Reply #121: I think part of what bugs me about this whole case is the idea that if you can just

[LiberalLoner]

abuse a kid badly enough that he or she takes forever to get up the strength to tell the truth, then you get off scot-free. It feels like a free pass to rape kids.

And from what I've read, the conviction rate of offenders is so incredibly low, it's really the safest crime anyone can commit. Andrew Vachhs wrote about that - I may have mispelled his last name. He said that there's really very little risk involved in raping your own children, that as a society we kind of wink and look away.

He has been trying to fight to change laws and to make people more aware of how abuse harms the kids and really harms all of society when the kids grow up to be dysfunctional as adults.