Until tonight, talking about this situation with a friend, a long buried painful memory arose. Why it took so long, I don't know. When I was 12 or 13, a trusted counselor of our Youth church camp, Sunday School Teacher and someone loved by all the kids.. tried to sexually molest me. I was able to tell her "No, that I didn't like it" and she took it ok. But I wonder to this day, how many other girls this happened to over the years and how many others weren't able to tell her no. I never told anyone, because I believed no one would believe me. I understand how these boys must have felt and are feeling. When it is someone like this woman was...Even if an adult would have believed me, the other kids would have ostracized me, and I had a hard enough time as it was fitting in, because I was a"nerd" and not part of the "family" or the "in crowd"
For years afterward, I lived with guilt, partly for what she did to me, but also for not telling, because she had a daughter, and I often wondered if she hurt her daughter and after I became a mother I agonized over this. I could only pray and ask God to forgive me, for not doing something then as a child.
As children,we feel so helpless- the statute of limitations should NEVER RUN OUT on PEDIOPHILES