Morpheus wrote:
>
> The main problem here is the convenient appeal to scientistic reports as
> though there some science behind all the sexual hysteria that is ongoing.
>
> As you point out the position of many of these 'protectors of children' is
> based on a moral bias and not scientific evidence. Cartwright says that
> himself.
>
> Where, by the way, is the hew and cry when children are physically abused
> which happens much more often)?
>
> Why is it that NCMEC is not at the vanguard of tougher sentencing for
> physical abuse of children? The fact is that in this country you can get a
> lighter sentence for killing a child through neglect than you can for taking
> a picture of the child in his/her underwear.
This has always bothered me. When you look at the dreadful cases of
Victoria Climbie, Shannon Matthews, Baby P, et al, not to mention the
hundreds that don't come to the attention of the national press, the
so-called "child advocates" remain strangely quiet.
What did they say about the boy whose father tried to "teach" him
boxing by beating him to a pulp? Or the young girl left to fend for
herself while her mother went on holiday? Or the boy chained to a
radiator and made to eat dog food and sleep in his own excrement? Or
the toddlers forced to hit each other while their parents filmed them?
Not a dicky bird! It makes me want to cry.
Yet a few photos of kids in swimming trunks have them foaming at the
mouth.
> Now that is absurd and has nothing to do with justice. It is moral hysteria,
> a witchhunt. Let's at least call it what it is.
Agreed.
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