My 8yr old sister was raped by my 24yr old cousin multiple times, and everyone acts like it never happened, and it's the most frustrating thing in the world.

I don't really have much advice to offer to be honest because what I've learned over the years is families tend to not really give a shit for some reason.

Two of my cousins basically stole tens of thousands of dollars each from their parents, used them and treated them like garbage. I never liked these two cousins either and always knew they were scumbags so when this news started going around the family I thought awesome, karma finally caught up with these two assholes and now the whole family will disown them.

Except that never happened. The parents and the kids had a small fight but everyone else acted like nothing happened, like it was just another day. After a few months even the parents didn't care anymore and pretended like nothing happened.

What I did in my case is just completely cut myself off from those two cousins, I tell everyone I don't want any contact with them so don't invite us both to gatherings and I tell everyone I don't want to talk about them or hear about them. That's about all I can do since everyone is apparently a bunch of cowards and would rather pretend like nothing happened instead of "starting something."

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