Evil at its Ultimate is in Sexual Abuse of Children 05/11/05
May 12, 2005, 10:19AM
Houston Chronicle Article
Cold comfort
Florida's sex offender law has emotional appeal. But it's not the best way to stop sexual predators from preying on children.
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle ON the face of it, Florida's new law looks satisfying and savvy. Signed last week by Gov. Jeb Bush, the legislation includes a measure requiring many child molesters to wear satellite tracking devices for life. The bill raced through the Senate and House only weeks after 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford was seized from her bedroom, assaulted and killed. A registered sex offender has been charged with her murder. As Bush signed the law, flanked by the devastated families of Lunsford and another murdered child, Sarah Lunde, onlookers might have been tempted to think it might save other families from the same pain. Unfortunately, there is no proof that blanket approaches such as universal Global Positioning System monitoring will halt attacks by convicted offenders.
Though horrifying, abduction/murders are actually quite rare, says Dr. Edward Sczechowicz, a psychologist who treats sexual offenders convicted by the Miami-Dade court system. The vast majority of sexual abuse is instead committed by family members or acquaintances.
Abductor/killers are akin to serial killers and psychologically different from most offenders, especially juveniles, who tend to re-enact their own experiences of abuse. Tracking sex offenders with GPS bracelets � which will cost Florida $4 million in the first year alone � might be useful as an lab experiment. But lower tech, less showy and better documented measures are likely to work better in most cases.
One approach is to increase the number of well-trained probation officers. John Couey, charged with murdering Jessica Lunsford, was a convicted sexual offender who had violated probation. The private company hired to monitor him did not know he was a sex offender and lost track of him for more than a month, the Miami Herald reported.
Another low-tech method, periodic polygraph tests, can't be admitted as evidence in court but can track activities of offenders identified as special risks. Clinical research, though not as dramatic as sweeping sentencing laws, is starting to yield useful clues about predator behavior. Sex offenders who have never had a partner and show a history of antisocial behavior are considered most dangerous.
Although some compulsive offenders can only be contained rather than cured, counseling reduces recidivism. Community watch programs � as simple as parents patrolling play areas � are a powerful disincentive for predators, researchers say. Finally, educating children about healthy and unhealthy touch, whether by family or acquaintances, remains the best defense against sexual abuse.
Houston Chronicle MAY 10TH 2005
"Although some compulsive offenders can only be contained rather than cured, counseling reduces redicivism ... [ Definition: Anyone who relapses into a former state or condition, committed to a second term ] . Community watch programs...are a powerful disincentive [ Definition: Somethng that deters ] for predators. Finally, educating children about healthy and unhealthy touch remains the best defense against sexual abuse." Bill O'Reilly had a crimninal proscecutor Courtney Anderson on his show, "The Factor". She had written a book "Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Success", and had sided with The Houston Chronicle. She is from Texas.
It is amazing the ignorance of people like her. Sexual abuse and molestation is the most devistating experience especially for a child who will then have an imprint for the rest of their life. Not only do we have now an increase in this kind of crime but an increase in the murdering of children which is the next thing to be concerned about.
What is happening is that people cannot look at themselves and see the sinister part that they live with within themselves. There is always a need to protect the alien identity which is their particular source of evil. We all must deal with this or let it think for us. Courtney Anderson showed how strong this serious problem can be and is everywhere such as in our court system protecting predators and criminals. She had been a proscecutor but seems to have become someone who feels sorry them. Actually one always becomes what one hates. If she had hated her father for an example, she had taken on the same identity as her father. Then we must ask," How could she be a proscecutor?"
Sexual behavior is the most addictive, and when a child experiences a sexual feeling at an early age it becomes a feeling never to be able to let go of. Other feelings arrive from this such as jealousy and anger. Those people who vicitimize innocent children are attracted to the innocence because that is what threatens evil. Innocence shows the presence of Creation that has yet to be corrupted. Generally the sinister part of humanity always must destroy innocence just to feel comfortable.
The Houston Chronicle is biased to its own needs and destroying evil should be one's most important goal in life. It is the opposition to Creation and life. The problemis that everynw has his or her own evil to deal with all relative to how much traumatic conditioning they hs gone through. Until people can raise their consciouness to see the absolute truth about the alien identity in them there never will be a solution but a miserable ending.
May 12, 2005, 10:19AM
EDITORIAL JOURNAL , response to Bill O'Reilly's Comments..........
The No Facts Zone
Read before you complain
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle The 19th century American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson once said of a man, "The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." Were he alive today, Emerson might be thinking of television host Bill O'Reilly.
On The O'Reilly Factor cable television program Tuesday night, the popular host included a segment that took the Houston Chronicle to task for an editorial that had run the same day. The editorial was entitled Cold comfort: Florida's sex offender law has emotional appeal, but it's not the best way to stop sexual predators from preying on children .
Hang on while I count our spoons:
At the start of the segment, O'Reilly stated that the Chronicle had "taken a lot of shots at me, so it must be left of center." O'Reilly's name has appeared only once in a Chronicle editorial, which concerned not O'Reilly, but Fox News' suit against Al Franken for his use of the phrase "fair and balanced." The suit was thrown out of court.
O'Reilly told his viewers that the Chronicle editorial said the Florida law was too harsh. He was mistaken. The editorial excerpts that O'Reilly projected on the screen said nothing about the harshness of the punishment. The editorial, citing extensive research on this subject, said hooking GPS monitors to sexual predators released from prison might prove less effective than closer supervision by parole officers and other low-tech strategies. The Chronicle did not call for lighter punishment; it called for the adoption of the most effective measures to protect our children.
O'Reilly said the editorial advocated "community service" for sexual predators. It did not.
O'Reilly accused his guest, Austin defense attorney Courtney Anderson, of misleading the audience when she defended the Chronicle editorial. O'Reilly then read what he said was a quote from the editorial. Unfortunately, not one word of what O'Reilly read appeared in the Chronicle editorial or anywhere else in the paper. He and his staff apparently confused someone else's commentary with the Chronicle's.
O'Reilly claims his show is free of spin. Spin is when someone casts the facts in such a light as to reinforce his argument and weaken his opponent's. What O'Reilly did was to disregard the facts altogether, even going so far as to attribute to the Chronicle words and views it did not print and does not espouse. That's not spin; it's misrepresentation that is unprofessional, unwarranted and injurious to the public debate about a serious and urgent issue: protecting children from predators.
The Chronicle's reader representative and letters editor received several complaints about the editorial from people who admitted they hadn't read it, or who attributed to it quotations that did not appear in the editorial. Before Chronicle readers complain about an editorial, I hope they take the time to read the editorial carefully, rather than relying on someone else's careless characterization of its contents.
James Howard Gibbons editor / opinion pages
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