The Idaho Children’s Trust Fund says prevention is more important than focusing on penalties for offenders
The Idaho Children’s Trust Fund Executive Director Roger Sherman says when it comes to sexual abuse of children, the focus should be on prevention rather than focusing on penalties for offenders. (Idahonews.com, April 3, 2022)
Lauren’s Kids, which was founded by CEO Florida Senator Lauren Book, has a leaflet placed in all Florida car registration notices, saying, “Child abuse occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all religions and at all levels of education…but the solution is clear: 95 percent of child sexual abuse is preventable through education & awareness.”
The Idaho Children’s Trust Fund provides tools aimed at child sexual abuse prevention.
April has been designated Child Abuse Prevention Month since 1983. What is Florida’s solution to preventing child sexual abuse during the month of April? Trying to have information on the front of driver’s licenses in red for people on the sex offense registry and requiring reporting of 24-hour stays at vacation rentals.
From watching some of the committee meetings this past week in Tallahassee, I have learned that most of our legislators do not care about research, do not care if there are any negative consequences of the bills they pass, do not care how many law-abiding citizens are hurt by the passage of some of their bills, do not care if the bills they pass are constitutional, and do not care if they “get it wrong.”
We all know that the above-two-mentioned bills will do nothing to prevent child sexual abuse. So, how do we help our Florida Legislators understand this? I have mailed approximately 100 letters through the U.S. Mail to our legislators in the past few months. Additionally, we have many members who have “stepped up to the plate” and are calling and writing legislators. One member is in the process of writing all 160 legislators. No legislator is going to ever be able to say that “no one told them.”
WE MUST ALL KEEP UP THE FIGHT!!!
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Its the prevention that is good. The perverting is not. The exploiting of others via this computer is a bit coy in and of itself. I’m sure you will find out that many of these ordeals are fish expositions and yes … can we all say when police entice…….