Softball Bat wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 11:30 am So, I don't know that your numbers really mean very much
You are absolutely right, the score keeping in this thread does not tell the full story. From my prior employment, this is an issue that I'm all too familiar with.
By far, the perpetrators of these crimes are in the home or close to the home. Step fathers, mom's new boyfriend, uncles, next door neighbors, and so on --- that's the vast majority of it.
Literally, it is happening every week in every county and parish in the country. Makes me sick, but that is the reality.
The abuse done by relatives does not get prosecuted nearly as much as it should. More often than not, it will be handled via divorce and then a loss of custody.
But look around your neighborhood. Yeah, it is happening there. And everywhere else.