It’s clearly not a crime
If you are rich.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Pedophilia is ok in the united states and we all just collectively agreed to pretend it isn’t. It’s clearly not a crime or we’d make more of a deal out of prosecution. It’s certainly not a deal breaker when your favorite politician or famous person does it. I used to think it was a coincidence that everyone I know was molested as a child, that maybe we gravitate to each other as an unspoken solidarity. The Epstein situation has made that hard to believe.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
atro_city@fedia.io 2 days ago
It's not OK for you, it's OK for them because they are powerful.
stoly@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I agree. There’s very little funding for services that protect children. Foster children are commonly sent out of state due to lack of resources and are completely lost out in the system somewhere.
palordrolap@fedia.io 2 days ago
It's not about any one crime, although the one you mention is a pretty hot topic. The real problem is that all crimes are null and void if you have enough money. Sometimes that money is from someone who thinks it's beneficial to them to save your bacon, but nonetheless, it's legalised bribery that nullifies the crime.
Sure it's not "bribe a cop on the street" levels of corruption that you (allegedly) get in some other countries, but it's corruption all the same.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s the thing, I already accepted that crimes are legal of you pay for them, that’s something I learned in elementary school, but when you start opening up about sexual abuse, you find that more people have experience than not. It’s not just the famous or powerful, it’s older cousins, uncles, aunts, babysitters, friends or their families, grand parents, teachers, strangers at the park, neighbors, and every other possible connection.
There’s 27 people I can think of that have candidly told me about the abuse they experienced and only one of them lead to legal reprocussions. We’re taught to keep it secret either because we don’t truely understand it until it’s far later or when we bring it up we’re told that it didn’t happen. When we hear about those arrested for it, they were often victims in their own time.
CPS investigates about 300,000 child sexual assault cases annually and experts suggest that as few as 10% actually get reported to begin with. If those numbers are accurate then around 37% of children in the us will be molested in their lifetime. 1 in 13 Americans is a molested child.
In comparison, Jews are 1 in 42, muslims are 1 in 91, Pacific islanders are 1 in 333, transgender adults are 1 in 167. In a general dispersal, for every 11 Mexicans you’ve met, you’ve likely met 8 children that have been sexually assaulted. It’s not money that lets you molest children, it’s the culture. It’s fine as long as no one else has to know about it. So the crime isn’t the act, it’s being bad at doing it.