I learned a statistic in class this past week that I thought I'd share. Studies indicate that when a child says that he or she is being hurt or sexually taken advantage of in some way, 97% of the time it's the truth. Children may recant, try to take back their accusation, for many reasons during the painful process that occurs after they speak up, but very rarely does this denunciation of their initial claim actually mean that the claim was false.
So any time a kid actually says that they're being abused, take it very very seriously no matter how out of character it seems for the accused.
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