Child pornography: Where is the outrage?

Published 6:00 am Friday, June 7, 2002

How many babies and young people are going to suffer at the hands of depraved men and women before we do something about it?

Article after article in our local papers and across TV tell the terrible action against children.

A 43-year-old teacher who raped a 13-year-old boy. (An adult who has sexual relations with a child under 14 is a pedophile and rapist.)

A Superior Court judge gave this teacher probation. He said “People mature at different times and certainly society doesn’t need to be worried.”

Well! I’m worried!

An Everett man who claims to have had sex with 17-month-old, talked on a chat line (he thought she was 11 years old).

He took a bus to California to have sex with this young girl. He was apprehended by the police. This same man stated he has friends in Oak Harbor with boys 2 and 5 who he and the parents have been molesting. He stated the mother runs a sex chat room here in Oak Harbor.

Do your kids have a computer in their bedroom. Do you know who they are chatting with? Do any of us know about any of these abused children? Are we doing anything to help these kids?

No wonder kids commit suicide. They think there is no hope and that no one cares. Well! I care!

Where is the outrage, why are we accepting pornography as freedom of speech ? I’m sure our forefathers never had this in mind.

If people want to watch all that garbage, let them have a place of their own, not in public view where children can see it.

Gladys A Tassie

Oak Harbor