Huge pedophile ring busted

[bigred]

I knew this woman at college who told me her first "sexual experience" was her boyfriend raping her on the back lawn. That's gotta be wonderful. And she wasn't even a little kid at the time.

How sad that we are so "civilized" (spineless) that punishments such as castration for such a thing makes everyone wince...

 

[Darat]

If we weren't so "civilised" we probably wouldn't think there had been any crime committed.

 

[tek]

How sad that we are so "civilized" (spineless) that punishments such as castration for such a thing makes everyone wince...

Brilliant. Maybe we can cut off the hands of thieves and the tongues of liars while we're at it.

Despicable as the crimes may be, the Constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment.

 

[Darat]

Brilliant. Maybe we can cut off the hands of thieves and the tongues of liars while we're at it.

Despicable as the crimes may be, the Constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment.

What do expect it's a Liberal (with capital L) constitution after all - spineless bunch those Founding Fathers!

 

[bigred]

Brilliant. Maybe we can cut off the hands of thieves and the tongues of liars while we're at it.

Speaking of brilliant, nice analogies. For starters, FYI lying in itself isn't a crime. Don't quit your civil service job to bercome a lawyer.

Talk to me after your mother/sister/daughter is raped o brilliant one.

Despicable as the crimes may be, the Constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment.

and-?

 

[Corsair 115]

For starters, FYI lying in itself isn't a crime.

Uh, it certainly can be. Lying while testifying during a trial, for example, is considered a crime. Lying on your tax return is considered a crime, for another example.

 

[Art Vandelay]

If you search Google with "india child abuse statistics", you will learn that 53% of children recently polled in India reported having been indecently abused in the past. Of these children 70% had never told anyone about it.

Except the complete stranger that is asking incredibly personal questions?

Read 'em and weep....

http://www.freewebs.com/tamarllc/thestats.htm

Maybe I'm a snob, but I find it hard to take someone seriously when they can't even spell "perish" or "its" correctly. And why are you linking to a site that simply repears the claim?

Other questions raised by the site:

30-40% of victims are abused by a family member.
Another 50% are abused by someone outside of the family whom they know and trust.
Approximately 40% are abused by older or larger children whom they know.
Therefore, only 10% are abused by strangers.

Uhh... that doesn't make any sense.

The median age for reported abuse is 9 years old.
More than 20% of children are sexually abused before the age of 8.

Was the intended claim "20% of children who are abused are abused before the age of 8"? If so, that would mean that 30% are abused at exactly 9 years.

Over 30% of victims never disclose the experience to ANYONE.

And how was that determined?

Of those who do disclose, approximately 75% disclose accidentally. Additionally, of those who do disclose, more than 20% eventually recant even though the abuse occurred.
Fabricated sexual abuse reports constitute only 1% to 4% of all reported cases.

What does "accidentally" mean? How do they know how many accusations are real?

More than 75% of teenage prostitutes have been sexually abused.

Assuming that most teenage prostitutes are underage, isn't that pretty much true by definition?

It does list sources, but there's no statement as to which statistics come from which source, or where in the source it comes, and it looks like there are more sources listed than there are statistics.

All in all, I smell BS.

 

[Tailgater]

Except the complete stranger that is asking incredibly personal questions?

Depends on the poll. Might have been a form to fill out.

Maybe I'm a snob, but I find it hard to take someone seriously when they can't even spell "perish" or "its" correctly. And why are you linking to a site that simply repears the claim?

I don't understand this sentence because I don't know what you mean by "repears". I linked the site because it had alot of sources to find further information from, and had the 1 in 4 women stat being discussed right on top. Even if some of the statistics are vague in meaning, I find it sad.

30-40% of victims are abused by a family member.
Another 50% are abused by someone outside of the family whom they know and trust.
Approximately 40% are abused by older or larger children whom they know.
Therefore, only 10% are abused by strangers.

Other questions raised by the site:
Uhh... that doesn't make any sense.

100 victims.
30-40 abused by a family member.
50 abused by someone outside family they trust
The 40% is confusing. Could be 40% of the 50 outside the family or 40% of the overall 90%. Either way, it is irrelevant to the final statistic of 10% being abused by strangers.

All in all, I smell BS.

While the site is a little sloppy and some statistics poorly copied from original sources, it shows enough of a slice to be disgusted. Your BS meter is going off more over a matter of percentage points and typos than it is over an overall problem.

 

[bigred]

Uh, it certainly can be. Lying while testifying during a trial, for example, is considered a crime. Lying on your tax return is considered a crime, for another example.

Again: lying IN ITSELF isn't a crime. The examples you cite aren't simply about lying.