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by diamondhandle 1888 days ago
It’s way, way more common than you’d ever want to believe.

Here’s a starting point, from one very repressed culture where the act of going to the police puts great shame on your family and turns you into an outcast:

> There seems to be no sign of decline in the number of sexual abuse cases against children. According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, child consultation centers nationwide responded to 2,077 cases of child sexual abuse in fiscal 2019, up 2.75 times from fiscal 2000, when the Act on the Prevention, etc. of Child Abuse went into force. In 1,056 of these cases, the perpetrators were biological fathers.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210322/p2a/00m/0na/01...

Please, listen to children and believe their stories.