Not necessarily. For some kids, the strain of living in the same home, day in and day out, with the person that abuses them causes them to block the abuse from their memory. It's the only way they can go on living with this person who is supposed to take care of them but in actuality is hurting them.
Do some googling on dissociation and dissociative disorder, it should bring up some info on how and why kids "forget" abuse.
This doesn't mean I think Townshend is innocent. If this is just an excuse he's come up with to explain away his looking at CP, I'd be perfectly happy to rip his balls off myself. Don't drag other abuse survivors down by claiming abuse as a reason for getting off on CP -- that's just cowardly.
