Parents of an Abused Child

my x fiancee and I were together for three years. he was my knight in shinning armour , he was great with my 4 older children and had become the father they didnt have. We had a child together a year ago and were all living happily ever after. Me and my 4 kids him and his 15 year old son and our baby.

The 'hapily ever after' came to an abrupt end when my 6 year old DD disclosed that my x's 15 year old son had been sexually abusing her...for as much as 2 years and I knew NOTHING!!!!
Whats more is that I had been a foster parent for 4 years and had done heaps of traing and learnt so much about protecting kids from abuse, and then I let it happen to my own child!

Our case didnt go to court as police decided that it would be dificult to prove without actual evidence other than my DD statement. He get away with it! I still see him on occasions and he makes me sick, when he sees me he looks away and wont look at me.

I hate knowing that he may be doing this to other kids and there is nothing I can do about it. His father, my x, is now in a relationship with three young children and it scares the s***t out of me, it tears me up so much. I feel that even though I am protecting my kids, he is still alowed to do it to other peoples kids. I have thought about trying to tell them but I have already been threatened with slander because I told another family about it. I have been told that unles it was proven in court I have no right to tell anyone that it has happened.

very few people we know believe his son has done anything at all to my DD because 'he is such a nice boy' I thought that once. I thought of him as my own son. At first I wanted to help him get through this and get the councelling he needed, now the more my daughter tells me the more I want him to rot in hell.

I know this wont have helped much but i wanted to let you know that Im going through this too, I found out in May this year, the day before 'mothers day'.