Well maybe I'm being quick to assume that this girl was mature enough to understand what she was saying and the consequences of that, but to be fair you're also being quick to assume that this was done innocently or even deservedly towards the father.
Neither of us know one way or another what the exact context is here, but we do know that the girl in question was not sexually abused, and claimed that she was. I know someone very dear to me who has genuinely experienced abuse like this and it offends me that anyone (in any circumstance) would make up something like this.
Not innocently or deservedly. I am not saying this okay behavior or not extreme. It is. But if we are talking about a young kid, this doesn't qualify as nasty human being doing horrible things to people for me. This is something where I'd want to know why and hope help is possible.
Also to be fair, we don't know if she was or wasn't sexually abused. We do know she reported it, it was apparently quite convincing and then she came in with a crazy story and then saying she wasn't. I tend to believe that she is now telling the truth, but it wouldn't be the first time the reality of such a situation dawned on a victim and then they retracted. I personally know a couple of people who were abused as children. One who reported it and then retracted it in fear of what it would result in for everyone involved.
You'd be surprised what some kids are capable of, unbeknownst to their parents. Kids have murdered peers seemingly out of the blue.
I get your point and of course there are dimensions to a story like this, but regardless of the auxiliary information THIS action that is presented is a scumbag action. It's low, it's disgusting. You're probably thinking that perhaps the father abused the daughter in some other way and this was her way of taking revenge, but I'm thinking that something like that would have come up during the proceedings. Marks on her body, stuff like that.
I am not surprised of what kids are capable, I am more concerned with the reasoning for why a kid would do this. On the news last night I saw that 6 year old kill their newborn sibling. My mind doesn't go to how horrible the kid is, my mind goes to how and why did this happen. Then I read this and yeah:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...by-brother-mother-charged-20160812-story.html
There are many forms of abuse that can effect different kids in different ways. In the realm of wild speculation, I would be most curious about where the mother is here. If I missed it in the story, I apologize. But in the realm of coaching and manipulation, it wouldn't be the first time one parent used a child for revenge.
Her friends probably got a hold of the book and she read it that way. Or she looked up passages on the internet. That's the only part of the story that doesn't perplex me, kids can read/watch anything they want if they're willing to try. Most of the time, nothing comes of it.
No I can see how she got a hold of it. I was a teen boy once as well. Sorry for not making that clear.
My question is more how did the father, who apparently knew it was her favorite book, not know what it was about? Raising my niece was a family effort. The kind that involved going to One Direction concerts, checking out her favorite books, movies, shows and enduring her favorite YT channels. I am sure she had and still has plenty of secrets. But the stuff we knew about, we checked out.
