If the VD lifestyle had absolutely nothing to do with the crime and should be left uninvestigated as it pertains to this crime, I ask the following.
Do you consider their home a safe place for children?
Would you leave your own children in their care with no more concern than any other "normal" home?
Knowing their lifestyle, would you encourage your own kids to spend time at the home?
Just curious as to how innocent and free of blame you find them.
I did mean to answer your questions, but got distracted by my real life
If the VD lifestyle had absolutely nothing to do with the crime and should be left uninvestigated as it pertains to this crime, I ask the following.
No parental lifestyle goes uninvestigated in the abduction/murder of a child. Family, particularly parents are always the first suspects, always, because statistically, they are the most likely perps. The VD's were investigated, and apparently some LEO blabbed all over the air to Rick Robert's. But LEO came to a different conclusion about who the offender really was. What little info that has been released leads me to believe they are correct. The Van Dam slamming detracts from the real issue of predatory pedophiles.
Do you consider their home a safe place for children?
No, the home is statistically the unsafest place in the world. Nevertheless, we all have to have a "home". Apparently their home was "safe" until it was entered by a predator.
Would you leave your own children in their care with no more concern than any other "normal" home?
I never leave my children in "other" care, ever. I am very paranoid. I have a small, select group of chosen family and friends of deep relationship, who are well aware that I have vigilante tendencies.
Knowing their lifestyle, would you encourage your own kids to spend time at the home?
No, my children are not missionaries, I encourage their friends to spend time at our home, by baking every day.
Just curious as to how innocent and free of blame you find them.
They are innocent and free of blame in the murder of their daughter. They didn't cause the wolf to exist. I feel pity for their victimization, and have a merciful understanding of the grief and self-blame they feel over their lapses in behavior and judgement. I think their hearts have been seared by the "if onlies". I have no burning desire to add to that punishment.
I prefer to punish wolves.
Knowing their lifestyle, would you encourage your own kids to spend time at the home?
Just curious as to how innocent and free of blame you find them.
The fact that someone might not want my kids to visit that house does not mean the van Dams are in any way culpable here.
I wouldn't want my children visiting a home where the parents are swingers, but that also applies to households where the parents are rude to their domestic employees or chain smoke in the house or are members of a religion that may try to prosthelitize my kids. That's my perogative as a parent, and parents do and should have a lower tolerance for what their kids are exposed to than the state.