Rose by Inga Muscio

Author:Inga Muscio [Muscio, Inga]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60980-144-1
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2011-01-04T05:00:00+00:00

Somewhere out in the world is the man suspected of raping and killing an eight-year-old girl named April Tinsley on Good Friday in 1988.

He has never been caught, but surfaces from time to time and leaves notes for little girls, often on their bikes. In 2004, a five-year-old found a note. Here is what it said in part:

Hi Honey I Been watching you. I am the same person that kidnapped an Rape an kill Aproil tinsely here is a present foR yo you are my next vitem.

Enclosed with the note, inside a plastic bag, was a condom full of, ostensibly, his jizz.

He must feel very safe and must know that his DNA, if it is indeed his, is not in any database. One wonders how many children he has raped and not killed.

How many.

Recall that the average serial child molester may have as many as four hundred victims in his lifetime.

Let’s call that conservative and go with it.

In general, I think we can call pedophile priests serial rapists. They have endless access to children year after year, so let’s look there to find some statistics that will inevitably apply to all the other clergy, coaches, health-care workers, and anyone else who consciously designs their life around gaining parental trust and having unfettered access to children.

If you have Internet access, check out the Deliver Us from Evil website and click on the Map of Abuse. There you will see red stars on every single state. The states with the most stars have the most Catholics. Each star represents the number of priests accused of raping children in a specific location. By rolling your mouse over each star, the number of priests accused and the city in which they were accused is revealed.

Let’s have some math time.

In Wyoming, the state that seems to fare the best on this map, there are two accused priests in Cheyenne. At most, that would be eight hundred children. In Maine, another state with only one star, 44 priests stand accused. We could call this anything up to 17,600 children. In Illinois, there are 6 stars, adding up to 169 rapists. Multiply this by 400 and you get 67,600. So far, that potentially puts 86,000 kids on the same path as that drug addicted, ultimately deceased young man on Oprah who was raped by his coach. Rape puts kids at a high risk for slow-motion death sentences, after enduring a life filled with debilitating flashbacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, shame, and depression with little or no support or assistance from the community. A good percentage of those 85,460 kids in Wyoming, Maine, and Illinois will grow up and rape other kids.

Only with therapy, support, and love do people recover from this kind of childhood terrorization.

Raping a child causes deep harm to many people. It divides families, pits people against each other, and renders deep chasms of resentment in relationships. Most often—85 to 90 percent of the time, according to national child welfare statistics—the child knows his/her abuser quite well.

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