It’s one of the hardest things for a parent or carer to wrap their head around, witnessing a child display sexualised behaviours towards another child. The instinct is to minimise, to explain it away with a nervous laugh and say, “They’re just curious,” or “It’s normal at that age.”
But here’s the ...
Before I became a police officer, I didn’t know much about child sexual abuse. It just wasn’t something people talked about when I was a child growing up or as I became a parent myself.
I joined the WA Police before my daughter had turned 2-years-old and she grew up with me in the blue uniform, hel...
I recently spoke with a mother who reached out to me because her 5-year-old child had disclosed sexual abuse -Â not from an adult, but from another 5-year-old child.
Let’s just pause there.
Because this is the part no one warns you about.
No one tells you what to do when the harm doesn't come from...
