Being groomed in your teens is fairly easy for teenagers bc in the tiny, tiny world of your high school and your friends, kids are constantly being singled out for praise and adulation by adults, whether for being good at sports or academics.

These things often make kids more pliable, controllable and coachable because the winning/succeeding feels amazing.

Now apply this simple method to sex, framing being liked by older boys as laudable, and you'll see why lots of people see no problem with what happened to them.

The fact that the same psychological complexes that probably made some kids A+ students and sports stars also led to the grooming and likely molestation of other kids is difficult, and then you remember how rife sexual abuse of high school student athletes is and so on.