Hello all,
Earlier tonight I saw a special on one of the major news shows-not quite sure which one. Maybe it was 20/20. I was utterly dissapointed at how the station handled this report and what message it relays onto the viewers.
The report was about sex offenders who target children. Now don't get me wrong. It is morally defying to sexually pursue a 9 year old boy or girl if you are a 35 year old man...that goes without saying. However, my dissapointment comes when the reporter put these sex offenders in the light of being some sort of "monsters". These people who commit these crimes are human beings with metnal illnesses and a distortion of reality. But does this constitute them to be monsters and viruses of mankind? NO! These are but humans who need help and must be at our most sensative concern. Instead of barking at them and sending back into their holes, we msut reach out our hands and help them overcome. Most of the subjects that were examined on this report did admit that they had a problem and were seeking help but the reporter's great disdain and digust was still very apparent and extremely degrading to these oxygen breathing, 4 limbed human beings.
If you accept the very core of this situation you will come to understand that these people possess a mental illness...so do we all to some degree...and we are all entitled to help. Since when has anyone barking at us about our issues helped us overcome anything at all? The way this reporter downgraded the subjects as human beings will only make them go back and feed their depression and anxiety which undoubtedly stirs up their warped view of reality. I rememebr one particular case dealing with a sex offender who was willing to speak on camera. Witha very sad face and almost helpless demeanor, he admitted his issues and stated he was getting help. The reporter then scowls "then why must your violate these kids?" in such a degrading way that the subject interviewed cried helplessly not knowing why he cannot control himself.
What we must understand is that all humans are born with defficiency in many forms...be it big or small, they are defficiencies. Asking a sex offender why he cannot stop violating is liek asking an obese person why they cannot stop overeating. With these uncertaities, some of the afflicted peopel will go seek help...yet we STILL scowl at them like they are lower forms of life.
We need to help these people if we want to get anywhere in keeping our children safe from sexual offenders.
Too many people only live in one world...and that is their own. Ths leas to several misunderstangings of why peopel are the way they are and why they commit such actions. We must consider that there are 6 billion lives on this planet with 6 billion stories. What you expect to be a given norm may not be understood by one who has been deeply traumatized by some event or tragedy. That must be considered. Help and support must be there for those we are afraid of if we wish to get anything accomplished.
