Child Sex vs Child Abuse

Jovonna Williams

9-30-11

Professor Baylesss

Criminal Justice 169

Child Sex VS Child Abuse

Everything is bigger to a child, not only physically, but perceptually and emotionally, as well. A dollar found becomes a discovered treasure. A harsh word becomes a deafening declaration of war. A heap of dirty clothes in the corner becomes a nasty, fangled monster after the lights are out. A paper cut is a knife in the stomach. And a hug from a parent in times of fear becomes Piraeus’s shield, protecting them from Medusa’s deadly power. Everything is amplified in ways adults find hard to remember.

So can you begin to imagine, just for a moment, the terror, the pain, the agony and confusion experienced by a child whose every waking moment is marked by fear and nothing but?

Childhood is over soon under the best of circumstances; to strip a child of their trust, to despoil them of belief that those who love you will always protect and never harm you, to commit the obscenely of taking a child and simply, totally ruining their world, to destroy the joy in their innocent hearts….

It is, in my opinion, the most unpardonable and irredeemable of human crimes.

I have found through my own life experience not as me being a victim, by my only child. A beautiful baby girl, born 9lbs and 10oz and 21 and a half inches long. How would you know when they are born people that you love and trust as family would even think about hurting you own child. When she turned 5 years old her father had continued to think of me as a over protective mother and maybe he was right, but that was the only child I would ever had due to complications.

In the year of 1981, just after her 5th birthday, my husband had made up his mind that we were going out and leaving our daughter with his cousins. A single mom, with a 15 year old daughter, I was furious because, I had never left her with anyone except her grandmothers and myself, other the school. To keep the peace I...