Pseudo-Happy Ending

Lately, I have been talking a lot about an article for which Brendon emailed me a link that reports the awful world of investigating Internet child pornography.

Brendon’s emailed description of the original story published by the LA Times:

The [above] link goes to an LA Times article about special units dedicated to wiping out child porn/molestation. It is a great article and worth reading, but be forewarned, it will also make you really sad and/or mad. Put tears in my eyes and I almost stopped reading. Judge for yourselves… (and it’s probably worth sending up more than a few prayers for these kids and their offenders)

The main victim covered in the story (Disney World Girl, pictured left in a police photo) has been rescued and her adoptive father, the man believed to have taken the pictures is behind bars.

Here’s the Associated Press follow-up published on Yahoo News.

I call it a pseudo-happy ending because, yeah she is safe, but as the first article explains, they rescue less than five hundred victims per year. “We’re doing a terrible job,” [Sgt. Paul Gillespie of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit] says in his office at police headquarters. “Five hundred kids of 50,000? What is that?” Even after they rescue these children, the horror continues. Psychological trauma leaves deep, permanent scars. The victims will never lead normal lives.

Want to cry? Want to fight? Want to change the world?

Me too.

What now?

Shared Hope International is an organization already devoted to rescuing child-victims of sexual abuse. Nicole and I have been donors for nearly a year now. It’s something about which we feel very passionate. We hate reading the newsletters delivered to our mailbox which detail one or two stories of a fraction of the horror innocent children endure as much as we hated reading the LA Times article, but it is important not to ignore this. It is important to take the red pill (Matrix reference). Ignorance and complacence enables this torturing and killing of innocent children to continue.

Take a look.
Read Inez’s Story.
Then, do what your heart tells you.

This is a call to action!