I'm having a moral dilemma.

Lucky428

chelseymat:

If you suspect a child is being abused, you need to call. Social services will investigate. They aren't necessarily going to remove the children. Maybe they will just send your aunt to parenting classes. You aren't betraying your aunt, you are standing up for two kids who are unable to do so themselves.

Late to the "party" but this....,

Please, something needs to be done.  Or email me their names and I'll make the call. Sexual abuse leaves lifelong wounds, especially without help. 

ETA Read through the posts and you have tons of women willing to call for you.  I'll give my first name and location so it CANNOT be traced to your family.  I'm sorry, but your aunt is 100% in the wrong and I couldn't care less about how she feels about what she thinks is normal but is completely horrid.

ETA again sorry -- I used to be a mandated reporter and this responsibility has stuck with me and always will.  Something needs to be done.  

b.heather

I absolutely agree that this needs to be reported AND the kids mother needs to be talked to. Also, I just want to point out that the boy desperately needs help as well. The earlier the intervention if he is sexually offending against a family member or other child, the more likely the intervention will be successful. He needs counseling/therapy as soon as possible.

Superchicy

Absolutely call.  I worked at a pool for a long time and we had to call CPS b/c of some suspicious bruises on a child in swimming lessons once.  It sucked, b/c we didn't know if it was abuse or not and didn't want to get the parents in trouble if it wasn't, but not only was it our job to protect the kids, there's no way I could live with myself if we didn't and something was really going on.

thequeeenbee

Oh please call. My mother was molested by her brother for years, and she still hasn't "overcome" it. She still struggles with it all of the time. She has told me that it made her feel so overprotective of us as children that she believes that it took away from her childhood. She has always said that she just wishes someone would have stepped up and stopped it, because she was too young and confused to do it for herself.

Please, do this for your niece.