Why do people believe the lies of child molesters?

The same can be said when you are dealing with Ritual Abuse. No one wants to believe these kinds of things happen in a “civilized” modern society. Add the “satanic” factor to it and it is no better. *sigh* But I am seeing glimmers of hope. More and more people accept what I share…when I trust enough to share. And I don’t share the worst of it.

Trauma and Dissociation

How Society Enables Child Molesters
Charles Whitfield (2001) researched the defense tactics of accused and convicted child molesters and found that of all the defenses that a child molester has at his disposal, the most effective is our collective desire not to know. We all so much want the abuse not to have happened that when an accused person says they didn’t do it, it resonates with our own personal hopes and beliefs about the incident.

Read more about this research from The Leadership Council’s post

“Society gives the image of sexual violators as weird, ugly, anti-social, alcoholics. Society gives the impression that violators kidnap children are out of their homes and take them to some wooded area and abandon them after the violation. Society gives the impression that everyone hates people who violate children. If all of these myths were true, healing would not be as challenging as it…

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