Addressing Parental Fears

I heard once that the only way to overcome evil is to address people’s fears.
So let’s address them.
 

- SMAC'M Director

     There are over 500,000 throughout the United States. And those are just the ones who were CAUGHT, then actually CONVICTED (which is no small feat), served their time, and were later released. These numbers don’t come close to the actual number of offenders out there, and we know it. There are child molesters running around free because they weren’t convicted, or the police didn’t have enough evidence to file charges in the first place – or, most commonly, the predators haven’t been caught at all. And, unless we draw this subject out and deal with it openly, they never will be. They will molest children until those children grow up, and then they’ll molest children from the next generation. And with the ever-increasing human life span, they could be around to molest a third generation, and maybe even a fourth.
     There are more cases being reported every day, and the top experts estimate that for every case that is reported, at least two more go unreported.
     So how in the world can we contain this threat and eliminate it? Doesn’t it all look totally overwhelming?
     You’re cringing by now, thinking about looking up something else up on the Internet; maybe Sports scores or accessories you can buy for your house. I know, and I understand that, believe me.
     But here’s the reality of the situation: We can turn away, saying, "It’s too horrible to think about."     

We have that option because we are adults, and we are in charge of our own lives. But little kids don’t have that luxury. They can’t say, "No thanks – being molested is just too horrible to think about, so I’m not going to allow it into my life."

     ….. Someone has to deal with it, whether it’s us, as citizens, facing the problem together, to destroy it --- or children, facing it, alone, in the dark…scared…never knowing when it’s going to happen again. It hurts us at SMAC'M tremendously to think about this and deal with the issue. …But, if someone has to deal with it, we would much rather that someone be one of us than some helpless little kid.

     So what do we do? We:
 

-Get rid of the ones we know about, through conviction and incarceration.

-Prevent new ones from appearing.

-In the meantime, make children less vulnerable.

-Help heal the pain already created by child molesters.

Go to the "What Can I Do?" page

to learn more.