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What did you see?

Posted by Blondie on November 25, 2003 at 21:23:18

One thing that has been on my mind quite a bit of late is the amount of child abuse (physical or sexual) that ex-member FGs saw. Until now I have been hesitant to ask this for the simple reason that, in many places, "Failure to report a crime is a crime." I am not asking this question to assign blame but think it would be extremely beneficial to SG ex-members, like myself, to know how much abuse you all saw or heard about through the FG "grapevine". For many of us, asking our parents this type of question gets a, "I never saw that" or "I had no idea that was happening" type response. Surely we of the SG are not the only ones who remember.