Blue Eyes

During my 15 or so years within the legal system, the most disheartening cases were those of the children.  I recall taking a statement from a small girl, age around 8, blonde hair, freckles popping out on her nose and the biggest blue eyes that stayed just filled with tears while she told the detective what her father did to her.  If I tell you I went home and get blindly drunk afterward, would you understand?   There were many more blue eyes I looked into before I couldn’t take anymore.  I don’t work in the legal system anymore — my sanity depends on it.

BUT - I still remember her blue eyes.  They haunt me sometimes in my sleep when I hear about children being abused by a family member, or neighbor, because to me that’s the worst form of betrayal a child will ever know.  I don’t have children, but they are the best of what we are together.  Only God could have thought to take part of two and make one that brings so much joy and hope to parents and family members.  My co-worker is due with her second child, a girl, in September, and knowing her, her husband, and her 1 year old, I know she’ll have blue eyes.  My neices have blue eyes. 

We all remember Jessica Lunsford, who was abducted by a neighbor in Flordia, sexully assualted and murdered right under her parents’ noses.  Bill O’Reilly has been on the bandwagon to get a version of Jessica’s law passed in every state of union, and this mission gets a great deal of his time on and off air.  As it should be.  From the Bill first inacted in Flordia:

Jessica Lunsford Act; creates Jessica Lunsford Act; revises sexual predator criteria; requires twice yearly reregistration by sexual predators; provides criminal offenses for failing to reregister, failing to respond to address verification, failing to report or providing false information about sexual predator, & harboring or concealing sexual predator; requires electronic monitoring for certain offenders placed on conditional release supervision, etc.

A good portion of the states in this country have already passed a version of Jessica’s Law, as noted by the map on Bill’s website here.  According to this map, there are 10 states without a law to protect their children.  I was pleased to find that my state has passed a law and Trelaina’s state is heading in the “right direction” on this legislation.

We worry about our borders, terrorism, taxes, who is going to be voted in or out in the next election — but aren’t the blue eyes of this country more important?  Yes, we can protect them from sickness with shots, teach them how to read and write, but why are so many states in this country not willing to protect the children with a registry of those that have violated their trust?  What “rights” do these vile human beings have when they have so betrayed the innocents of our country? 

I personally don’t give a damn if their lives are “disrupted” or if they are “embarassed” from the attention they would get because of these law.  THEY chose to violate the most beautiful of our society, they chose to distroy — let them suffer.

On Bill’s site you can click on your state and e-mail your governor to tell them how you feel about this important law.  For those of you in those states that are dragging their feet, remind them of the blue eyes of the innocent.  How can you look into a child’s face and know that you’ve done nothing to protect them as much as possible?

I hope the blue eyes of my story haunts those that fight against this law - until they go insane.

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