About Predators.
Written in May 2007.
If you experience “Identity
Theft” credit cards in your name can then be used to, among other things, pay to log onto child porn sites and to purchase
child porn productions. The results can go beyond the embarrassing. In fact, they have moved into the tragic and the
disastrous.
In the Guardian last month there was a spine chilling article about what happened to thousands of perfectly
innocent people whose credit card details were stolen. For many of them a nightmare ensued.
Imagine a five in the morning bash on the door followed by a string of police officers searching your house,
confiscating your computer, and then a quite hideous 'outing' in the local media. Lives were literally being destroyed, wives
and children leaving the 'awful, despicable predator,’and careers being ruined. One potential warning note that should
and could have woken up some (earlier than it actually did) was the that fact that there was a hefty proportion of elderly
women among these “predators.”
Then the truth slowly leaked out, but far too late to set the recored
straight. Thousands of stolen credit cards had been used to access that child porn site in Texas. Many of them had been used
by criminals who had accessed them quite illegally! Many accused people were quite innocent. However, as mentioned previously,it
was only when some grandmothers and other elderly women were found to be on the list of “kiddy porn” customers
that at last the police and prosecutors began to take notice.
This is of course old news now but at the time is
was not widely known and unknown numbers of people tutt tutted into their morning coffees without realising that
they could be among the next group of “predators that had been captured by the police.”
In any
case what about the vastly larger number of sexual predators out there who never get caught? What about the vast numbers
of women and men who sexually abuse their young? To my certain knowledge just a minute proportion of 'survivors' ever report
such abuse in the family. Why would they? To lose a valuable source of love and affection however perverted and malign, is
far too threatening to contemplate, to a young child whose sense of self worth has already been destroyed by this despicable
abuse.
I worked in this and related fields for twenty-five years in the USA. One abuse survivor reluctantly reported
sexual abuse only because the abuser was an absolute brute who also beat her regularly. This abuser stopped attacking her
sexuallly when she was 14 since he feared she might get pregnant and also because she no longer fit the aberative profile
that attracted him. Except, then he started anally raping her younger sister and that she couldn't stand. She was able
to secrete a Polaroid picture that he had forced her to take,and showed it to a school councilor. That forced their hand.
She had told the school many times before, but because her father was such a brute they were reluctant to take any action.
The Polaroid they couldn't ignore,though, and he was eventually sentenced to 14 years in jail.
There are several
cultures in the world where child sex abuse is unknown and we do need to research why this is so prevalent in so-called developed
cultures such as Britain and the US. In all the years I have never seen a sensible or clear account of why so many women and
men sexually abuse children. I personally think that paedophilia is a delayed deficit disorder and that it is, quite unfortunately,
incurable. Offenders need to be locked up and permanently kept away from children. Nature, God,(or the primal force in whatever
your belief system is) never meant for children to be abused by those persons who are responsible for nurturing and protecting
them.
It is indeed the greatest betrayal of all. Some have called the abuse of a child “soul murder.”
I would not argue too much with this title.
Rayner
