- For real: most incest cases never even see the inside of a criminal court. After all, it's a "family matter," so it goes to family court—a closed-to-the-public place where the courts power to punish the offender is not the issue … or the aim. It's a place of "healing." That's fine. That's as it should be. Because only the Family Courts can actually order the victim to receive counseling, order the offender out of the home, and even, in extreme cases, terminate parental rights. But the criminal courts should be waiting their turn, because only they can actually put offenders in prison. Most incest offenders are "diverted" from such a possibility. That's wrong.
- This poisonous tree has deep roots, none of them stronger than a decades-old movement that has provided not only the impetus to keep such "loophole" laws on the books, but also provided swell profits for all the "treatment providers."
- Instead of attacking the source of, perhaps, 90+% of all child sexual abuse in America, our "family-loving" government has spent fortunes on "good touch, bad touch" programs." So much easier to pretend that the danger's only from strangers, isn't it?
- http://www.protect.org/campaigns/success/94-new-york/731-a-long-time-coming-closing-new-yorks-incest-loophole
Today, July 27, 2006, I am especially proud to be a New Yorker. But I am even prouder to be a member of PROTECT!
It's been a long time coming, but the razor wind of justice is starting to gather strength for the hurricane brewing on the horizon. And, someday, all those who make sex slaves of their own children will feel its bite … on the prison yard.
To have played even the tiniest role in such an achievement is a great honor. This can be done. We proved it. And the quicker you join us, the quicker it will happen throughout our country.
Copyright © 2006 Andrew Vachss. All rights reserved.
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