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by TylerE 23 days ago
The vast majority of child sexual abuse is committed by family members, not strangers.
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Well yeah, but that's just selection bias. We shouldn't take precautions around strangers because it's more likely that daddy will rape you?
That’s terrible: that there are bad people in the world and sometimes they’re in your own family.

A bit of searching suggests that it’s more often acquaintances than family, but you have to consider what goes unreported to LE I guess, tho hard to be sure: https://rainn.org/facts-statistics-the-scope-of-the-problem/...

What drives people to do this? It’s so crazy.

Anecdotally it seems a lot of teachers are involved in this.

But strangers definitely seem the minority.