Okay so I’m still watching the show from my last post about domestic violence in teen couples.

Now this family is a high society type of family and they have some issues but overall they try to remain a close knit unit.

One of the things that struck me about the show is that it’s centered around the family coming together because of the death of one of the kids. She was molested by her mother’s brother who secretly tried to do the same with another sister and has also done the same to other girls.

The mother didn’t know and oddly enough to avoid excessive scandal the uncle stayed around in the picture obviously not as closely as before the child killed herself.

The brother didn’t get prosecuted for the molestation of the daughter who died and the family tried to handle it on their own in a way.

I’ve seen this actually happen with families in other movies or shows and kind of in real life just a lesser amount of presence because I was too young to understand.

But if you as a mother had a child commit suicide due to being molested by your sibling or even a cousin would you go the legal route of having that person prosecuted although you found out about it after the fact and the proof died with your child?

Bonus question: why do you think families try to hide this and often shame the victim? I know we read here in glow about a mom who has a brother that got busted for child porn and the parents act as if it’s not a huge deal and kinda sweep the actions under the rug. So does anyone know why??

BONUS:

How do you help your child after it goes public if you went the legal route? If the didn’t take their own life and chose to stand up and fight how do you help them cope? Whether being picked on in school or random people online or in the news? I feel like going through the act and the aftermath after it’s brought to the light has to be extremely hard to deal with. Think of the publicized crimes we see on the news.