, starting with these three reasons why it might not be as simple as good vs bad touch: “First, what is “good” touch? What is “bad”? How is a child supposed to determine this, and how do we teach them this without being broad…
As a society, we have, rightfully, tried to move away from doing those things, but we haven’t really gotten better at helping people build resiliency. Is it any wonder that we had an epidemic of anxiety, even before COVID-19? We’ve kind of left people with an uncertain world, in which anything can just randomly happen to anyone, while leaving intact our belief systems that teach us that the world is fair.
It’s not. It’s not even close, and yes part of the reason it isn’t fair is that there are bad people in power doing bad things, but even if we could rid ourselves of that as much as possible, (and we should), the world would still be a random place where random things happen, for no good reason.
There would still be natural disasters, accidents, and yes, even abuse and crime. There would still be people with disabilities, mental and psychical, and there would still be victims. Because we’re human, and being human is kind of messy and random.
That’s not going anywhere. The challenge is to find the resiliency to live our lives anyway. This is where we’ve failed too many people, and where we have failed ourselves, finding comfort in false “explanations” instead of facing the hard truths.
The Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a wide scale public inquiry into child sexual abuse, which has started in Melbourne. The BBC has the general report here and we expect to update with any further information with the BBC’s usual story aggregate lists from the same link.
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