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child on child sexual abuse, survivors? can you help me please?

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needadvicefast · 09/07/2011 21:20

Have also posted in behaviour and development before i found this section.
My 5 yr old dd has been sexually abused by another 5 year old girl, it's been going on for at least 6 months, there's no doubt about her disclosure, social services are involved with us and the other child. She is extremely traumatised and I think we've been managing to help her but tonight I stopped her from messing with dd2s (age 2.5) legs and lifting the back of her nappy. She is saying "I think it's right because B (other girl) did it to me." She has agreed to tell me when she wants to "mess" with her sister before she does it and obviously i'm not planning on leaving them alone together for the forseeable but how the hell do i deal with this?? We're waiting for mental health help but have been told it's likely to be up to 6 weeks before anything happens. If anyone has any insight into what she's going through or how to help her deal with the fact that this behaviour has been "normalised" for her I would be extremely grateful.

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needadvicefast · 16/07/2011 17:11

hi mum68, i'm doing ok considering, went to have my own mental health assessed last week because i was suffering from bad anxiety, doc thinks i may have some sort of secondary PTSD...waiting for next available appointment...It's very difficult, we have told friends but none of the other parents at school know, trying to decide how/what/whether to tell anyone next week, dd's been off for 3 weeks so i'm sure a couple of people wil have noticed...Am very worried about monday.
dd is definitely better than she was although still a lot of anger and anxiety which is preventing her from sleeping. B will not be going into school next week so dd can go and will have a week of relative normality before 6 weeks hols. Our social worker has not seen dd this week cos dd doesn't want to see her, just have to wait for CAHMS assessment now, hopefully within 5/6 weeks.

I've been keeping a very careful watch on dd and dd2 and so far so good, seems the talk we had on sat has worked for now...

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