| ευλογημένοσ ρεβέκκα  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: heart of America Gender:  Posts: 921 Country:  Level up: 64%, 73 Points needed |  |  Many truly guilty do not get caught The problem with any punishment measures of justice is the true criminals are not the only ones to be prosecuted.
I think this is the case with criminal activity on a whole. Society in many cases do not mete out Justice justly. Prosecutions and charges are brought about by politics. In many cases justice is ignored when or if the perpetrator of the crime has any politic clout or influence.
In the cases of child molestation many are never caught or tried. In years past many of these cases were kept quiet by the families of the perpetrators. Shame covered up what had happened. The victim list grew, as other family’s members were unaware that Uncle so and so was a child predator. Some of the older family members knew yet said nothing to prevent the events from repeating. The children were frightened into silence until they were adults and even then it took years for them to speak out about what had happened to them and traumatized them at such an early age. The things that haunted these children into adulthood remained silent. As adults they had voices and some of them would speak out. By then though the perpetrator had many more victims added to the long list.
It is not always easy to see from both sides of the fence unless you have been there.
A young boy of 12 thrilled that a girl would lavish such attention and affection on him could not fully comprehend when his parents told him a girl kissing him in the street was inappropriate. Two years later he would sit lonely in a cell waiting for the arraignment for sexual charges levied against him. Wondering what exactly did I do wrong? Not fully understanding the evil ways revenge can be exacted. He would spend months of being pounded on in facilities of law and justice and spend more than a year of house arrest before an actual trial would ensue to clear him of these hideous false charges levied against him. The girl who made the claims of abuse against the boy parents used to work for his parents. Finally in court when she was asked why would you say such things that were not true. She claimed this, "Because his mother fired my mom and dad." The prosecutor had known this all along the charges were false yet refused to let the matter go due to political ramifications. By now the young boy was sixteen years old and damaged in ways only those who have been there would understand fully. He would never have trust for the justice system of the world again.
Sometimes Fred the best we can do is hope and wait on the Lord for justice. He does mete it out fairly and He alone is just. I know this does not make up for what has happened to victims of such hideous things. Yet I have personally seen both sides of this fence. |