SModcast 32

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1. 

   November 19, 2008

   Twister

   By far, the dumbest person in all of this was the female manager.

   The girl was probably terrified, especially after 3 hours of being held in the back room…buy her boss and then by a strange man, so she probably did it out of fear/intimidation more than anything.

   The Fiance thing was creepy. He probably knew it was bullshit and decided to coerce a blowjob out of it. Why the manager called her fiance instead of say, another mcdonalds staff member or manager is also kind of suspect.

   It’s so far outside common sense you have to wonder if the whole thing was set up before hand – some guy on the internet puts an add up for a scheme for violating co-workers or some thing.

   And why didn’t anyone call the actual police? I mean if she was crying and the janitor saw what was going on, why didn’t anyone think to call the police?
2. 

   February 23, 2009

   Kelly

   Sadly, there’s far more tragedy here than is discussed on the cast. The child rapist who killed himself is not likely to only have the one victim. A rapist is several times as likely to attack someone he knows than a stranger. We can only pray that he did not victimize his own children and the children of people who trusted him. These children would be less likely to get proper treatment. And here’s the rub,–without that treatment, 50% of those children he’s victimized will themselves grow up to be abusers.

   Even worse, nobody’s really sure how many children in the United States are victims of sexual abuse. There are some who claim that as many as 1/4 children are sexual trauma survivors. These figures, though useful in treatment and prevention, also threaten to reduce perception of the problem to just a perverse math equation.

   I don’t know what should be done with the man who tried to ruin the little girl’s future; and I don’t care as long as he is never free to try it again. But we cannot forget that long after he’s gone, what he did has the potential to destroy lives. Contain the man, but it’s far more important to contain the damage.