It feels "safer" for a small child to blame herself than the real perpetrators -- because the child needs safe adults. And if you blame yourself then you feel maybe you can change and make it better by yourself. But it doesn't work that way. Conflicting needs and feelings, but it is not your "fault".
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Now if thou would'st
When all have given him o'er
From death to life
Thou might'st him yet recover
-- Michael Drayton 1562 - 1631
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