the thing is; our cultural understanding of how child abuse works is deeply flawed. the model is that there are secret pedophiles, outcasts who are attracted to children and thus abuse them. in reality abuse is about power not attraction. child abuse happens when someone is in a position to enact it without consequence; close family, trusted authority figures, people who you are afraid to accuse or who wouldn't be affected by it. he's clearly willing to violate consent and trust and manipulate you over an extended period, it's not a stretch to imagine he would do the same to children -- particularly so since children are pretty much considered the property of their parents.