Excuse my eradictly written post but my anger is at it's maximum! While working on an adult psychiatric unit a guy I went to highschool with was admitted for child molestation of 5 & 6 yr. olds. This was in 1974, when molesters wern't arrested but hospitalized. While in our morning staff meeting, I expressed that thiis pt. was delayed socially and that was apparent in highschool. I, in my nieveity felt that with help he could learn to be comfortable with his own peers. Well, his psychiatrist put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Karen this is a psychiatric disorder of the brain, that is not a learned behavior but made! Their is no cure!" He gave me a look like he appreciated my Pollyanna out look but in this case it just didn't apply. This for me was an awakening of these crimes beginning to come out of the closet. The psychiatrist pointed that these crimes over time will increase as the population increases. now look where we are today! Overwhelming are the statistics of child sexual abuse throughout the world! These sick crimes not only effect the poor babes but the children and spouses of the criminal.
thats where my work comes in, when I would hold group therapy for teens effected by parent internet sex crimes. These crimes are devastating to society and are only increasing for many reasons we are aware of. This sick sect of society rely on "Supply & demand" to keep their crimes going. The children abused, children effected by parents ICP, friends of the abused, friends of the abusers family, religons who believe in the goodness of mankind and find they have a perp in followers or a leader within a church. Look at the broad aspects of these crimes. Society in all its goodness is being raped and pillaged by thousands of pedophiles. As much as we pride ourselves as Americans having the best judicial system an applying appropriate punishment for crimes, we are so wrong for not addressing the death penalty when these crimes go to trial. Society must rule on this punishment for so many reasons no one is addressing. Society is putting more children at risk for these continuing crimes. If one feels the problem is too overwhelming to address, I have alternitive ways one may help. This starts out at a base within ones community. Go to your local Childrens home, where children are placed by childwelfare when a parent has been murdered, when a parent has been arrested, when a child has been abused mentally or physically. They don't call them group homes for nothing. Some of these kids have seen more of the bad in life than some adults and admissions are growing. So many addicts out there these days that are doing grotesque crimes. Volunteer a couple of hours a week. There aren't enough people helping these kids out of fear of life. Donate clothes, books ect... It starts with the children effected. I'm sure most will locate a group home within a view miles from your home. Put yourself in these babies shoes. I say babies because children are stunted by their immediate world around them. Go get involved. It makes you feel good, for many reasons and you will become a hero in your own childrens eyes. Peace <3
