3-year-old suffered sexual abuse during months in immigration custody, family alleges

It matters because we can use that information to prevent further abuse

No, it matters a lot. It matters a lot that this is a systemic issue that shuffles around kids from abuser to abuser and doesn't give proper support to children who have been raped. It matters that more precautions aren't taken, when child molestation is *known* to lead to young children abusing each other later on. And yes it does matter that these abuses should never happen and that we are failing, but the 12 year old likely having also been abused is *part* of that. It's a sign of just how severe the problem is.

This is a bit of a messy issue and you really need therapy about this if you haven't gotten it. I am so sorry to hear you went through something so awful. It is of course possible for a child that hasn't been abused to abuse others, especially as they get older. You should never be expected to forgive someone who hurt you in such a way, and it was wrong for anyone to ask this of you. Regardless of if your abuser had a reason or past trauma or not, it's still entirely wrong of people to expect you to forgive him. That being said, it is much more common for children who sexually abuse others to be doing it because they were abused themselves. This does not mean that all abused children become abusers, and does not necessarily mean that all abusers were abused- just that it's far more likely there is a cycle of abuse happening, the younger the child who abuses is. This is a known problem in foster homes. The link you're posting here is not only one the website itself chose to remove, and it's not backed up by cited sources. Even your link lists having been abused as something that can cause abusive behavior, among its listed reasons. Scientific research also shows a link between children being abused (with physical violence, sexual assault, or other forms of abuse) being more likely to engage in abuse themselves. I know you've been through something horrific, and that can make topics like this difficult to handle. You should keep in mind though that your particular situation, awful and wrong as it was, does not necessarily apply to every situation in which a child has been abused- or even most of them.

Trump voters didn’t forget, they thought that was a feature not a bug.

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Remember Melania's "I don't care, do you?' jacket when visiting one of the camps accused of sexually abusing the immigrants inside? The right tried to defend it as 'talking about something else' and 'she doesn't choose her own clothes'?

Nope to a trump supporter the cruelty is the point. People in custody aren't humans to them.

And sold to shady adoption/charitable organizations. But they just said Obama/Biden built the cages so the cult said ok lemme scream that and ignore any facts or proof

Most folks who are shocked today, didn't believe the allegations back then. It wasn't until a Canadian and a German spent a few days in custody did people start getting pissed. Because, good foreigners.

Then thousands of kids were "lost", without sufficient records to know what happened to them.

I didn't know about it, I was 13 when Trump first entered office

I was assured it was perfectly normal for about a dozen 12-15 year old girls to be adopted at 2am by people in limos. That's why it wasn't a big deal *we have it on f****** video*

Why does the US have such a high number of pedophiles that kids always get molested over there? Is there something wrong with Americans that they carry that predisposition in such high numbers?

So no one's asking about why he's here? No one's asking why he's a witness? Why he was a witness to a newborn being killed after doing something that's been redacted to a 7th grader? No one's concerned? No one's interested? Okay, just checking.

If it was an agent, I think finding names would be very important.

Group of Pedophiles, Government of Pedophiles, Grand ole' Pedos, take your pick.

I cry and grieve for every kid. What the actual F*** is wrong with people

The people arguing this aren’t exactly intelligent.