I can't stop thinking about the 10 y.o raped and tortured by David Challenor.
She must have suffered so much pain and terror. But knowing that she endured that while her assailant was dressed in an adult size little girl costume and telling her he was a 6 y.o called Lucy makes it far worse.
I can't imagine how a child could process that. It's so disturbing and grotesque. Children, of their nature and lack of experience, cannot understand sexual deviancy.
On a less disturbing but quite intriguing note, my DF told me last week about how when he was a child there was a local man who had a wonderful telescope. The unspoken deal was that if you wanted to use the telescope, you'd sit next to him, he'd slip his hand down your shorts and, as DF put it, fiddle about.
My DF says it didn't upset him. At the time he was just mystified as to what the man got out of it. As a prepubescent child, my DF didn't 'get' adult sexual feeling. The assaults were very low key and so he wasn't freaked out