Dark Side of Child Molestation

INTRODUCTION

Literally, child molestation is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child molestation include asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities (regardless of the outcome), indecent exposure of the genitals to a child, displaying pornography to a child, actual sexual contact against a child, physical contact with the child's genitals, viewing of the child's genitalia without physical contact, or using a child to produce child pornography. (Wikipedia.com)

Legally, child molestation: is a crime involving a range of indecent or sexual activities between an adult and a child, usually under the age of 14. In psychiatric terms, these acts are sometimes known as pedophilia (http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com)

There are several degrees to child molestation, but child rape which is characterized by penetration is by far the most troublesome of all child molestation cases and it has also been the one that has the most attention in the book of history.

Child molestation (aka child rape) is as old as the history of the world; it's been around for as long as human history and as long as mankind existed on the face of the planet earth.

In the old days there was little or no thought about the danger of child molestation and the harm it does to the child both physically and emotionally. Thank goodness for better thinking human beings, there is a lot that can be done in this day and age, however, several other cultures around the world still sees this as a stain on their dignity and pride themselves in having a family with no blemish, so they always leave the issue untouched when it happens and they always expect the child to move past it.

Can a child that is molested move past the event? The answer is no, a molested child can never and ever move past it, it's like a bad plague that sticks with you forever. It does not leave you regardless of what you do or how hard you try to move past it.

The Story

When I was a child I lived with my maternal grandparent, they owned a 4 family home in the bustling city of Ojodu-Ikeja on the outskirt of Lagos state in Nigeria, where we occupied one of the apartments and they rented out the rest. One of the tenants was Mr. and Mrs. Abdul and they had a granddaughter named Amina, she was the same age as me. One of the other 2 flats (as we call apartments in that part of the world) was occupied by 2 guys they were twins one is named Taye while the other is Kenny, looking back now, I think they should be nothing less than 23 years old back then.

Amina is a very pretty little girl and that is evident by the way she look now (22 years later) she is like a goddess. I can remember when we were still little a lot of people will commend God for her