To the mom that has a child that was potentially SA'd.

In NYC this is so hard to handle

I didn’t see the post but I’m praying for that family🙏🏽 Especially the mom and that she gets the village that she’s going to need to get her and her child through that situation. I lost a friend because she was going through this.. she found out her husband SA’d her teenaged daughter and she said she would leave him. When I talked to her the next time, she was making excuses for him. I encouraged her to stand up for her daughter. This time she said she would leave IF he didn’t get counseling.. I talked to her again and she was telling me that he refused counseling so she was definitely leaving. She started avoiding my calls all together and the next time she mistakenly answered me, she and her husband were at a party together and she was telling me how much fun they were having. She talked like nothing had happened. I asked if she had gotten her daughter help and she avoided the question. She’s still with him and I don’t even know if her daughter is okay because she won’t talk to me..

Saying all of that to say what I wish I could say to her.. Ladies, PLEASE GET THOSE KIDS THE HELP THEY NEED and protect your kids at all costs! You don’t want that child’s feelings to go invalidated in that situation and brushing it under a rug hoping they understand one day is worse than giving someone permission to do it. That breaks people and kids are precious and need to know they matter! It’s our job to protect them or to get them the protection they need. And even when you can’t keep them from going through it, please get them the therapy and the safe place they need to recover from it!