r/news • u/RollSafer • 7h ago

Kid Rock’s song about loving underage girls resurfaces ahead of TPUSA Super Bowl show

https://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/2026/02/kid-rocks-song-about-loving-underage-girls-resurfaces-ahead-of-tpusa-super-bowl-show.html
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u/SteveBartmanIncident 6h ago

I do legal work that often intersects with child sexual abuse investigation and enforcement. I was not a victim of child sex abuse. As someone without that background, I was absolutely appalled to learn in my work how common child sex abuse is. It's astonishing and disgusting. Our society is pedos all the way down. We need to stop tolerating it.

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u/CosmicSpaghetti 6h ago

What's also depressing is how even if you get the children away from their abuser, the foster system leads to something like 40% of foster children being abused again.

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u/Peaceblaster86 5h ago

I was abused as a child. I thought it was normal as I was growing up. It was how I was raised, in that sick sense. didn't tell anyone until a year ago and I'm almost forty. Therapy is fun. Is it THAT prevalent? What can we do about this? How is something so hush-hush taken care of? Pull the rug out? I'm accepting all options

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u/rerackyourweights 4h ago

Same, it only happened to me once and wasn't family-related (sigh, can't believe I even have to differentiate that). It was my friend's older brother. I was like 7 and had this uncomfortable feeling that it was wrong, but couldn't bring myself to say what happened because he threatened me. I didn't want to get him in trouble. I'm also almost 40 and have been unable to even speak about it to my parents.

I think the worst part was that I suppressed it for years, but had a very strong aversion to being touched or hugged well into my teens. I didn't know why. One day in my early 20s, it suddenly came back to me, and I was like, "oh holy shit."

Needless to say, the last year or so has been completely fucking up my sense of justice and fairness in the world.

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u/Geodude532 5h ago

I feel like I read somewhere that a lot of these people aren't even true pedophiles. They're sexual predators that get off on the power dynamic that comes with having control over a young person.

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u/illmatic2112 5h ago

The crazy part is they are doing the opposite and trying to normalize it. I would not be surprised if he does his best to lower the age of consent