Disgraceful to say the LEAST

If you click on the title, you'll find one of the articles I'm referencing in this entry.

The media seems to LOVE to report cases of adults - often women - preying on school children. I read somewhere that for every female teacher/school worker who sexually abuses children, there are 12 male teachers/school workers who are also sexually abusing children we never hear about.

In recent weeks, two specific cases in the media have caught my attention. One, in NYC, a female day care worker was convicted of raping a 4 year old boy. Her defense was that the boy touched her breasts and that seduced her into having sex with him. She was powerless over his manly and masterful charms. The other article is about a 10 year old child who was raped by two men. One, 24 years old, raped her in a park - and the other, 34 years old, took her to his home and raped her. The judge in the case gave exceptionally light sentences to the men because he says he heard that the child - who had been in foster care much of her life and was roaming the streets alone when these men preyed upon her -- was dressed provocatively. He says that at the time of the rape, she was wearing a "frilly bra and thong" and was known to wear high heels and "sexy" clothing.

Beyond the obvious issues of THEY ARE CHILDREN and YOU PEOPLE AREN'T - when exactly did adults abdicate all their self control to children? How can an adult truly claim a 4 year old child seduced them? How did these men KNOW this particular child was wearing "frilly undies"? And, since when are children of 10 capable of earning the money, driving to the store, picking out frillies, and then traipsing around on their own?

I'm an adult. I can tell the difference between an adult and a child - regardless of their underpants. Because I'm an adult, I know the difference between right, wrong, and criminal - and frankly, I care about those differences.

Shame on the adults who blamed their victims for their own criminal lack of control or outright meanness. And SHAME on those adults who bought that bullshit.