Good point Google. After my post I thought about all those kids locked up after school. Are they safer in there? Like you say 90% of the perps are known. Makes the stranger danger parinoia that much more rediculous and harmful to child development.

As for the PS situation I am heart broken for how all this media and public attention is going to hurt them over the long term. It is one thing to have the courage to report it is another to have the strength to survive the fail out if they do.

This is going to set back reporting a long ways like it does every time a victim is splashed as a 'news story' of the week. Give it a week and the media and public will be on to something else until something stirs this up again and again and again.

If we cared for the victims we would not put them through any more hell to satisfy the judgemental voyourism of our society. If I put myself in their shoes all I would want is some privacy and time to heal. Keep me in this story and you victimize me again and again and again. All hope of healing snatched from the public opinion that says I will never get past the experience.

Society is so cruel. And we wonder why. I think our idea of supporting victims is seriously out of wack. There has to be a better way.