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“She would say to me all the time, ‘I forget that I’m talking to a child’,”
I keep seeing this sentence, or a very similar one: "you are very/too mature for your age". I wonder if most abusers kind of need to justify the abuse in the same way.
Or are they immature themselves.
This one, I can't remember what study it was but something like half of all child sexual abusers were not attracted to children but instead had very stunted social skills (usually disabled or otherwise mentally ill) and struggle to connect with anyone with more advanced social needs than children. This results in them praying on the most vulnerable which is usually children. Seems to fit the article well as she seemed to like working with special needs or abused children