Originally posted by Beyond Anyone here ever been abused as a child? I was in my foster home and then later when I was adopted my uncle started in. Anyone else go through this?

Thank you for being so open with the bowl! It must take a lot of courage for someone who has been in that situation to express it later on in life.

Fortunately, I was never physically abused by guardians- However I experienced psychological abuse - which to this day I still think back on. I've had to re-learn how to think, and re-learn how to react to life. There are many things that feel like they will always be an issue. Like whether or not someone is telling you the truth about something, etc. If you want to discuss more I'll gladly PM with you

Originally posted by Beyond Here's what got me started on today's topic makes me sic Kiddie porn pervert fined $10,000 Thursday, August 15, 2002 ADVERTISEMENT WINNIPEG -- A Winnipeg man who downloaded 258 images of children participating in sex acts has been ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. Fifty-five-year-old Thomas Woroby pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography and was handed one of the larger fines ever imposed for the crime. Justice Cathy Everett says every month when Woroby makes a payment, every month when he makes a financial sacrifice, she wants him to think about his victims. Police arrested Woroby last year after they seized his computer and found the photos of children engaged in sex acts. He had used his credit card to buy the images from at least four Web sites. Woroby looked away and cried when a sample of the photos was shown in the courtroom. Roxroy West, Woroby's lawyer, says his client had the pictures because of curiosity and did not find them sexually gratifying.

All this S.O.B. got was a fine? Certain people just get away too easily.

The priorities of the world are completely mental. That's about all I can say.

Every time one of these cases shows up on the news, my sister always says "They should chop it right off! How easy would that be? Problem solved." I tend to agree with her. Heck, it works in those Arab countries and Singapore.

I was never sexually abused but there is other forms of abuse wich i was subject to, I left when I was 12 & never returned.

I personally have never had anything happen to me, but when I was
8 years old I had a friend & she told me her mom used to have parties
& put her in her room but never checked on her, & some of the male friends
would touch her & she told me this so we told the school counciler who
called her mom & her mom said she lies alot, a couple months later
on the school announcements we were asked for a moment of silence
& then we were told that she had died. the newspaper said she was in her
room & one of her moms drinking buddies, went in raped her & then strangled
her to death so she wouldn't tell, he only did 10 years prison time.
nobody wants to do anything they just look the other way, but if it were an important persons child
like a politician or police officer, things would be totally different when it comes to punishment.
a child is innocent & should have way more protection & rights. castration should be seriously
considerd, no more excuses for these sick people, death penalty is also an option in this case.
they will never get rehabilitated, what a load of crap wasting money on helping the predators
spend more on the victems, the ones who live.