AUS: Child sex abuse within families rampant

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Victoria Police wants to open a new front in the fight against family violence as frightening new data reveals a 43 per cent jump in child sex abuse cases in the past five years.

Detective Superintendent Rod Jouning, head of the Victoria Police sexual and family violence division, said the true rate of child sex abuse by family members and others known to the victim was horrifying. He said Victoria Police’s campaign to tackle family violence had encouraged unprecedented reporting of partner on partner violence, but too many child sex abuse victims were still not coming forward. Full Article

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As a victim of intrafamilial child sexual abuse, I couldn’t agree more – the forgotten area amongst all the others – and wrote the following poem:

AN ODE TO THE UNACKNOWLEDGED MAJORITY:
WITH THE CURRENT FOCUS QUITE APPROPRIATELY
ON THE ISSUE OF INSTITUTIONAL ABUSE
PLEASE SPARE A THOUGHT FOR THOSE EXCLUDED
THE UNACKNOWLEDGED MAJORITY OF THE SEXUALLY ABUSED

THE UNACKNOWLEDGED MAJORITY OF THE SEXUALLY ABUSED
ARE THOSE FOR WHOM THE ABUSE THAT OCCURRED
WAS NOT INSTITUTIONAL BUT INTRAFAMILIAL
THEIR ORDEALS TOOK PLACE IN FAMILY HOMES

SO THEY DON’T BELONG TO ANY KIND OF GROUP
THIS UNACKNOWLEDGED MAJORITY
LEFT TO BEAR THEIR BURDEN ALONE
SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY

DISCLOSURE IS A SOLO PROCESS
PITTING VICTIMS AGAINST FAMILY MEMBERS
WITH OFTEN NO WAY TO POSITIVELY PROVE
THAT ANYTHING EVER HAPPENED

SO THE VEIL OF SECRECY REMAINS FIRMLY IN PLACE
AND UNSPEAKABLE DEEDS REMAIN UNCORROBOATED
PERPETRATORS REMAIN UNPUNISHED
AND THEIR VICTIMS ALONE IN THEIR STRUGGLE

WITH NO CHANCE OF APOLOGIES OR RETRIBUTION
NO PROMISE OF RECOGNITION FOR THEIR SUFFERING
NOTHING IN PLACE FOR FUTURE PREVENTION
NO PATHWAYS FOR COMPENSATION

BUT IF THEY ARE THE MAJORITY THEN IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE
MAKING ME FEEL WE ARE MISSING THE WHOLE POINT
BECAUSE SURELY WE SHOULD BE EMPOWERING ALL CHILDREN
AND TEACHING ALL OF US TO REACH OUT TO A CHILD IN DISTRESS

SO THIS IS MY ODE TO THE UNACKNOWLEDGED MAJORITY
THOSE WHOSE ABUSE OCCURRED WITHIN THE FAMILY
NO MATTER HOW ALONE YOU MIGHT FEEL
THERE ARE MANY OF YOU, ALBEIT SPREAD WIDELY

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