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...the judge said " You will always have this but you dont need a life sentence." YEA OK...you ask those little boys, and those 6 year olds...and those 9 year olds have a life sentence ....they will always live with that

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I see your anger, but I hope you are wrong about this part. Some of us thought we had a life sentence too. Or a death sentence. Turns out we were wrong. We yet live.

I remember a TV program in the 1960s (yes, they had TV then) called The Breaking Point, starring Paul Richards as a psychiatrist. He was caring for a young girl who had been raped, and he made it clear he was on her side -- but he did not treat her as though some unimaginably bad thing had happened to her. He was careful to not treat her as having done something wrong, either. I think not treating what had happened to her as something so horrible that it could not be dealt with helped her to heal.

A friend of mine who specialized in TV history once told me that most psychiatrists did not appreciate the portrayal given to psychiatry on the program. I think they were wrong.