There are times when I lay my back down but I won't dare close my eyes. I'm plagued by strange thoughts when I think about the world. When you hear of some crimes committed by some humans, you would wonder; how can this happen? But then, for someone who is aware of human nature like I do, I'm not privilege to ask such a question because I know what humans are capable of. I have witnessed it, I have watched it and I have heard it. It is all over the news, on every news paper, on every tabloid, on every social media platforms.
It is no longer breaking news anymore but it still breaking hearts. We are not surprised by it anymore, we have seen enough. As a human being, I'm capable of forgiving a lot of things, despite my paranoid nature. There is one thing I can't forgive, which is crimes against children, it is the worst form of pain. So when I here of pedophiles, I visualize the victims, how does it feel to be violated at such a young age? I would tell you, the pain is unimaginable.
Children are innocent little beings, their perspective of the world has not fully formed. The way they see the world through their innocent eyes, is quite different. They see the society and they visualize a system that protects them from harm's way. When someone decides to violate them in any way, such person takes away their innocence and replace it with emptiness. Most children never recover from the trauma, the stigma and pity eyes of the public watching their every step, labeling them as a child that was once violated.
The vultures don't make it any easier, I'm talking about bloggers who find easy to use these children pictures as thumbnail for their stories. How would you feel, if it was you or your own children, would be able to paste their faces all over the internet? So when a crime is committed against children, especially if the person guilty of the crime also have children but could do such a thing to another person child. When they are caught and convicted, are they allowed to see their own children?
I will try to be as plain as possible, such people don't deserve to have children in the first place. No parent should ever be capable of inflicting such pain on another person children or parent because they know, what it feels like to be parents. What exactly will their children learn from them? what kind of values will they pass on them? Do you know what society will do to the children of such a person? they will live with the stigma of the crimes committed by their parents for the rest of their lives.
Do you know that, it is very easy to profile a serial killer's child. The conclusion is always simple, it runs in the family. So if the parents of a child are criminals, do you think the society will expect anything less from the children? I would say they shouldn't have access to their children or any child at all because it will cause them more harm, than good. I know some people would say, they are also parents, it is their right to see their children. If they are indeed parents, they should have never committed crimes against children. By doing so, they lost the right of being considered as parents.
This write-up was inspired by weekly featured content titled Sex crimes in hive learners community.
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