As I’ve got older I’ve increasingly despaired at the male’s capacity to be perverted and seek sexual gratification from vulnerable people.
This includes Catholic priests, grooming gangs (which based on the convictions reported are mainly Muslims), TV celebrities, football coaches, police officers, scout leaders, driving instructors, prison wardens, relatives, school teachers, family friends etc etc.
By no means is it all priests or all Muslims or all school teachers or all police. But unfortunately it means trust is broken and suspicion is increased and I almost feel like I will be viewed as a pervert if I see a little baby or toddler and admire how beautiful they are. As a parent who’s children have grown into adults it’s nostalgic to see other little kids as it brings back memories of their childhood and how wonderful it was to raise children. But look at them and smile nowadays and you’re potentially going to be met with mistrust and wariness. Having said that, I wouldn’t blame a parent for seeing any male as a potential peadophile.
Sadly I do believe it’s better for parents to err on the side of caution than blindly have faith that they can place their children with a male and turn their backs and everything will be ok. It’s not worth the risk.
Stories about spiking serve to remind us, if needed, that the world is a dark place and there are many sick and twisted sad inadequate pathetic excuses for a human being who are circulating amongst us.
As well as those that directly attack/assault, there’s so many others who view illegal images and/or groom children online by pretending to be a youngster themselves. The police can’t keep up with this wide scale criminality so they risk assess and go after those in a position of responsibility such as a school teacher. But far too many get away with it. That’s why we’ve seen an increase in vigilante groups who entrap lone wolf internet groomers. These vigilantes are fantastic but it’s a sad indictment that they’re needed.
With regards to spiking and other similar perverted activity, we need to be incredibly tough. There will always be those will to try this on, but there’ll be far less if we adopt a strict minimum prison sentence of at least 5 years. We need to speak loud and clear that it won’t be tolerated. Unfortunately we’ve slept walked into a passive form of tolerance. By the way, before I’m called right wing again for having a strong view on a subject, you should consider that my proposal of a 5 year minimum sentence isn’t what I’d actually prefer. What I’d prefer is for these freaks to be found and wiped from the face of the earth. That’s unfortunately not feasible and I wouldn’t encourage any illegal vigilantism but if this spiking was done to my daughters then a 5 year term would only go some way to me feeling that justice had prevailed.
