Why?
Our Children (picture is copyright – no permission to use will be granted)
Please be warned: what follows will distress and perplex and horrify.
It’s about William Tyrell – do you know of him? A little boy who went missing from the garden two years ago. He hasn’t been seen since. The town, Kendall, is a tiny place, a little village (about 835 residents), so you’d think – what, that it can’t happen in such a place? Or, that surely someone knows or saw something? Or, the worst – it happens everywhere, all the time, so why is he so special?
That last one, that really gets to me. Read the whole article, see the section that says ‘690 persons of interest’ and get a real grip on that number. How many people live in Kendall? 835 (approx.) How many persons of interest? Six Hundred and Ninety. 690! Why is the problem so rampant, so obvious, so unmanaged, that there are 690 persons of interest in such a rural location?
I HATE pedophiles and child abusers more than any other criminal – and to find out that there are SO MANY close enough to this event to be considered as serious contenders for the perpetrator means something.
What? It means we, as a society, are not doing enough to protect our children; we are not doing enough to remove this disease from our community; we are too LENIENT when it comes to punishment! Want me to go on – I could, you know. Ask me to be the one to pull the trigger – I’ll do it! Why?
Because when you see the damage caused by these acts, when you find out that so many people are damaged (and therefore, cannot be as effective in contributing to their community), when you see how much it costs in terms of mental health and future employment and caregiving problems – that’s when you realise the cost is too high.
We need to do something! We, all of us, need to do something to get rid of the idea that these people ‘love’ children! They DESTROY not just our children, but the future – of EVERYONE!
It is illegal, immoral and unforgivable to enable, in any way, a person who ‘loves’ children – a pedophile is a rapist. Any rapist or manipulator or sleazebag who wants to damage children in such a way should be:
Shot (in the gut to die slowly and painfully); taken out in a shark fishing boat (and not returned); chopped up for dog meat; de-gloved; dragged behind a vehicle (not going too fast, don’t want it to finish too soon); wrapped up in barbed wire (and bleeding) and left on an anthill; . . .
Many more ideas, but then I’m a writer, a person of ideas. Any to add yourself?
If you can’t or won’t help with this issue, consider this:
In Australia (data from 2000-01, I think) there were 1:5 girls and 1:9 boys (these are the reported cases only and from one state only) who were sexually abused. Carefully consider those numbers. Based on ‘discussions’ with others (yes, hearsay, but from good sources), I discovered that only 30% of cases brought to the notice of police go further than a simple complaint. That means (you guessed it) 70% of these cases go under the rug. And that’s in Australia – how much worse is it where you live?
It is so close to home and you didn’t even realise, did you?
Find out, and do something to stop the rot!
And please, please, if you know anything about William, do something, tell someone, be moral and upstanding and HELP!
