[cradle of freedom]

It is common for pedophiles to threaten kids with bodily harm, harm to their parents or they will tell them that no one will believe them or they will torment the kids by telling them that they really wanted it. Many kids have been molested yet carry the secret around with them for many years maybe some even to their deaths. Recent pedophile trials reveal new victims coming out to tell of their victimization ten, twenty or thirty years after the crime. You would think that after so many pedophile cases making the news in recent years that parents would get a clue.

I learned something new while listening to the radio, a guest on the program who was a boy scout leader said that sometimes the pedophiles are younger men who were not married and purport to be former Eagle Scout from other troups. I never thought of this, I always pictured boy scout leaders as being mature married dads but I guess according to this man, they do not have to be dads to be boy scout leaders. I can see how young males who claim to have a history with the scouts can get into the scouts with the intention of molesting the kids.

[Peter Libra]

Thank you for your post and indeed for the care you have put into it. I think it is appropriate to relate my experiences as a security guard at the largest mall in my city. The public conveniences were a stamping ground for various homosexuals to deliver messages on the partitioned walls. I was staggered by the incidence of just how brazen they were.

Previously it was as if the homosexual was cloistered off somewhere private. Well who should care anyway? The building superintendant had a special high finish surface on the partitions, so cleaning staff could erase the messages, that night. Messages to meet at a local park.

What absolutely beat me was the reluctance of far stronger and younger security men than myself, to go in after these cretins. Cretins because they even cut a hole between partitions. It seemed to paralyze most of my co-workers. One individual we knew of kept on frequenting the washrooms. I got a polaroid camera and took shots of his writing. I just showed him his handywork and never heard from him again.

Just in case anyone thought that this was overzealous persecution of these men, I should remark that sometimes one would check on the washrooms and two men would be in one stall. One usually younger than the other.

So lenient were the local magistrates on one prominent town newspaper editor, they let him off jail time. It was kids in foster care he abused. He was allowed to associate with parentless kids after his molestations, saying he could now develop a proper relationship as a sort of big brother.

People seem to be absolutely nonplussed and only act when it is far, far gone.