Far be it from me to judge, but when two young girls ages 8 and 9 are missing past bedtime, that's a five alarm fire for me. I would have had the swat team, and helicopters out looking for these girls. Of course I am paranoid, and growing more so as the nights grow longer and the days grow warmer.
First it was 9 year-old Jessica Lunsford, then 10 year-old Jetseta Gage, and finally 13 year-old Sarah Lunde.
Sadly, these girls were all the victims of sexual assault at the hands of CONVICTED sex offenders. While it seems Krystal and Laura weren't the victims of sexual assault, they were victims nonetheless. This has become a dangerous time in our country to be a little girl. It really makes you wonder where all this aggression towards young girls is coming from?
Is this some kind of subconscious backlash to the feminist movement?
It seems almost too obvious to me not to mention the coincidence of the resurgence of religion in our society and the aggressive crimes against girls. This is the kind of thing you would expect to see in Afganistan? A place where until recently, a girl could be sentenced to death for being raped by someone in their own family. A place where a girl could be beaten just for having her face uncovered.
Is our society trying to tell us something about ourselves through the silence of these poor little girls?
It's sick and while our government ponders what poorly thought-out social security reform to shove down our throats, its future loves, wives and mothers are being slaughtered.
What a waste, what hypocrisy. I would think the Conservative Right with all its righteous indignation would be ALL OVER there kinds of vile crimes. What's that I hear? Wait? Ssshhhhh?
Oh forget it, it was just more rhetoric about family values. Nothing to see here, move along.
Article comments
1 - SFC SKI
The Iranians recently hung a convicted child murderer in the town square, I can get behind that.
2 - Dawn
Yeah, I can get behind that too. How about we have more child murderer hangings and less child murders.
3 - -E
It is really scary to think that there are people out there that do that sort of thing to children isn't it?
4 - Steve S
This is definitely tragic. There has been a rise in crimes against children and I think we as a society really need to think of why, in order to solve the problem.
I am no expert by any means, but I would throw one thought out there to consider. I've blogged here about a rise in aggressive behavior in this country, specifically vigilantism. From the death threats on judges to Americans feeling helpless and patrolling the borders on their own, to a rise in hate crimes in this country.
Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is a rise in violence against young women as well. There is this feeling, I suspect, of helplessness, in America. People feel they have to act out and do something. 9/11 is probably still a big factor in this, I don't know.
People feel their judicial system is failing them, their government is failing them, society is failing it's moral structure, their jobs are being taken by illegal aliens, etc. If child molestation and/or murder is about power, then there is a possible connection in the feeling of helplessness going on throughout the country? They feel helpless like everyone else, so they turn to harming children to feel powerful? All I know is that this rise in aggression is manifesting itself in numerous ways, there must be a connection.
Although I doubt I will ever be able to prove a connection, if it turns out this reason for the rise in aggression against young girls is the same as for the rise in vigilantism, then my prediction would have already come true and lives would already be lost in this culture war.
5 - Dale
Just take a look at Judge Cashman's recent decision here in Vermont concerning a pederast who had sexually assaulted a mentally chqllenged girl from the age of 6 to 11. He was given 6 months and an early release after 60 days for therapy unavailable in prison.
There is no incentive for liberal/socialist judges to protect children because the people do not demand it.Focus is on rehabilitation of the crminal and not protection of community members.
The sad thing is that soon, vigilantes will take action against convicted pederasts here in Vermont, thereby disrupting the true function of Vermont's justice system, and eroding civilized society further. It has already happened in Ryegate Vernmont where a convicted out of state pederast pulled political strings to avoid being placed on Vermont's Stae sexual offender list. Local residents burned his car in his driveway, and he took the hint and moved away.
State justice systems across our nation need to get a handle on this dynamic, and institute penalties which would discourage the idea that one can assault young women with relative impunity, or use politics to escape one's criminal status.
Men need to be allowed to exercise their protective instincts in our culture as well, for those qualities of protection are the very ones discouraged by our liberal community, and by liberal educators. Young men are caught in a grey area of non-interference and minding their own business while bullied females are thought to be able to fend for themselves, alone and unsupported.
These facts are a sordid commentary on new age ideas about the independence of women, who really need the community support and protection of men, who have now been acculturated to allow women to simply fend for themselves, and to exercise independence of both movement and activity, when young women have not been prepared for the violence and agression the world can present to them all too often.
The idea that every woman is a man's mother or sister is not as outdated as many have thought.