Regardless, you may want to file a report as well. When contacting a therapist, this could be a question asked in the intake process. I do want to let you that a therapist may be required to make a report of child sexual abuse depending on the age of the older boy and your state’s mandates.
The adults involved may want to explore seeking out professional counseling for the children. Our prevention tool, Create your family safety plan will help you further design a safety plan for your family.
In fact, while your family is deciding on how to proceed, I would recommend that your son’s brother be supervised in all his interactions with all children. All adults involved should be aware of the safety plan and it should include strict supervision whenever the boys are together. It is very important that a safety plan be implemented to help protect both boys. If these conversations can focus on the need for helping both boys and keeping all children safe rather than creating a sense of blame, then all the adults involved may be able to work together to address both boy’s needs. You don’t mention your son’s half-brother’s age or whether there are other adults concerned, but it is important to make sure that all the adults who are responsible for the safety of these two boys be involved in discussions of safety and protective actions. I would add that it would be important to explore the older boy’s possible exposure to these sexual behaviors and explore his risks for being abused as well. Both boys deserve to feel safe and supported. Perhaps sharing any other observation you or others have noted that indicate that there is a risk would help in your conversations. I am also wondering if there have been any other warning signs that the older boy has shown indicating a risk to sexually offend other children. I’d like to recommend that you read our information on when a child tells about sexual abuse from our Online Help Center. Additionally, he could be afraid of getting in trouble or even of getting the person abusing him in trouble. When a child feels like the adult he loves and trusts could be becoming upset, worried, angry or even sad by the information he is sharing, he may try to back out of his story to protect the adult. It is common that a child will recant his story. Your son’s disclosure does indicate a warning sign that he is at risk for sexual abuse or is being sexually abused.ĭo Children Recant Disclosures of Sexual Abuse? A child, while often imaginative, cannot make up stories that include specific adult like sexual behaviors without having some exposure to the behaviors.
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