The Reasons Why Victims Don’t Report Abuse

It’s not that it didn’t really happen…

Zita Fontaine
Nov 2 · 10 min read

I had my lucid moments when I knew how wrong it all had been. How unacceptable, how horrific, how humiliating. I knew when he was just slightly crossing a line and I was fully aware how unforgivably far he went at times. I knew the events that should have been reported — the beating, the sexual abuse… damage of property was the…

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