[rectang]

I'm reminded of the Gene Weingarten's 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning article, Fatal Distraction, on parents whose children have died from hyperthermia after being left in cars[1].

Similar to this case, some people believe that such parents should be criminally liable, and that there cannot possibly be any extenuating circumstances — despite the correlation between the rise of back-seat children's car-seat laws and the prevalence of such deaths.

> Think it through.

I have. The article provides very little to go on, and it is not hard to imagine that an abuser who is clever enough to publish CSAM material online for years without getting caught is clever enough to keep the abuse hidden from the mother and manipulate a child into keeping their trauma secret.

> (Not necessarily every step and every breath of the kid, but you know the large stuff, like for example are they being sexually abused.)

There are vast numbers of parents who do not find out for years[2]:

    73% of child victims do not tell anyone
    about the abuse for at least a year.
    45% of victims do not tell anyone for
    at least 5 years. Some never disclose.

Given how often sexual abuse happens, we're talking about millions of parents. I do not believe that every last one of them is morally culpable because they did not "know the large stuff, like for example are [their children] being sexually abused" and that they should be criminally charged.

[1] https://mitchellhamline.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2012/...

[2] https://cachouston.org/prevention/child-sexual-abuse-facts/