wheatpenny opened this issue on Mar 21, 2005 ยท 425 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 21 March 2005 at 5:46 PM
There have always been child molesters, Probably the same amount in any given year as there are now
Sorry, friend....but that just isn't true.
There was a famous case in the mid-1950's of the sexual torture and murder of three preteen boys -- their nude bodies were left dumped on the side of a highway. The perp was only recently brought to justice. Several decades later.
One comment that I saw made on the news by a (now retired) law enforcement officer who had originally been involved on the case back then.....
.....had to do with the fact that while such crimes are more-or-less commonplace nowadays -- back then, it simply didn't happen. Nothing like the numbers today.
You are correct insofar as there never having been a "golden time of innocence", totally free from these types of crimes.
But there is no question that it's far more common in the current era.
As I mentioned earlier, children used to ride their bikes everywhere.
People used to leave their doors unlocked, too.
If you do either one of these things nowadays, then you are living on the edge of uninvited trouble.
No....the "old days" weren't innocent. But neither were they a repeat of even older days. Like we are "enjoying" now.