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Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults.

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For two sisters raised in a family of 11 children that moved back and forth between Washington state and South Dakota, danger didn’t come from outsiders like they’d been warned by their church.

Two older sisters told her how they caught one of their brothers touching her.

The sisters told their mother, but Lynn said her parents did nothing; the abuse continued until he was 16 and she was 10.

Years later, Lynn’s sisters offered a devastating explanation for their brother’s behavior: They believed he had been sexually abused, though by a neighbor.

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