mg ...... child abusers are far more likely (we are told) to be people who themselves were abused as children. so how can you maintain that parents, particularly the mothers, are at fault?

Yes chances are it's a family member who carried out the initial abuse but who?

Mother , father, uncle, cousin, step sister/brother or family priest. Or it could be a teacher, scout leader, older child, adolescent - who knows?

Abusers need treatment to stop this pattern of abuse continuing