Perilous Thoughts

Don't Tell

Hmmm, my friend and I just started talking about how families hide the little secrets regardless of the effect it will have on the victim. The family members, in particular, that sit back and cover up child abuse or simply ignore it for the sake of the family name.

Those people may as well be child abusers themselves. They are the very ones that put the nail in the coffin of an abused child's recovery back to at least a tid bit of sanity. Trust will never be the same, nor will this child ever view relationships or sex again, but at least she can know that somebody, somewhere, somehow, loved her enough to protect her. That's worth the phone call that can be made anonomously to an 800 number. It wont even cost a dime. Just a second of your time.

If you know of some child, or even suspect them being abused, make the call. Don't be a victim like that child is. Don't listen to that diabolical voice in your mind making a pact with the devil saying, 'Ssssh, don't tell nobody.'