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Originally Posted by graciegirl
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.
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We need more education about this problem of child sexual abuse available to parents, teachers, psychologists, and others. Think the problem rests mostly on the justice system in the US and its emphasis on control of the system through bureaucratic checks and balances which often do not work if there are other factors involved like a very popular college football team and its image.
This could end up railroading the innocent if the image of the football team (Penn State) is more important than the rights of both defendants and victims.
The same thing seemed to happen with the Catholic Church and abuse by clergy. The Church's image was more important that the rights of both the defendants as well as those of the abused kids.