The Bystander Effect and Child Abuse

[Zinjanthropos]

I kind of feel like a bystander knowing that I have an email admission of guilt from my B-I-L of a past transgression many years ago. I talked about it here couple years ago. I did hear that the victim in this case was interviewed by police but nothing after that. I don’t wish to infringe upon the victim here, who is an adult now with grown up kids of his own. I’ve always wondered however, whether the people who live in BIL neighbourhood have right to know about his past but it’s Canada and we couldn’t get that info even if he was registered.

[Secular Sanity]

I kind of feel like a bystander knowing that I have an email admission of guilt from my B-I-L of a past transgression many years ago. I talked about it here couple years ago. I did hear that the victim in this case was interviewed by police but nothing after that. I don’t wish to infringe upon the victim here, who is an adult now with grown up kids of his own. I’ve always wondered however, whether the people who live in BIL neighbourhood have right to know about his past but it’s Canada and we couldn’t get that info even if he was registered.

I read this book once. I think it was called, "Why Do People Talk?" It was about the evolution of gossip. Warning others was one of the the primary reasons.