My mother is and was like a bulldog towards anyone even thinking of bothering any of her kids and yet she had no clue and now refuses to believe me about an abuser. I ask her about it and she says I just have an active imagination.

The mother is usually the last to know if they ever know. Don't think they are stupid because they are not, they just can't imagine this happening to their child and won't believe it easily.

In my mothers case, her feelings may be because my Aunt, mothers older sister, was attacked in her own home by an old friend of her fathers, my grandfather. My grandfather could barely speak English back then. My Aunt was 7 and mom was 5 when this pig in sheeps clothing came into the home and tried to molest my Aunt.

Luckily my mother saw this and ran for my grandpa who ran inside, up the stairs to the bedroom with his shotgun, and "SHOT" the man dead. My grandfather was never prosecuted and everyone said he was a hero for protecting his girls.

It's really weird because this is the same Aunt whose husband we girls all called Uncle Friendly because he tried feeling up all the females in the family at one time or another. So you can see why no one ever told my Aunt. I thought she should know but mother demanded our silence. He had tried years earlier with all my Aunts sibblings as well, including my mother. I hope he is burning in hell!