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Child safety advocates demonstrated at the Apple Store this month in New York\u2019s Grand Central Terminal.Credit…Jeenah Moon for The New York Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once again, agruably the most important investigative journalist in the world, Michael H. Keller, has, with all due credit to The New York Times, made it impossible for you to avert your eyes, for society to continue it’s most pernicious avoidance, from child sexual abuse. The writer here designates Keller as such above because he is investigating and writing about the most horrific, damaging, unspeakable reality that as he put it in his original piece five years ago, is the “ugly mirror” society refuses to look into. We’ve followed and commented on this work from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keller’s work in several pieces over the past year has focused “on parental involvement in the exploitation.” The worst, most insidious, single largest segment of abuse, from incest to selling their children’s sexual abuse to perpetrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This may be the worst to read, and the most important, of all his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mother’s sexually abusing their children live, online, streaming on demand to predators world wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this investigation, the victims of their own mothers are usually daughters. But make no mistake, the abuse of boys is for all practical purposes just as bad, by mothers, fathers, and others. More and more recognized every day now, as common sense instucted all along. UNICEF’s most recent statitistics of the hundreds of millions of abused children, showed 1 in 5 girls and women, 650 million, and about 1 in 6 boys and men, 530 million, alive today, have been subjected to sexual violence as children. It’s hard for girls and women or boys and men to come forward for many reasons–fear, shame, psychological dependence and many other things. But many experts indicate it’s harder for boys and men to come forward, because, among other things, the socially imposed definitions of masculinity. We’re approaching virtual parity in reporting of this torture, regardless of gender. The same is true of adults. Violence against women is widely known. But according to the CDC, about one in three men have experienced physical violence, sexual violence, or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime. The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) reports that 46% of all intimate partner violence victims are men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intergenerational and other factors as tie-through-lines between these various facts have been reported and commented on here for years. The bottom line is that whoever has or decides to inflict the power of violence can be related to many things, but the abuse of power knows no gender, racial, ethnic, religious, political or other limits. Harm to the victims is just that, harm. And it cannot be underlined enough that children have no power and are always the victims, and only victims, one hundred percent, of the abuse committed against them. As has been said here many times, well over a billion child victims of abuse and neglect every year defines us as the most brutal and self destructive species imaginable, which unless it changes, will doom us all. As noted at length before, even though this atrocity has been going on through the ages, the accumlated damage to so many and all the social implications involved become unsustainable and fuel the social disintegration we are experiencing at a time of maximum acceleration of major issues of planetary survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investigation by Keller focuses on mothers and women sexually abusing their own daughters, live on camera for the world to see as it occurs. Male predators are the focus of the consumers of this unimaginable hell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea that mothers, whose essential instincts are supposed to be to protect their children, are the primary perpetrators of sexually abusing their children, is too much for a normal mind to comprehend or stomach. Added to this is the dimension Keller and colleagues have focused on like no others for five years–the enabling role, to put it mildly, of the tech companies in an online abuse context that has increased child sexual abuse exponentially, by now to hundreds of millions of crimes a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the same day (in print today, December 15, in the Sunday New York Times Magazine) the Times posted probably the most incisive, intelligent, multi-dimensional story on the dymanics of incest ever written, of a mother enabling the sexual abuse of her daughter by her partner. Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize winning author who died in May, was one of the best, and best known, writers of her time. Within weeks, her daughter, Andrea, told the story of her sexual abuse by Munro’s life partner and the enabling of it by her mother (who it is posited was sexually abused as a child herself), who instead of protecting her daughter, used the abuse as fodder for her novels as if she were the ultimate child advocate shining light on the intracies of the damage and delusion involved with incest and child abuse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrea had been trying to tell her story for years, to her mother, her father, her mother’s biographer and others, only to be met with re-victimization, even when believed–the sickness of families, groups and society at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you don’t read these two articles, fully, attentively, immersing yourself in them, and apply what you learn to protecting children, then you are part of the problem. They are that fundamental and important. Fully taking the deep-dive is a liberating experience, as horrible as it is, because being in reality, in the end, is always infintely better than the alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On These Apps, the Dark Promise of Mothers Sexually Abusing Children<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Michael H. Keller<\/a>, Decembder 8, 2024, The New York Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch \u2014 and direct \u2014 criminal behavior.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael H. Keller has been investigating online child sexual abuse for five years and has focused the past year on parental involvement in the exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[The following are from graphics at the start of the article.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Users warned of child exploitation in reviews of smartphone apps.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n