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ParanoidObsessive posted...

There's an argument to be made that it's worse. At least with murder the suffering is over quick. With rape and sexual abuse, you're condemning someone to suffer for the rest of their life.

I was married for several years to a survivor of child sexual abuse. Neither of us felt it would have been better if she'd been murdered as a child.

In fact several of the women I came to know in my life had stories to tell like that. Even when I was a child, I knew a girl of my own age (7 or 8) who one day told me about the man who "took her into the woods", but I was young enough and naively innocent enough to not understand what that meant. I have a horrible suspicion that abuse may be a lot more common than most of us would expect or like to believe.