OPINION: He started with indecent assault at age 12 and graduated to rape at 16. So where were the consequences?
"We cannot help him until he gets some consequences for his behaviour," was the simple assessment put to me many years ago by a specialist sexual abuse counsellor.His known career as a sex offender started at the age of 12, although we'd long held concerns about sexual behaviours between him and his much younger siblings.
His desperate parents finally gave him up, unable to ensure their younger children were safe from him, and he went to live permanently at a youth shelter.
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