Need to vent...kind of...

[AngieDoogles]

Just a warning, this isn't a happy subject so you might not want to read on, but I really did need to get this off my chest...

Alright, so I have a class all about Child Welfare issues. The past few weeks, we've been focusing specifically on types of maltreatment (physical abuse, neglect, emotional/psychological abuse, and sexual abuse). Well, the most recent class periods have all been about sexual abuse and it's really graphic, both in the content of the material covered and the way it's covered...and on top of that, the class is three hours long. We've been going through, step by step, the processes a perpetrator must perform in order to gain "access" to a victim. Like Step 1: Overcoming Internal Inhibitors (personal moral objections, religious convictions, guilt), Step 2: Overcoming External Inhibitors ("how can I get the child alone...away from the protective parent(s)") and so on. It's so hard to have to sit through class and listen to the thought process of a pedophile and the theories as to why and how they turn out that way, patterns in their behavior, different types of pedophiles, etc, etc. I really just want to say...It doesn't matter WHY, just STOP IT and THROW HIM IN JAIL FOR LIFE! Grr...

One of the saddest things I've learned is that the average perpetrator abuses 250 children during his lifetime. If that isn't scary, I don't know what is....

I come home from class and just feel like crying for a good hour or so before I feel ready to go to bed...Hopefully we'll be through this section soon...