Lovefraud readers have forwarded a rash of sordid stories about adults in positions of trust over children who turned out to be molesters and child porn addicts. They should all be prosecuted, along with those who covered up their actions.
Records show Boy Scouts failed to report abuser, on USAToday.com.
Stacy Schuler, Ex-Ohio teacher, convicted of having sex with 5 students, on HuffingtonPost.com.
How child-porn case led to Hershey School, on Philly.com.
Roman Catholic church’s paedophile investigator jailed for possessing thousands of child porn images, on DailyMail.co.uk.
And then there is a child beater and a serial killer:
Judge so furious at abusive mother who left her baby severely disabled he has to take break from court so he does not ‘jail her through anger,’ on Dailymail.co.uk.
Is this the worst UK child killer? Robert Black is cnvicted of murder of a fourth schoolgirl ”¦ and linked to 13 other unsolved deaths, on DailyMail.co.uk.
Finally there’s Dog the Bounty Hunter, taking action. Maybe we need more bounty hunters.
Dog the Bounty Hunter gains custody of grandson on YouTube.com.
Duane ‘Dog’ the Bounty Hunter awarded temporary custody of grandson after chilling alleged abuse tape released, on FoxNews.com.
‘I am going to hurt them’: What Dog the Bounty Hunter’s son-in-law threatens to neighbours in new recording as son beating row escalates, on DailyMail.co.uk.
skylar
Oxy,
these people are narcissists who will do anything to get media attention. As a side benefit, it increases ratings and $$$$$.
Nothing is sacred to these people. The SIL used to work for Dog, so it’s possible that the whole thing is a set up. Dog might have told the SIL that this would help bring attention to the problem of child abuse and encourage other dads to “get therapy”. It appears that is what Dog is encouraging SIL to do.
His reaction strikes me as “off”, especially for someone with his personality. Most people’s reaction would be anger and outrage, but Dog seems to have more self-control and empathy (ROTFLMAO) so he says he doesn’t want to break up the little family, he only wants SIL to “get help”. The whole thing smells of a publicist’s dream.
Ox Drover
Well, Sky, you’re a little more cynical than I am and I’m plenty cynical enough! LOL I do believe the kid was abused by his father, and I don’t think that was staged, BUT now that it has happened, I do think that the reaction I would EXPECT from “Dog” was not the “lovey-dovey” one of “let’s keep the family together” one which I think was a media “sound bite.” Like EB’s junior told the judge, YOU didn’t “break up my family my FATHER DID when he abused my mother and his kids.”
CPS taking the kids away from an abusive parent are NOT “breaking up” the family, the abusive person is the ONE THAT BROKE UP THE FAMILY.
Of all the people who wanted “family” to be important, it was me, but at the same time I realize that what I had was NOT a “family” but a FAKE MASK pretending to be a “loving family.”
As long as the neighbors thought we were a “nice normal family” it didn’t matter what went on inside the house as LONG AS NO ONE OUTSIDE THE FAMILY KNEW THE DIRTY SECRETS. Even if others DID know, though, we PRETENDED THEY DIDN’T KNOW and kept up the charade.
darwinsmom
Katy,
You nailed it for me: there are the people who do wrong, then there are the people who claim to do good but it’s nothing of the sort, and then there are those who just act and stand or speak up.
That social worker sounds like a narcissist to me. I agree that she was a BIATCH.
It always pains me when I hear how social workers either fail to do what they are supposed to do, when they abuse their position of social power, or when they do nothing. It puts to shame what my own mother stands for. My mom was a social worker, and I remember a few stories that my father told me (not my mom)… One of them was how she tried to physically help a teen girl who had been threatened by her father with a knife. She went from service to service to find a safe place for her, even though at the same time she was miscarrying, not even knowing she was pregnant. But my mother decided to become a teacher at her late twenties, and taught students who wanted to become social workers. She has been my role model all my life.
And it is always mind befudlig to me when other people of whom I have a great opinion on integrity and as a human being did not have what I sometimes may have taken for granted, and gain even more respect for them. So often it’s said that environment is the cause of so much evil and wrongdoing. But then there are people like you and oxy and sky and so many others here who’ve lived through so much pain and abuse as a child and you may be some of the best people out there. Meanwhile some evil people are raised by a loving family not to anyone’s benefit. But it warms my heart to know you have known role models in your life. Yes, good people will not think twice of doing the right thing. They just do.
I once watched a documentary about a research done with orhpaned monkeys in comparison to non-orphaned monkeys. They had also measured their receptor ability to one of the hormones involved with agression and depression. It showed that orphaned monkeys who had a deficit grew up to be aggressive, either to themselves or bullying others. The orphaned monkeys who did not have a deficit grew up to be fine socialised monkeys, even though they were bullied or ostracised initially for their low social status. It also showed that the non-orphaned monkeys with a receptor deficit of the hormone benefited from their upbringing, though with greater difficulty than the monkeys with normal receptivity, orphaned or non-orphaned.
It did make a case that ensuring a healthy upbringing is important.
ErinBrock,
OMG! The nerve! At least it shows a shallow moral mindset.
Ox Drover
Darwin’smom,
I am never failed to be amazed at the actual SCIENTIFIC research being done on the human and mammalian brains now that couldn’t be done in prior times because of the lack of technology. If you’re interested in that sort of research there are several good books I have reviewed here on LF on this subject.
darwinsmom
I love that kind of scientific research. When Dawkins set up a week long marathon scientific presentations of neuroscientists, mathematicians, physicists etc a couple of years ago I followed it daily on the internet. The vole research about oxytocin was presented in the marathon, as well as one of a neuroscientist who discussed a neuroresearch on empathy. In the latter they had subjects being pin pricked by a needle in their finger for example, while they could see which part of the brain got activated by the small pain impulse. When the subjects were then shown a video of someone else being pricked in the finger the same brain area would light up and be active. So for the brain it did not matter whether the subject was hurt or saw someone else being hurt. And that is the power of empathy.
one/joy_step_at_a_time
not going to read these articles, but this headline…ouuuu boy: ‘Roman Catholic church’s paedophile investigator jailed for possessing thousands of child porn images’.
OF COURSE HE WAS DOING THAT JOB!!!!!
fuck.
i have come to the conclusion that a porn addiction (child or otherwise) is more than a ‘drug of choice’; but is a serious tell about what people have done and will do.
MoonDancer
Onesteprs – I agree.
one/joy_step_at_a_time
in the 80’s feminists said that porn perverted minds. i think they had something, but they (I) misunderstood the causal relationship; porn is sought out by perverted minds.
i don’t mean to sound prudish – one thing one joy ain’t…but, there is a whole lot of difference in me looking at something pornographic/ titillating 4 times a year and what these scumbags do.
i include my slimeball father in this category. he’s damn lucky i am no longer in his house or i am sure I would be turning his computer over to the cops. long before i knew anything about the reasons one would want to cover their online tracks I couldn’t understand why he had so much anti malware and anti tracking software on his computer…..i literally just put together his reasons for doing so in the last month. my sib sent me something about the national police and child pron on computers, some new process for identifying users. i don’t think i ever deleted it. think i might go take a look at it .
MoonDancer
I am not a porn addict or a prude,,,but child porn and pedophiles are . well thats a whole different sickness that can only be cured with castration and/or a bullet…
Ana
Hens,
Yep, truer words never been spoken.