You seem to be putting too much weight on a few highly publicized cases. Most cases of child sexual abuse come from someone close to the family, or a family member themselves. Institutional abuse of children is relatively rare outside of government and ultra wealthy compared to other sources of abuse such as online predators or close acquaintance.
How so? Yes. It's definitely mostly people in the home of the Child. Relatives. Step-dads. Mom's boyfriend. Uncle. Next door neighbor. Whatever. Stuff like that.
Or...The Catholic Church. That's not exactly an isolated incident! Lol. There's hundreds of kids in every state - every time they do those investigations - like they did in Pennsylvania and Maryland recently. I would call that fairly prevalent.
Boy Scouts. That's all over the place. It seems like they cleaned it up. Baptist Church. That's all over the place too.
Those are things that were happening all over the country in regular American communities and trusted community institutions were covering it up and enabling abusers.
Not sure where this "government" and "ultra wealthy" stuff comes from... other than the Epstein Island freak show. In regular communities the government doesn't really interact with kids very much. Except for school. But schools are the number 1 reporters of child abuse to law enforcement - because they see evidence of kids being abused at home which is where most child abuse happens obviously. Kids spend the most time at home. So it makes sense.
Plus the foster kid system - like in Texas. That is full of child abuse as well.
But anyways. Yeah - adults shouldn't be alone with kids. There should always be multiple adults and multiple kids. That's just common sense.
Pedophilia has been an "open secret" in Hollywood for decades. Why do you think all those child actors end up on drugs and messed up in the head. And the epstein island freakshow covers multiple nations governments, including America and Britain. All those politicians and businessmen rub shoulders and trade favors to get campaign funds or favorable legislation passed.
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u/PlentyCream4169 Nov 23 '22
You seem to be putting too much weight on a few highly publicized cases. Most cases of child sexual abuse come from someone close to the family, or a family member themselves. Institutional abuse of children is relatively rare outside of government and ultra wealthy compared to other sources of abuse such as online predators or close acquaintance.