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Originally Posted by jane032657
In replying to a post above, it is not true that all child sexual predators have been abused. Child abuse is often born out of power and control and the ability to get away with it. I fostered 55 children, many victims of sexual and physical abuse as well as ran non profit organizations who helped children who were abused. What scares me as much as Sandusky is all the others who are under the radar, and who now continue not only to do what Sandusky has been charged with, but who also have access to internet and the easy access it provides to capturing innocent children. Jerry Sandusky is not an anomoly, he is just more high profile and caught the attention of the world. The less known abusers, like those in your neighborhoods that you never knew, or in your kids schools or Boy Scouts or even closer, the relative that everyone knew something about but no one, like in the Sandusky case, ever stepped forward, those people are not on tv but most often, they are not brought to trial either. And the victims suffer in silence and do not feel safe to step up and rock the family boat. Little do they know that the boat sunk long ago.
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Jane,
The attorney general who spoke last night really came across with some good final words very much like yours.
Now when I hear of a male teaching kindergarten or first grade, or a single guy being a scout leader, or even when I see on TV the ads for poor children in other lands and some man holding a child in those ads and the child looks so frightened, my mind jumps to the possibility that here could be another pedophile.
You just cannot help but wonder. The principle in our elementary school was a pedophile. He was always trying to hug the girls and when later talking to old friends we all remember feeling icky everytime he was around.
It came out later he impregnated a sixth grade girl and then he commited suicide in the school basement by closing himself in a room and turning on the gas..
And of course there are the female teachers too...and they are usually very good looking.
I just don't understand, but it makes me SO mad, so disgusted and so confused as to how to help.
And horribly, there will be the awful other side too, that some teens will accuse innocent people. This is all just awful.