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The
Criminalization of Youth
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Letter
to NAMBLA
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My Son's Story
What some professionals call
"helping."
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by
-- call me Ishmael
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three years ago
my ten-year-old son was taken from his home by the department of health
and welfare. the reason for this was that my son suffers from
Asperger’s syndrome and was having problems adapting to the public
school system. as I was fooled into believing the hype that he
needed "help," he was placed in a treatment center. while in this
so called treatment center, one that handles only boys, he began going
through puberty and befriended one of the other boys, an 11 year old
boy with a mild form of Tourette’s syndrome. to make a long story
short, he was discovered initiating a sexual encounter between himself
and his new friend, and this encounter was caught on one of the
security cameras at the facility. the encounter was mutually
consensual and the doctor who viewed the tape and talked to me about
it, described the encounter as "tender, in fact I would say it appeared
to be very loving and affectionate."
because this happened in a state run facility, the law was called in
and became involved. and even though the police found that no
crime had been committed, the Doctors labeled my son a sexual
predator. my son is now in a different "treatment facility" that
houses criminal offenders and the decision about when he comes home is
no longer up to me. after the encounter I spent some time talking
to my son and let him know that he did not do anything wrong and that
straight, gay or bi made no difference to me, whatsoever -- I loved him
unconditionally. however, with the problems he would face at this
facility after being outed, the best thing to do would be to bring him
home.
this is when things become insane. my son's case worker had
started court proceedings to have my son made a ward of the state, and
forcibly took away my right to take my son home. Now understand,
my son NEVER committed any kind of sex crime, but is now in a
"treatment
facility" for juvenile sex offenders in another state, and the other
boy
has also been forcibly removed from his parents and is in another
facility.
Why?
Because they loved one another and engaged in a tender and loving act
of sex that culminated in mutual oral sex. had this happened when
they
were 18 or older they would both be with their families, and perhaps
they would be starting their lives together as a couple. but they
were 10&11. Had this sort of thing happened at either me and
my son's home or the other boy's home, and they had been
discovered. it would have been called playing post office or
playing doctor. something that just about everyone on the face of
the planet joyfully experienced as a part of growing up, but it
happened in a boys hospital run by the state. so now these two
boys are labeled as sexual deviants and are ripped from their families
and are locked up in a "treatment facility" as it is called by the
state. but the locks on the doors and the bars on the windows
tell me it is a prison for children being discussed as a behavior
treatment center.
Parents be WARNED: Never let any case worker or health and welfare
bastard tell you that they want to help your child. tens of
thousands of our children are locked away under the guise of treatment
every year, for doing nothing more than engaging in normal healthy
sexual experimentation. some are even placed in facilities with
convicted rapists, and violent sexual predators. the number of
kids that are being treated as if they are criminals is reaching
epidemic proportions.
if you think that what I have described to you is an isolated and
extreme case, I challenge you to look for yourself at the statistics on
the age of inmates -- or as health workers call them, patients
undergoing treatment for aberrant sexual behavior in the country.
the numbers will shock you. not only by the age but also the
amount. and in many many cases the only thing that these kids are
guilty of is in engaging in some kind of consensual sexual activity
with other kids that are peers.
it is time we put a stop to this, right now the only option left to me
is to try to play along with the state until I can get my son home and
undo all of the damage done to him by this experience, and if I don't
"toe the line" and do what they want me to do, I may never see my son
out side a treatment center until he is 18 and can leave without the
permission of these bastards.
as for me, once my son is free. my white whale will be the laws
and the lawmakers who are treating our kids like criminals. once
he is free I will do anything I can to see to it that this never
happens to another family. If I could work my will, all of the
people that are responsible for the disgusting and abhorrent way our
kids are being brainwashed into thinking something is wrong with them,
would be locked away and punished in exactly the way they are doing to
my son, with one difference. they would not have some magic age
that would allow them to walk out, they would be locked away in a deep
dark place, they would never see the light of day, and would be looked
after by people that punished them for having any kind of thought or
behavior even remotely related to sex. it makes me wonder how
they would handle being punished for masturbation after any possibility
of engaging in sexual contact with any living soul had been taken from
them.
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Letter
addressed to NAMBLA, received by e-mail, January, 2008.
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Copyright
© NAMBLA, 2008.
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