In yesterday’s installment in this series on preventing and stopping sexual abuse,
I created three pairs of fictional scenarios. Scene A was a typical
case of ordinary parish life mishaps; Scene B was covert sexual abuse.
Today I want to explain how I crafted those pairs, and what the
hallmarks of covert abuse were that I put into all the Scene B’s.
Let’s pause here and encourage you to read up on this subject elsewhere. My analysis below isn’t based on statistical modeling, and I don’t have academic credentials to hand you. This is just me taking what I’ve seen and heard, both from my own experience with sexual abuse cases (limited) and reading and listening to the accounts of others. I’m writing what I am not because I’m the world’s expert, but because this topic is so important that you can’t just sit around hoping someone more impressive will come along and answer all the questions. I hope they will. But meanwhile, we who’ve been in the trenches just share what we know.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jenniferfitz/2015/06/three-signs-its-a-sexual-abuse-cover-up-and-not-just-an-innocent-misunderstanding/
Let’s pause here and encourage you to read up on this subject elsewhere. My analysis below isn’t based on statistical modeling, and I don’t have academic credentials to hand you. This is just me taking what I’ve seen and heard, both from my own experience with sexual abuse cases (limited) and reading and listening to the accounts of others. I’m writing what I am not because I’m the world’s expert, but because this topic is so important that you can’t just sit around hoping someone more impressive will come along and answer all the questions. I hope they will. But meanwhile, we who’ve been in the trenches just share what we know.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jenniferfitz/2015/06/three-signs-its-a-sexual-abuse-cover-up-and-not-just-an-innocent-misunderstanding/