escargot
Disciple of Marduk
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Unfortunately, it's quite easy to explain.*
It went on for 25 years, from when the daughters were 8 & 10.
Assuming that it stopped a couple of years ago, that makes the start of the abuse about 1981.
Back then, children frankly weren't believed when they alleged familial sexual abuse. Even if these two girls had felt able to speak up, they wouldn't have had anyone close and reliable to talk to, as their father moved the family around to isolate them.
As they grew older, the girls had children of their own to think of and he was able to manipulate them further by threatening their children in various ways - by saying that they'd be taken into care, or even by saying he'd harm them if outsiders found out.
Also, he'd have made sure they knew that incest was illegal and would tell them that they'd be seen as consenting and arrested with him and sent to prison, and their kids would be taken away and adopted, and so on.
Over the years, the daughters would find over and over again that their father could do whatever he wanted, as it seemed nobody would stand up for them.
I'm quite sure that this is going on in another family round the corner from one of our dear readers, this very day.
In fact, it happened on my street some years ago. A man who'd been having sex with his two daughters, who were in their early 20s and had both had children by him, was eventually locked up.
Sadly, some of my neighbours blamed the daughters themselves, as they were eventually 'old enough to say no'.
* I hold a Master's degree in criminology so I know whereof I speak.
It went on for 25 years, from when the daughters were 8 & 10.
Assuming that it stopped a couple of years ago, that makes the start of the abuse about 1981.
Back then, children frankly weren't believed when they alleged familial sexual abuse. Even if these two girls had felt able to speak up, they wouldn't have had anyone close and reliable to talk to, as their father moved the family around to isolate them.
As they grew older, the girls had children of their own to think of and he was able to manipulate them further by threatening their children in various ways - by saying that they'd be taken into care, or even by saying he'd harm them if outsiders found out.
Also, he'd have made sure they knew that incest was illegal and would tell them that they'd be seen as consenting and arrested with him and sent to prison, and their kids would be taken away and adopted, and so on.
Over the years, the daughters would find over and over again that their father could do whatever he wanted, as it seemed nobody would stand up for them.
I'm quite sure that this is going on in another family round the corner from one of our dear readers, this very day.
In fact, it happened on my street some years ago. A man who'd been having sex with his two daughters, who were in their early 20s and had both had children by him, was eventually locked up.
Sadly, some of my neighbours blamed the daughters themselves, as they were eventually 'old enough to say no'.
* I hold a Master's degree in criminology so I know whereof I speak.