Why is Sexual Abuse Swept Under the Rug?

Why?  I've never understood how a mother can allow a boyfriend or husband to rape her daughter or their daughter?  Is it because that motherly instinct to protect her daughter is not there when it comes her significant other?  Instead of being a mother-daughter relationship where the mother protects the daughter, it becomes a female-female competition where the mother kicks the daughter out of the house if she's a teenager or if she's under the age of 12, then she just turns her head or sends her to live with another relative, but yet keeps the man around.  I don't understand this.

I have been sexually abused, but it wasn't by a family member.  My mother was and still is a devout Christian.  She separated from my father when I was  child and never remarried.  Never even had a boyfriend.  She dedicated her life to living for God and taking care of her children.  But because I was sexually abused, I know what it's like to feel vulnerable, confused, curious, etc all of those things that experience.  So I empathize with young girls and women who have suffered sexual abuse, especially those who experienced it from a family member.

It seems as if sexual abuse is not really taken serious in the country.  Even though, many people will agree how immoral, disgusting, and wrong it is, actions show otherwise.  I've read news stories on the internet of how pedophiles get only a few months in jail.  Well, I do know this one man who was sentenced to prison for abusing a boy under the age of ten.  That was over ten years ago, and I believe he is still in prison.

Stealing someone's innocence and essence is one of the most heinous things you can do.   I honestly have no sympathy for rapists and pedophiles.  Absolutely none.  Women, we have to take care of ourselves.  We are the nurturers of the world, and if we are not mentally, emotionally and spiritually, and even physically healthy, how are we going to give our best to our husbands and children.  I know it can be hard to cope when we have so much resentment against family member for past sins, especially if it's a parent that was supposed to protect us but didn't, but now we have to look out for ourselves and move past that.  I'm not saying we have to forget, but we have to find the support and strength to move on and so that we can heal.

No matter how much we're suffering as a victim, the perpetrator is always suffering, even if the suffering is silent.

I am the dark mystique.