Guardian Girl Gang Member Follow-Up Article
Following on from the BBC’s report into the abuse of teenage girls in modern English street gangs, The Guardian has followed up in print on the subject. The article is here.
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A man who had been held in jail in Spain when his wife was accused of murdering their two children, has been convicted of CSA escalating up to the rape of the same girl into adolescence. He will be sentenced in February though it remains to be seen whether his Spanish and English remand time…
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You have to see what happened for what it is. That includes seeing that it was a decision made by someone else and not something you deserved or attracted to yourself in any way. You were a child. Your abuser made a decision to abuse you sexually. That’s the truth of it.
That is the start of healing.
I love that this story is being told for a number of reasons. First, and foremost, I think it’s important that people understand how child abuse can lead to very serious issues around relationships and intimacy. Not all of those issues will look like this, a massive fear of intimacy that leads to trying to…