*shakes head*
sean, I don't know if you comment like this just to try and people all riled up or if it's just your age. However, you keep thinking like that and we'll all be watching you hang your head in shame on that show some day....
Once again, ignorance of youth comes a-shinin' through.
silver, you know it man. I think that those who harm children and old people are the lowest of the low. And to sexually degrade and molest a child even in her/his mind is still sick and should be treated as criminal intent.
Alright silver. I apologize. Maybe it was harsh. But it's harsher to say that a child deserves to abused or raped or molested cuz she should "know better". NOBODY deserves that - especially NOT a child. You should know how it is... at 16 you still think you're invincible. Even adults are meeting people online so how can a child be expected to know better?
HH, I believe the second half of this pedo show is next Tuesday night. Check out the website and watch for the advertisements coming up on it.
Actually, I know that girls mature faster than boys. I know that girls were married at 13-14-15-16 old maid. However, in this day and age, we have babied our kids and they do NOT have the skills (most of them) to be "adults". Back when we were marrying at 13, the adults in the village taught the young couple how to live as responsible adults. People were taught their lifeskill trades from the time they were old enough to hold whatever they needed to help along.
This pedophile thing isn't new. It's as old as time only it was more acceptable at one time as long as you married her. Sadly, too often, this only perpetuates the myth that we women cannot succeed in life without resorting to using sex or our bodies to get anywhere. If we are nothing but breeding machines just because we're young or female, we might as well just go back to the dark ages and sit at home and sew.
You're right. There is no magic number. There is no magic transformation. But when you look back at what you yourself were like at 13-14-15-16, what do you see? Were you mature enough to not just have sex but to hold a job and support a wife and kids? I doubt it. Were you thinking with more than just hormones? Were you even aware of the dangers around you in the world? Were you more concerned with being popular or getting a car or playing basketball? For goodness sake, I was still (secretly) playing Barbies when I was 15, for crying out loud!
Can we really expect a 13 year old girl to not get sucked into meeting someone who'll hurt her emotionally and sexually - scars that last a lifetime, whether you choose to believe it or not - when so many older (not old just older than 18) have done similarly stupid things?
JD, I'm with you. If anyone molests my kids, I will slit his throat.
alienated quoth
i have been saying for quite a while that all the gay crapola was only going to open the door to hell. so let us all walk in and start sacraficing our children to political correctness and perversion.
Oh, I understand you alright, JD... It was (and not too long ago and still in some countries) when a girl/woman was bought and sold as property. She had no value - or at least, no more than a good breeding cow. She had no worth except as a bargaining tool for her father and then as a son-maker for her husband. Whether or not it was to do with instinct or internal drive, I don't know. Perhaps it's because the younger (and therefore stronger) girls had a better chance at survival during childbirth.
I do disagree with you, ALIEN, on this one. I have a cousin who is gay and believe me, he has NO interest in children or women. I think I do understand what you are trying to corrolate it to tho. Are you trying to say that if we allow gays to take over marriage (which is a touchy moral subject for many people) that it could well open the door for pedos to say, "well it's the same for us as a basic human right to have sex with/marry who we want"? I know that there are many people who fear just that.
This is a delicate subject for me. I was raped as an adult and I know how much damage to my soul it has left. For a child, it is a thousand times worse. I know what normal sex and sexuality is. An innocent child does not. I think puberty has started coming earlier and earlier from the hormones injected into our meat supplies to make them grow faster and from the preservatives and chemicals found in just about all our food now. It is proven fact that repeatedly abuse young girls with develop early as well. It doesn't make it right to have sex with a child just because she looks older. Doesn't every pedo say that to her? Just read the chats saved on PervertedJustice . Then tell me how these "innocent" chats can't do harm to a child...
In fact, here is the chat log from one of the ones they arrested on the Monday show. Warning: this is VERY likely to turn your stomach.
Read it and tell me that this man doesn't belong in jail... I dare you.
I've read quite a few of their logs. They tell you when they have chatted longer than what's written on each file. In most cases, there is grooming and sexual chat within one or two days of IM-ing.
Education IS the best way to do things. But even the educated get fooled sometimes. And what about those children whose parent don't give a rat's ass about them? The ones who fall thru the cracks? The ones who don't know anything more than (sexual or otherwise) abuse? What about when your kid goes over to a friend's house and that kid doesn't know better? What about the parents who think, my kid's smarter than that, it'll never happen to my kid...? What about those parents who "don't like to think about things like that" so they pretend those things "don't happen where we live"? There are still parents who put a computer in each child's room where they can close the door and do whatever they want online. In this day and age and with all the education we have, it still happens.
The guy that I linked to from Monday thought he was talking to a 13 yr old girl. If you watched the show, he actually brought the rope and lube and other stuff he talks about in the log to the bust house. They had ... what?... four days of chat logs? And if he was that "prepared", how many times has he already done this to a real child?
Doesn't that scare you? If not for you, for your eventual child? Or your nieces/nephews? Your eventual grandchildren? It sure scares the hell out of me!!! But then again, I have four small children to worry about. And I already know the aftereffects of something like this on someone's life.
I'm only 35 to your 23, Sean, but sometimes I feel like it is 100 years older than merely the 13 that it is. At 23, I was already finding out what it was like to live with an abusive husband who cheated, lied, used me financially and sexually, and raped me at the end when I dared to say I was leaving. If I'd have stayed he would have ended up beating me like his father beat his mother, him and his siblings.
I was 24 when I left him.
As I was discussing what has been put on here via everyone's comments and arguments, I realized that we have been in the process of blaming the children for this instead of putting it where it really belongs - on those that abuse those children! We are arguing as to whether or not a CHILD has any responsibility in being party to their abuse!!
Whether or not the child acted older or stupid or whatever, whether the man "just chatted bullshit" or not, A FULL GROWN MAN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS ACTIONS INVOLVING A CHILD!!!!!!! The men involved in these predator stings have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they WILL MOLEST A CHILD IF GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY just by their actions - not just discussing sex online but by going to a child's house when the parent isn't home!
A man with an honorable desire to help a child will not discuss sex graphically online with a child, nor will he find out when the parents aren't going to be home so they can go over to "protect them from their own selves". Don't you think if he really cared, he'd ask the police to check in on the child instead of driving two hours to bring booze, drugs, condoms, lube and videos?
If we're going to blame a child for being molested, we'd better start blaming ourselves for being raped too. I, for one, have already been through the self blame and reached the other side and I'm not willing to go back and change my mind... I DID NOT DESERVE TO BE RAPED NO MATTER WHAT I DID TO CONTRIBUTE TO IT. Self blame tries to tell me that I did.
Sorry if that was a bit harsh, everyone.
No your opinion deserves to be heard. However until we stop telling people that they don't have an obligation to protect themselves things like this will continue to happen.
I'm not defending these men (save in cases where the girl was, 16, lied and could be believed etc etc. I'm sorry I shouldn't have to card girls I meet in the club but that is literally what it is coming to.
I'm mostly asking and nobodyis giving an answer is when does a child stop being a child?
Exactly, silver! I can't answer your question, Sean, cuz I don't know what the answer is. Each person mature physically and emotionally at different times than others. No, you shouldn't have to card a girl whose gone to the club. No, teens who have sex with other teens (tho, I have a very difficult time with say a 19 yr old "dating" a 13 yr old - we all know what he wants and notice it always seems to be the guy who's 19?) shouldn't be charged foolishly. But if you don't have a "teen" at the end of your age number, you shouldn't be trying to have sex with those that do!
We have the "limit" there to protect children from the predators. There is always someone who's got to abuse the law cuz they don't like their daughter's 17 year old boyfriend.
Perhaps the teen posting naked teens should have thought just a smidge more about what it meant to be posting his online friends that were underage. Did he think only teens were going to be looking at those pics? Or do you think he thought about all the sickos who get off on looking at young boys and girls? Probably not. But the damage is done already! Those pics will be SOMEWHERE else that some creep is passing on to his creepy buddies. You can guarantee it!
Sean, that said - I haven't met any 13 yr olds that truly think or act like adults.
mom, more than likely it WAS just sheer stupidity on his part.
JD, I really admire you. You stopped at one punch. Having seen firsthand the damage done, I don't think I could have stopped at one. Reading that bullshit just put my stomach in my mouth... So sick to justify what he was doing... *shivers*
I think the same of capital punishment. It should fit the crime. I don't think that anyone should be tortured, no matter what they did. For child molestation or rape, a man should be castrated. If that doesn't stop him, painless execution. I think of it this way: if a dog gets rabies, it can't be cured. It becomes a danger to everyone and everything around it. It must needs be destroyed to save others. If a man cannot control his sexual urges around children (harm/death of the soul) or is a repeated danger to others (harm/death of the body), he should be treated in the same way to protect others. There are those in jail right now who have proved over and over that they can not or will not change. How is paying for them to live life in relative comfort and peace helping those they've victimized? How is protecting those who will become the next victims when they escape or have "done their time"?
Everyone should have their chance. I don't think that you should have your hand chopped off for stealing or your face scarred for protesting. Sometimes people steal to feed their starving children. But no one needs to molest a child for any reason.
I guess that's a whole 'nother topic again, isn't it... :-p
I'm gonna have someone yelling at me for this one...
It isn't even always the higher ups messing with the numbers on statistics. Many rapes go unreported. (I never reported mine, either.) There is just so much shame and secrecy involved. Even worse, the victims are afraid of being treated as tho they have "asked for it" in some way or other. Too many have been treated that way. Even the children, as we've been discussing.
Ever hear about the seriel killer in russian that murdered so many women cuz while it was communist, they told everyone that seriel killers were only a free world problem? His killings were supressed by the media and government so he got away with it for many many years. I'm sure there are more stories just like it out there.
LOL "Disagreeing with Sean..." :-p LOL
It is true that people are and have been warned about such things as drinking too much with strangers yet there are MANY people - men and women - who do just that every weekend at the bar. Or driving drunk - yet still do so willingly and stupidly - even AFTER they get caught doing it and license suspended!
We can talk until we're blue in the face about these things but it doesn't change those who can't/don't/won't see it or say that it is their right "as an American/Canadian" to do what they want. It also doesn't change those who prey on them.
Any parent worth their salt tells their kids 'not to talk to strangers' but every day, your kid meets strangers at the store while shopping and you say to them, " Say hello to the nice man." Predators know all the games to get a kid to not be "strangers" anymore. I teach my kids that they must ask permission to go ANYWHERE with ANYONE - including their friends. I have taught them to use their gut instincts and to follow them (if they feel "bad" about someone to NEVER trust them and to come home right away). Usually, gut instinct is the best thing to go on and is almost never wrong.
All the same, if a man decides that he wants something from a woman or a child, there is VERY little that we can do to stop him. One of Ted Bundy's victims was taken with a swift knock on the head in less than 10 minutes walking between her dorm and another. Even a woman who knows self defense doesn't have a chance if a man is waiting in the back seat of her car to bash her on the head. Even a child knowing what to do if he/she is ever grabbed, can't stop a man from snatching them from the neighbors bushes as they walk by coming home from a friends house.
That is why we have to do our best to stop them all. Second chances come at a price, I'm afraid. And I don't know about you, but I'm not willing to let my kids or my mom or my sister or my grandmother be the next sacrificial sheep...
Yes, there are different types of each. BUT, just because someone is "dumb" enough to do something like that (I prefer innocent or naive) or abused enough already to only know that kind of "love", still doesn't change that an adult is ALWAYS more responsible for their actions than a child is. If a man knows better and a child knows better, who do you think is really more responsible?
All a child knows is trust and it is a hard thing to break them of that without scaring the bejeebers out of them and doing damage that way too. Finding a balance between having them constantly living in fear of what could happen and pretending only 'bad' people have bad things happen to them is what is needed. And it's not as easy as all that cuz each child is different and sees things differently too.
Good! :-)
I like you too, sean, even if I don't always agree with your opinions...
((((sean)))) ~^^
We live less than 10 miles away from the sicko Devlin who had Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby. Those sick people are all over the place. There is nothing that anyone could do to a person like that that would not upset me. Can you imagine what they have done to their victims???!! People like that get what they deserve....and they deserve no mercy- either here on Earth or when they die. Just be aware of who is around you and always be cautious with your children and who they associate with. It seems you can never be too careful these days.