After reading this article, I began surfing through the
comments. Most of them were as expected,
short descriptions of how horrible the crime was and sending blessings to the
spirit of the young girl. I said mine
silently to her as I have for so many others who have been victimized in this
manner. Then there were the others that
were also of the usual content, filled with corrections toward those that
either did not read the article completely or did not read the other related
articles.
Regardless. I usually
don’t respond to a great deal of these particular articles, mostly because
there is in reality not enough space allowed to fully address whatever it is
that I would like say about it. Which is
another reason that I have connected my blog to Huffington Post, I have more room
to rant about a given subject than the allotted 240 character maximum allowed
on the comments board.
Today however, it is not so much the article itself that
grieves me. Reading through the
comments I found one posted by someone calling themselves ‘blindtoreason’ which
I also found to be a bit of an oxymoron.
While I was in complete agreement when I first began reading this
persons comment, all the way up to the point when I finished the first
sentence.
Their comment is as follows:
[Quote] Hey MiloMilano
To which I replied:
[Quote] I am on here every day and I read about a lot of heinous
crimes committed all across the country.
I also read a lot of really ‘out there’ comments about them as well and
normally I do not respond to a larger majority of them. However I found this one to be personally
offensive. I have spent the last 27
years of my life fighting against sex crimes regardless of the victim. The last five years have been spent zealously
assisting in identifying, tracking and assisting in the successful prosecution
of pedophiles who use the internet as their own playground to entice children
into a dark world of horrors. Therefore,
I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY for what happened to this child. I am so very thankful that I am only one of thousands who
have NOT STUCK MY HEAD IN THE SAND.
Have a nice day. [End Quote]
Additionally however, there is so much more that I would have loved to have added to my comment, shortened only by the character restrictions.
I completely understand how people can become so outraged concerning various crimes, these types of crimes especially. Unfortunately these broad, sweeping comments are as "Blind to Reason" as many of the other posts I read on that comment board today. I would never presume to judge every single person on any discussion board much less contrive to analyze why criminals do the things they do and then to hand out blame to everyone else rather that the perpetrators themselves.
During the course of my first year as a Criminal Justice
student there were a number of classes that discussed the various theories
surrounding this very topic. While I
will admit that my own personal viewpoints regarding crime and criminals
underwent some form of evolution as a student, I cannot say that my opinions
have actually been altered that much. I am still
essentially a supporter of the Rational Choice Theory when it comes to the
greater majority of crimes, sex related crimes included. I believe that these criminals know that what
they are doing is wrong, perhaps not in the same context of the term wrong, but
they understand that it is wrong nonetheless.
When various groups stop coddling these individuals and start treating them like the criminals they are, then perhaps there can be more progress made in the direction of preventing others from committing these crimes. These people made a choice to commit these crimes. We no longer live in the dark ages, information is out there for everyone to read, see and hear. There is absolutely no acceptable excuse or reason for these people to even remotely believe that they will not be punished for these crimes. They know they were wrong in committing them, otherwise they would not be lying to cover up their actions.
There is a special place in Hell for people like Michael Plumadore and anyone else like him.
When various groups stop coddling these individuals and start treating them like the criminals they are, then perhaps there can be more progress made in the direction of preventing others from committing these crimes. These people made a choice to commit these crimes. We no longer live in the dark ages, information is out there for everyone to read, see and hear. There is absolutely no acceptable excuse or reason for these people to even remotely believe that they will not be punished for these crimes. They know they were wrong in committing them, otherwise they would not be lying to cover up their actions.
There is a special place in Hell for people like Michael Plumadore and anyone else like him.
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