Monday, March 26, 2007

Making Mark Foley Look Like a Piker Takes Some Doing

Sadly enough, this family of three repulsive cretins made Congressman Mark Foley sending perverted IMs to an underage male page seem almost acceptable. With the hideous details from Sister Toldjah, excerpted below, my heart is sick, my stomach turns, and my mind races with questions. When does it even start to sound like a good idea to molest a six year old boy? How could anyone with a heart or soul ignore his surely desperate and pathetic pleas to stop hurting him? This was a mother, father, and son trio that apparently raped and murdered this child...I wonder what the rapist father and masturbating mother would think or feel if someone did to their son what they did to young Christopher Barrios? Sad doesn't begin to do this case justice, and the D.A. is right to seek the death penalty against these freak shows. If there's an upside here, it's that the case will be tried in Georgia, a red state with about as much tolerance for sex offenders as Texas and which isn't afraid to impose the death penalty in the right case. These three monsters are entitled to the same due process as anyone else, but once convicted, I wouldn't want to be them in jail...and regardless, I DEFINITELY wouldn't want to be them in the afterlife trying to explain this one to God.

"Earlier this evening, I was sitting here at my computer blogging and heard some chatter close by. I looked outside my window and saw that one of my neighbors was outside working on his car (putting on a spare tire), and his son - who is probably about five or six years old - was out there with him. I gazed out the window from time to time, as I would hear the young boy laughing and talking. One minute, he’d be riding his scooter, and another minute he’d be inquiring to his dad about what he was doing. At one point, his dad started showing the little guy how to screw in (or unscrew?) a lugnut (I think that’s what they’re called) from a wheel. The dad let his son give it a try, with a little assistance, of course. I thought it was absolutely adorable. Dad and son doing ‘manly’ stuff, with the dad showing eternal patience and the son showing an inquisitiveness that is unique and special to children.

However, one family in Savannah, GA, though, won’t get to experience those same joys of watching their six-year old son ride a scooter, or change a tire, because his life was extinguished by a sexual predator who lived across the street from him - but not before the predator, and other members of his family, acted out their sick twisted ‘fantasies’ with the little boy. Bastards.

Later in the story, it mentions that Christopher Barrios disappeared after playing alone outside his house.

My prayers and thoughts go out to his parents, who are going through what NO parent should ever have to go through. Parents shouldn’t be burying their children. It’s supposed to be the other way around.

That said, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve driven by young kids in the neighborhood I work in walking down the street with no adult supervision, playing in their yards with no one in sight. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve sat in a restaurant and seen kids left alone in their seats while the adult goes to get napkins, or salt or whatever. When I worked at the mall in my younger years, I distinctly remember a time when a mother came into the store I worked in, with a young boy of about seven and also a young baby in a stroller. She walked around the store pushing the stroller, and she hadn’t even been in the store for five minutes before her son started running up the stairs to the second floor of the mall. And she didn’t even know it. I had to tell her. It bears repeating again and again: when they are together, whether at home or at a store, or wherever, people should never, ever let their kids out of their sight. It only takes a second for them to vanish.

Whatever state you live in, you should be able to go to your official state government website and look up sex offenders for your area, so you’ll know whether or not one is living close by. ... Know who is living around you so you can be better prepared to protect yourself and your loved ones from needlessly suffering at the hands of the ruthless."