I think your right, that issues like this horrible as they are need to be examined and understood. There is no way we can try to prevent things like this happening if we don't have an understanding of why and how these things happen. Coming to that understanding is going to be grim as fuck but it needs doing.
How can we protect kids or anyone from something we don't understand? We can't. if we don't make attempts to understand and recognise when, where and how children are at risk of abuse then we are all at risk. Kids will get hurt, essentially that means were all going to suffer somewhere down the line because of it. That infliction of trauma will have massive repercussions; obviously on the individual but then possibly on the community and on society as a whole.
Damn nearly everyone in jail right now will have suffered abuse at some point in there childhood, they have been traumatised and then go on to traumatise other people, there's a transmission of trauma that seems to spread like a disease does. Most people experience trauma and after can go about their business without hurting anyone, but there's a significant minority that don't and that is a risk.
the effects of trauma especially from childhood are potentially massively devastating to the individual and to society as a whole. We must take child abuse as a threat to our survival as a species, because it is.
To respond to that threat we need to recognise and understand it, we can't hide from it. It will be horrible to look at but shying away from that confrontation will hurt our kids and it will ultimately hurt us all.
I think it is brave and wise to look at all the grim details and get that knowledge. Respect
