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MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 04:37 PM Nov 2017

Hey, Grownups! Leave Those Kids Alone!

We're not done with revelations about past sexual abuse of minors by prominent people, I'm sure. And that's a good thing. No question about it.

There are a bunch of people who are scared to death that their old victims are going to step forward. Some of them may be suprises to everyone.

Roy Moore, on the other hand? Nah, he did it. He's the type.

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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
1. Hey People, leave other people alone!
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 04:41 PM
Nov 2017

If they want you, they'll give consent. If they can't give consent (due to age, incapacitation, drunkenness, or whatever), leave them alone.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
2. Women just do not come out with these types of accusations...esp underage
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 04:41 PM
Nov 2017

When it's inappropriate, underage - it can affect you for life....I hate the way it's being dismissed as Fake News

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
3. I suspect that if every person who was once sexually abused while underaged
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 04:45 PM
Nov 2017

by an adult came forward there are many, many people who would be named as the abuser. And many of them would be people we think we admire.

I hope those victims do come forward. I hope that it makes people think twice before acting. Damn the consequences for the abusers. They richly deserve to be exposed and shunned.

I hope those abusers are quaking in their boots right now.

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
4. Moore definitely has a type..3 of those girls look like they could be sisters
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 05:33 PM
Nov 2017

wonder what Moore's sister looked like at that age...maybe it was incest on his mind

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