Throughout the hundreds of articles I have written on the subject of children and teenagers I have deliberately avoided writing on this painful subject. Everyone has an opinion on such an emotive topic. My own is so passionate it is sometimes preferred that I keep my ravings to myself.
I am one of those people who refuse to see the good in child abusers or to look for the twisted beginnings of their wrong doing in order to justify their crimes. I simply believe that if a person abuses a child he or she should be hung from the nearest tree by their entrails and such sentiments do not go down very well with those who promote political correctness in any shape or form.
I am a radical believer in capital punishment, but not for murder or any other similar crime. I believe such fatal punishments should be reserved for those among society who seek to corrupt the innocence of childhood.
The argument against such reasoning is of course that often the perpetrators were themselves abused and such people should be pitied, not punished. I quite agree, but we adults as a society are not the object of abuse and therefore perhaps find it easier to give abusers a second chance at behaving like a member of the human race.
It is an unfortunate fact that child abuse does not stop even when radical deterrents are resorted to, such as sterilisation and castration. The abuser then merely turns to alternative methods of abuse to satisfy their appetite for cruelty. It was suggested by a fellow radical on the news recently that such people should be incarcerated somewhere and then used for human spare parts as and when required.
This sounds a little excessive even for me but I do understand where his emotions have taken him and his impatience with those who seek to uphold the human rights of child abusers as if they still had any moral entitlement to be part of the human race.
Children have a basic right which should allow them to trust the adult of the species. Instead we must teach our children even before they are old enough to attend school, not to speak to strangers, not to trust anybody, never to get into a strange person’s car, not to let anyone touch them, not to display affection to anyone outside the personal acquaintance of their parents - and sometimes not even then - what an indictment for our kids.
When did it all go wrong? Was it in the sixties when freedom of emotion became so important to everyone? Was it in the fifties when society frowned upon public affection and morals were under the microscope in every high school? Was it in the forties when the world was too busy fighting to keep an eye on the mental well being of society?
I believe that the modern world has always harbored such people but that the relatively recent progression of modern communication methods has brought such crimes under public scrutiny more than ever before. Tragically, the gift of the internet also allows pedophiles to effectively search and target their victims with little risk of exposure.
Child abuse is the disgrace of our generation yet more money is spent by European governments seeking out tax offenders than child abusers.
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