Re: sexual abuse
sara_zzz - most abusers do act normal especially in cultures where the purity of a girl is stressed because the pressure of culture and family can be relied on to keep victims quiet. This is not just Desi culture but other cultures as well.
We all know how hard it is to get justice and to have people believe you about rape in areas where the rape laws work against you and where the stigma attachs to you even though everyone says it doesn't count. People will talk.
I would like to slap the mother (who should know better), but she may know that the father or other men may blame the girl who complained and may have given advice to protect the girl. If there is a chance she will lose her family, please don't advise her to tell the father.
Will you be willing to take her in if she is blamed and thrown out?
Can she go to her mother and ask her the reason for staying quiet about the uncle?