Well, just the headline alone is enough to make my skin crawl. In fact, I was eating breakfast this morning when I saw this story on the morning news. I almost hurled, especially because of what I heard next:
"Sources told CBS 3 a Sheriff's Deputy entered a room on the third floor of the CJC building and found 49-year-old Larry Charles, who was naked, with his 14-year-old goddaughter."
Yes, his 14-year-old goddaughter. Not only is this man given a position of trust within the girl's family and seen as a "mentor," but he is also seen as a person in a position of trust within our society as a lawyer.
This incident is indicative of what is wrong with our society. We entrust people with a sacred duty of looking out for those who require it. Sadly, wolves lurk to take advantage of those who look to others for guidance and help.
Sadly, it seems that increasingly, people do not have a moral compass. More and more we hear of people taking advantage of our youth. We kill them before they are born and now we are killing their spirits before they have had a chance to become fully grown.
I have always been of the belief that if someone wants to change his or her life, there is hope for that person and that person, in most cases, should be able to do so. What kind of hope does a girl like this have? Yes, she was in the juvenile justice system, but that does not mean she doesn't deserve a chance at life. She shouldn't expect that sexual abuse is normal behavior.
3 comments:
He has to have done this to others, too. That is the sickening part.
We live in such a sick world at times!!
Doesn't the girl have enough against her already, just living in an urban environment? The behavior that got her into the juvenile justice system is proably a by-product of what she has already endured at the hands of this ass.
I wish I had the answer for real urban renewal and helping kids (most of all). Ugh. We are just killing our future.
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