I want to SCREAM!

Tonight on our local news station a report will air about the popular topic, "human trafficking" and sex crimes.  It appears the focus will be on how police are responding and preparing for the upswing in prostitution this summer as a major sports event comes to our city.

I won't watch it.  It upsets me too much.

No, not because I can't mange the issue - but because of how we as a community so quickly pat ourselves on the back because we are "addressing" sex crimes. 

While we ignore the persistent presence of sexual violence against children in our homes.

I WANT TO SCREAM!

• When will we take serious the cries of that young boy or girl who TODAY is being molested by a "trusted" adult?
• When will we stop trying to equip children to protect themselves and finally challenge adults to stop raping kids!
• Where is the outrage at the damage being done to the potential found in the identity of that child?
• Why is it that other causes, that affect far less people, receive the funding?

I WANT TO SCREAM!

Let me scratch the denial for you.  This is a glimpse of what is behind the closed door of sexual crimes in our homes:

• The grandmother distraught as the third generation female is sexually violated.
• The 23 year old who internalized the disgust of the sexual atrocity perpetrated against her.
• The 12 year old who, again molested by her father, was ignored by the system when she first spoke of it at age 4.
• An on-line community for victims closes because there is no money.
• The crippling cycle of therapists, groups, doctors, lost days of work, paralyzing fears, and repeating dysfunctions that costs our culture billions of dollars.
• Fact: the trauma of sex abuse is inked to drugs, alcohol and many physical illnesses.

I WANT TO SCREAM!

What is it going to take for us to get this?

 I WANT TO SCREAM!

I"M SICK OF IT!

                   ... and the tears start to flow....