I, and I'm sure many of you, have been desensitized. The reality of incest and child molestation escapes our everyday lives. Something is reported on the news, you hear of someone you once knew; but realistically, we do not face that demon. Ironically, yesterday I watched 'Dolores Claiborne' on television. I read the book many years ago and have seen the movie several times. For those unaware of this Steven King work, it's about a woman who kills her husband because of an incestuous relationship that he is having with their daughter. I sat with bile rising in my throat during a scene where the daughter is forced to perform masturbation on her father. Throughout the day I heard that little girl say "No daddy, no. Please don't make me." He kept telling her "Don't worry, no one can see us here. Do it just like I showed you. Yes, there you go; that's my good little girl." Even now, just typing it, makes me tear up because that my friends, is reality. Right now a child is being molested. Right now a father is having sexual intercourse with his own daughter. Right now children are being forever scarred at the hands of a f***ing piece of s**t. And . . . when the opportunity arrives to catch and convict one of these freaks, people are instead star struck. Ten counts, TEN, all of them not guilty. As Beth likes to say WTF?
I did a Google search for 'sexual abuse by family member' and it turned up over 116,000 links. If society keeps walking down this road that it's currently on, then my children, your children, everyone's children are completely screwed! I gotta go, I'm just too angry to be here right now.
Posted by Stacy at June 13, 2005 08:07 PM | TrackBack