Postby Friday » Sat Jun 03, 2017 4:12 am
The fucking weird thing is, that mindset you mention, the covering for a child molester one, almost seems to be the default.
I know, I know. That's a big assertion, and I've got no stats to back that up. But shit, it happens so fucking often. Catholic Church (shit this one still pisses me off to this day. They fucking got so much of the heat they would have gotten distracted by 9/11 happening right after the story started to break) shit aside, there are tons and tons of stories of families just... not reporting, despite knowing it's going on. When I was young, even my community church (not catholic) had some shitlord who molested a girl slightly younger than I was, and a lot of the church members tried to fucking protect him.
I really don't want to believe that most people's reaction to learning about someone molesting a kid is "let's sweep it under the rug." But even if it's not a large part of society, it's a large enough part to fucking make it keep happening over and over and over.
Earlier in this thread, I talked about how it doesn't make sense to me to send non-threats to prison. I don't -really- consider these guys or people like them threats, (in a direct way, at least, just being enablers) but I'll make an exception about sending them to prison for this kind of shit. If anything, this is the one time I agree with the thesis "show the rest that this behavior is NOT ACCEPTABLE".