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Question About Child Abuse Laws?

When I was younger, my grandmother tried to set me up to be molested by her husband, a repeat sex offender. She had already done this to my mother, but she was about to move away - she wanted to keep his money in the picture & needed someone new. She tried to turn it into a game of having me spy on him while he used the bathroom (without his knowledge) & I remember repeatedly waking up in his bed mysteriously. Whether or not anything actually happened, I don't remember - either we managed to escape in the nick of time or I blocked it out.

My question is what can be done about it? Can she still be prosecuted in any way? Has the SOL run out? (I was around 3 or 4 yrs. when it was happening, I'm 20 now.) What would this even be called? What would I need.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Update:

Completely forgot to mention - this all happened in the state of New Jersey during the early 90's.

Update 2:

@Who: I have to correct you there; that's just simply untrue. I've heard of plenty of people who were molested & did not remember until their teens or adulthood.

That's a highly traumatic thing to have to go through, especially as a small child. If the mind isn't ready to deal with something, then it has been known to simply keep it buried until later (or never).

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  • 8 years ago
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    its been too long and you dont remember exactly how and where you were abused so there's even less evidence.

    see a therapist and try to move on from it. especially since you don't know exactly what happened and you were so young

  • Ti
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    What would you need? A psychiatrist. Nothing happened to you, if it had, you would have remembered it.

  • 8 years ago

    it has been too long now. and even if it hasn't, there would be no reason to do anything unless you were greedy for money.

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