Collateral damage: the family upheaval that results from abuse

A case of sex abuse has repercussions beyond the obvious as the families of ­perpetrators are also drawn into the trauma.  Betrayal. It's the first word that Dr Marie Keenan thinks of when she considers the overriding emotion experienced when a family member is revealed to be a sex offender.

"That sense of betrayal is enormous," she says. "This is someone they loved, whom they thought they knew intimately, and now they are having to confront the most horrific news."

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