There was some disturbing video this week, of a New York City Pride march, in which marchers were heard chanting, “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re coming for your children.” Hmmm. Maybe I should go to an airport, and make a joke about bombs. Or maybe make a joke about perpetrating violence against a President. Yeah, not so much. At this point, trying to say, “We were just being sarcastic,” doesn’t fly. Look around, they have been coming for our children.
One of the things I’ve learned over the years is that people treat child predation like Fight Club. What’s the number one rule of Fight Club? Don’t talk about Fight Club. My late mother was sexually abused by her father. When we were going through Maw’s things after she passed, we came across a diary in which she detailed, in part, what he did to her. You can’t un-see that. In talking to Paw one time, he mentioned that he had been molested. That was fairly close to when he passed in 2018. He was over 75 when I learned that nugget. Don’t talk about child predation.
Years ago, I signed up to receive email digests from the FBI. These digests are press releases of cases the FBI investigated and are either announcements of indictments, or sentencing. Let’s take a look at what I’ve received in the past week:
6/22/23
–DeMotte Man Sentenced To 210 Months In Prison
–Man Who Sexually Abused Minor at Fort Bliss in 2014 Sentenced to 35 Years in Federal Prison
–Former Lawson Business Owner Indicted for Child Pornography
–Hastings Man Sentenced to More Than 33 Years for Production of Child Pornography
–New Orleans Resident Sentenced to 21 Months Imprisonment After Pleading Guilty to International Parental Kidnapping
–York Man Sentenced To 25 Years’ Imprisonment For Sexually Exploiting Two Children
–Former Federal Law Enforcement Officer Sentenced to 14 Years in Federal Prison for Transportation of Child Pornography
–Connecticut Man Sentenced to 235-Month Prison Term for Inducing a Minor to Engage in Unlawful Sexual Activity
–DeMotte Man Sentenced To 210 Months In Prison(child pornography)
–District Man Sentenced for Possession of Child Pornography
6/26/23
–Two Individuals Charged with Neglect Following the Death of a Child on the Red Lake Reservation
–Paris Man Convicted of Attempted Child Exploitation
–Davenport Iowa Man Convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor and Travel with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Activity
–Highlands County Man Indicted for Sex Trafficking
–Seven Sentenced to Federal Prison for Child Sex Trafficking in Green Lake County
–Assistant high school volleyball coach arrested on federal child exploitation charges
–Jury Convicts California Man For Assaulting Child On Aircraft
6/29/23
–Connecticut Sex Offender Sentenced to 327 Months for Attempted Enticement of a Minor
6/30/23
–Round Rock Pastor Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charge
–Former Santa Fe Priest Indicted on Sexual Exploitation Offense
These were just from the past week, and don’t take into account the local crimes, and certainly not the crimes that go unreported. From the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), “According to the FBI, in 2022 there were 359,094 NCIC entries for missing children.* In 2021, the total number of missing child entries into NCIC was 337,195.” In 2022, NCMEC’s CyberTipline received 32,059,029 reports. Of those reports; 31,901,234 were for apparent child sexual abuse material, 80,524 were for online enticement, including “sextortion”, 18,336 were for child sex trafficking, 12,906 were for child sexual molestation, and 46,029 were for Other, including child sex tourism, misleading domain name, misleading words or images and unsolicited obscene material sent to a child.
Folks, we have a problem. While we have been living our lives, perverts have been stalking our children. The depraved things that these pedophiles (Prepubescent children) and hebophiles (pubescent children) do would make you vomit. Thus far their depravity has existed in darkness. We might see the occasional, sad news story and think to ourselves, “Oh, that’s terrible!” Then we go back to our lives, and the cockroaches go back to their scurrying in the dark.
We have started to see parents across the US wake up. The Daily Wire broke the story of the case in Louden, VA where the School Board covered up a sexual assault of a young girl in a school restroom caused the Virginia governorship to flip from Democratic to Republican. That caused some people to take notice. The phrase “transing the kids” has entered our cultural lexicon. People who didn’t care about Drag Queen Story Hour are now seeing drag queens twerking to children, who were taken to the drag shows by their parents. More and more states have passed legislation prohibiting gender surgeries and hormone therapies. Bud Light, Disney and Target have all suffered for their stances on transing the children. Now they’re joking about “coming for your children”. So people have been taking notice. Have you?
We are seeing our children subjected to hyper-sexual advances from adults. Why? Certainly NOT for the child’s benefit! A more important question is, what can you do about it?
So what can you do? That’s easy. Turn on the lights. Learn about the scope of the problem. visit the NCMEC website for starters. Remember John Walsh? He and his wife founded that organization. Do your own research. This …stuff… seriously needs the light of day. Turn on the lights, and start stomping.
You are not alone, and there’s plenty for all of us. Let’s talk about Fight Club.
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