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February 3, 2006
Chatrooms and Sexual predation (unrelated)
I had a few things I wanted to discuss tonight but I spent all evening in the Wikipedia channel on IRC.
Now channel 10 has this horrible story about Sexual Offenders living near Day Care Centers. The story did nothing more than point out how the reporter knows how to point and click and look for registered offenders who happen to live within 1,000 feet of a Day Care Center. I wonder what asshole thought of this report.
I believe sexual crimes against children are horrible. However, I also believe that our culture has put absolutely no research into curing these people, or even trying to find out from where this affliction stems. Guess what—the numbers seem to be growing. They found 500 sex offenders within 1,000 feet of Day Care Centers in South Florida.
I wrote the reporter an email. The contents of which follow. I encourage anyone else to do the same:
Hi Julie (jsummers@local10.com);
Your story served no useful purpose whatsoever.
As long as society continues to deal with convicted sexual preditors as animals, keeping them inside little zones, then we'll continue to have them. Who the hell knows where a day care center is?
I don't pretend to understand sexual predation...I wasn't molested as a child and I tend toward physical attraction of those more mature than myself. But I do understand similar problems, such as drug addiction, something else people believe you can't recover from, and something that leaves other kinds of scars on loved ones, including children. How come children who are physically or emotionally abused are allowed to suffer or returned to the abuser? Why not do an expose on that? You can't...because your 500 will turn into 50,000 people. And yet these children are suffering from damage far greater than many of the victims of those sexual predators. Teenagers don't scar quite as easily as children do. Or don't you remember being a teenager?
These people are human beings, Julie, whether you want to objectify them or not. I'm sure many if not most of them have had some sort of counseling. As human beings, they deserve pity and love.
I'm certain you believe you are doing something good, but you are probably hurting more people than you are helping.
Cary Bass
Fort Lauderdale
Posted by Bastique at February 3, 2006 11:03 PM
Comments
I hear ya.
It's ridiculous.I didn't see the show,but I know as a teenager,I easily passed for a 19/20 year old when I was a mere 14 year old little brat.I lied to older men all the time,and even had a fake I.D. to get into clubs etc..If my parents did like some of these other parents,there would be some guys sitting in jail for child molestation,and that's a shame."I" knew better,and I knew the consequences,but I see the same scenario where the poor guy didn't have a clue the girl was 16 and now his face is plastered all over the net.Even worse,the guys neighbors get a card in the mail telling them exactly WHERE the guy lives.Pitiful.
Those guys that hurt these poor children that don't know any better....toddlers...etc....they deserve everything they get.If this sucker is freaky enough to hurt small children a baby or babies,everyone around him should be notified.But your so right.More attention should be paid to trying to figure out a CURE for these people instead of making such a big deal about that.
Oh,and on a lighter note.I sure could use your tech support.Now that your back from your blog vacation..LOL...I gotta get you back on my faves.But I need to change my profile pic and once again,I'm lost.Big duhhhh...
Take care,
Tammi (a Bastique-fan)
Posted by: tammi at February 12, 2006 4:53 AM