If you are 13 years old or younger,  you may have been blamed for the assault but children are NEVER responsible for adult actions or that of an older child.

It is important for you to be heard so you can heal.  I would advise you to tell your story however, sometimes parents or other trusted people don't want to hear and accept the truth.

Children learn correct behavior in society by telling what they think is not right.  It is called tattling.  This is how children learn the rules of society and eventually make sense of their world.  Tattling is a normal childhood event.  It is how a child learns what is OK and what is not.

A child who is silenced from speaking, never learns to be heard.  Children who are ridiculed for tattling will not want to say anything.  Children who are beaten for tattling will never be confident to voice their opinion or wonder out loud.    This stunts their emotional and psychological growth and development.

Everything they want to say is shut up inside them.  This makes the child very vulnerable to abuse because they can easily be blamed and will accept responsibility for keeping the secret.

A young child lacks language skills to recount in detail what happened.  They don't have a complete vocabulary so sentences may be three or 4 words.  They leave out details because they don't have a word for the act.  A child is not an adult, but are developing human beings.