Why Do the Courts Protect Child Murderers and Rapists but Not the Children?
give them ten times more pain than their victims suffered. Normal people have a hard time reading these news accounts, as they’re too barbaric to even imagine, let alone reach an understanding that this actually happened to a child. We avert our eyes and silently pray it never happens to one of ours, feeling pity and sorrow for the victim and the family. You wonder how in God’s name someone could do these things to another human being — to an infant, a toddler, a young child. The local and national news outlets have no shortage of these stories, slamming us in our faces with yet another horrific tale. Are we becoming desensitized against assaults on children? Are our psychological skins getting too thick to react to these atrocities? A three-year-old child has no protection, guaranteed by law, like other groups and individuals have. Some examples are crimes involving the violation of a person’s civil rights (usually meant in the context of an African-American or other minority victim)
