Weeping for Shasta and Dylan

Warning: If you don't like F bombs, then you might not want to read further - because I'm out of character lately, spilling with angry emotion.

I wish I could be more positive these days, but the truth is, I'm heartsick. I'm angry! I'm in a major blue funk over these children...darling, innocent children. I'm sick to death of hearing that some sick person out on PAROLE had his way with and took the life of a sweet and innocent child. It's alarming that nearly every day I hear of a new case.

Isn't it alarming? Aren't you freaking angry?

WHY IS THIS CONTINUING TO HAPPEN?

If you're reading this...please ask yourself, "AM I ANGRY ENOUGH TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS DAMMIT or WILL I JUST SAY 'AWW THAT'S TOO BAD' AND GO ON WITH MY DAY?" well, I am ANGRIER THAN EVER. I'm angry enough for YOU and everyone else. I'm FURIOUS.

I have children and I know how absolutely innocent and sweet and loving and darling and SMALL they are, how precious their little hearts are - they are gold in the face of these monsters.

Dylan didn't have to die. He shouldn't have. Shasta should have never ever met this sick person. Because of people in power not making the right decisions to keep these sick people off the streets, another child is dead and a girl child is struggling right now to make sense of her emotional and physical pain. I don't even want to imagine what she's been through for the past 6 weeks. My mind doesn't want to wrap around it because I know from personal experience how terrifying and devastating assault can be. But I can't imagine being 7 or 8 or 9 and having to deal with someone's fucked up fancy of torture.

I want to do something - but so frequently I feel so helpless and powerless. I want to DO SOMETHING to make a change so that children don't have to experience the wrath of these FUCKED UP individuals anymore.

The problem with this news is, it's TOO much information, so much for us to handle. What can we do? How are we supposed to process this stuff and go on living our daily lives?

If you saw a sick man on the street with a knife ready to stab people because he's crazy he'd be behind bars or locked up in a hospital ASAP right? He could be committed right? We wouldn't let sick people out that would likely kill people so why the hell are we letting people out on PAROLE that have committed acts against children in the past? WHY? WHY? Don't they understand that pedophiles don't change? They don't heal. They aren't capable of being normal. Some freaking psychotherapy doesn't change them.

In this lifetime, mark my words - I will do something to make a difference for the lives and safety of our children. I don't say that lightly.