WhoaWEDNESDAY - Judge: "...incest and paedophilia... might not be taboo anymore"

"Judge compares incest and paedophilia to past attitudes towards homosexuality, claiming they might not be taboo anymore."  Click here for the story.  July 9, 2014.

Where to begin... where to begin...  So much ignorance, so little time!  As if being sexually abused by her brother earlier in life had no impact on the abuse-survivor's decision-making with regard to men and having a child very young.  As if being 18 constitutes being a "mature adult" in normal circumstances, never mind in cases where abuse started much younger.

Wait, there's actually more.  This one is priceless:  "He went on to say that incest only remains a crime 'to prevent chromosomal abnormalities'..."

and yet more even within the same sentence:  "...but the availability  of contraception and abortion now diminishes that reason."

THEN, the judge disallowed testimony/evidence that the prior abuse happened! As if the fact of prior abuse plays no part in disempowering a victim's future relationships with their perpetrator.

Whoa! WEDNESDAY, indeed!  Ugh.



Stay tuned...
Next week's Tell TUESDAY videoblog features my sister (Evie's aunt), who was such a big part of my family's healing, but in this video shares her own family's story.  The video is recorded and ready to be uploaded.  I can't wait for you to hear it.  Her words.  Her voice.  No more silence.  No more shame.

Do *you* have a story to share?

Mags Karn
Author of The Tell: A Memoir
*** WRITING THE WRONG ***
No more silence.  No more shame.