Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own for Reporting Child Sexual Abuse

[MysticPhD]

This unfortunate syndrome is symptomatic of closed communities. The shunning is not usually to protect the perpetrator . . . it is to enforce the protection of the community from outside interference (in the military it is called going outside the chain of command). Wanting to take care of your own is not an unusual characteristic of closed communities . . . and would be the only thing that could make their actions remotely understandable. The true tragedy is that apparently they are NOT preventing or punishing the perpetrators within the community . . . or it would not have been necessary to go outside for enforcement.

[~HecateWhisperCat~]

[quote=MysticPhD;24253000]This unfortunate syndrome is symptomatic of closed communities. The shunning is not usually to protect the perpetrator . . . it is to enforce the protection of the community from outside interference (in the military it is called going outside the chain of command). Wanting to take care of your own is not an unusual characteristic of closed communities . . . and would be the only thing that could make their actions remotely understandable. The true tragedy is that apparently they are NOT preventing or punishing the perpetrators within the community . . . or it would not have been necessary to go outside for enforcement.[/quote]
Which is why sexual abuse still goes on because often parties prefer to remain ignorant rather than admit it happens. Various reasons from economic,to generational, to belief that it's normal because it happened to the parent play a factor.