In January 2007, Andrew C. James, a man with two prior domestic assault convictions, pled guilty to sexually assaulting a 4-year-old boy in Vermont. In a plea bargain, he was given a $22 fine and sentenced to rehabilitation and lifetime probation. Today, he walks a free man.*
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Last year, another Vermont judge who sentenced a man convicted of raping a 6-year-old girl over a four-year period to only 60 days in jail. The convicted man's friend, who also allegedly raped the girl, received 12–15 years. After Bill O'Reilly confronted the judge with his cameras, the first man's sentence was extended to three years.*
Does this just make you want to vomit? It should. It should make you mad. It should make you want to scream from the rafters. It should make you want to get up and help stop these sick bastards from hurting our children. But what can we do? What can YOU do?
If you haven't been a victim of rape or "inappropriate touching" from that favorite uncle of yours, consider yourself lucky. Including myself, I know AT LEAST 7.
HERE ARE SOME SCARY FACTS:
- Of the more than 600,000 convicted and registered sex offenders living in the United States, 100,000 are missing.
- California is the state with the highest number of registered sex offenders at 109,000. Second is Texas, with 50,000. Ranking third is Michigan, with 40,000.
- Only 1 in 3 sexual offenses against children are ever reported.
- 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 10 boys will be sexually victimized in some way in the United States before they turn 18.
- Forty to 50 percent of those who victimize girls are family members, but only 10 to 20 percent of those who victimize boys are in the family.
THE LAWS NEED TO CHANGE!
We, as a nation, need to come together and stop this, STOP THEM. We need a united front of us against them. How do we do this? It's starts with us, the moms of the United States, to rally all the other moms, dad's and family members to stand up and say... GET THESE BASTARDS OFF THE STREETS FOR GOOD!
It starts two ways.
- We educate our children AGAIN and AGAIN to NEVER get in the car with a stranger, to NEVER let an adult touch their PENIS OR VAGINA and to always, always come and talk to you if they ever need to!
- We need to have our voices heard by our government representatives.
Oprah made this step easy for us. All you have to do is CLICK HERE to get your PRE-TYPED letter. It's not going to get any easier than this. Oprah's team already did the work for us. Now all you need to do is click-click-click, sign your name, and let your Congressman and Senator know that you won't put up with this any longer. Let's change the laws. Let's make the United States a safer place for our children and our grandchildren to play in.
WE CAN CHANGE THE LAWS!
Let's do it together. Get mad and stay mad until we get ALL these sick bastards in jail for LIFE!
Want to learn more?
Click here to go to National Center For Missing & Exploited Children.
Click here to see Oprah's Child Predator Watch List
* copied from Oprah.com
Wow. That's disgusting.
Posted by: Cece | February 23, 2007 at 11:50 AM
I just printed out letters for The Hubby and I. They will go out in todays mail!
Posted by: HeadMutha | February 23, 2007 at 12:30 PM