Possible sex abuse ring in MO, more on the Ft. Hood shooter, & Mike Tyson in trouble again
About 30 miles east of Kansas City (and 60 miles east of Lawrence, KS, where I live), law enforcement is searching some rural property where six adults have alleged that they were sexually abused as children in the 1980′s and 90′s. Targets of the search reportedly include jars buried by the children containing contemporaneous written accounts of the alleged abuse and possibly even human remains. Five older adults, all males and apparently related to one another, are in custody. If the allegations are true, they’re stomach-turning and reminiscent of both the Fritzl case (the “dungeon” guy in Austria) and the Rinehart case (also in Missouri, not far from the scene that’s currently being searched). The now-grown children allege a lengthy list of abuses including being forced to have sex with a dog, being raped, and in one case, being impregnated and forced to have an abortion at age 11. That last reported incident raises an important point that came up during the investigation of the late Dr. George Tiller’s abortion practice here in Kansas.
If a licensed physician performed an abortion on an 11-year-old girl, that doctor would’ve been required by law to report it to child protective services, for the obvious reason that a pregnant 11-year-old, by legal definition, would’ve been a victim of sexual abuse. Abortion practitioners have cited “patient privacy” in repeatedly disregarding such reporting requirements, and here’s a perfect example of why that’s bogus. If in fact this woman had an abortion when she was 11 years old, and if the physician performing the abortion failed to report it, then that physician helped to perpetuate the horrific abuse of several children for years thereafter when he/she might’ve helped to stop it by simply following the law. An 11-year-old is not competent to consent to sexual activity, nor is she competent to invoke her privacy rights and decline to report a sex crime against her, which is why health care professionals who come into contact with her have a duty to act in her best interests, not in their own best interests and not in the best interests of the adult(s) paying the bill. Patient privacy is important, but health care professionals should never be allowed to break the law and then hide behind their patients’ “privacy” to avoid facing charges and/or losing their licenses.
Several days after last week’s massacre at Ft. Hood, it’s looking more and more like the shooter was ideologically-motivated. You heard it here first! We’re now hearing that the shooter had been in contact with a radical cleric who actively encouraged his followers to kill Americans, especially members of the U.S. military. We’re also hearing that the shooter wore religious attire and shouted religious verbiage prior to the attack. Sure, psychological factors like narcissism (manifesting as extreme indignation about perceived “disrespect” from fellow servicemen and women) and anxiety (manifesting as cowardice in the face an impending deployment overseas, where he still would’ve been working out of harm’s way in a field hospital) may have contributed, but I’d bet that those contributions, if any, were secondary and mainly affected the timing of the attack. Additionally disturbing are reports that federal law enforcement agencies had actually discovered the shooter’s anti-American associations and communications prior to the massacre (you’ve heard that here before, too — that there are always warning signs), yet the shooter was allowed to remain in a position to carry out the attack. Now I’m generally a big proponent of law enforcement (I’m the son of a career federal law enforcement officer), but if these reports of inaction in the face of alarming information are true, they illustrate what could be an extremely dangerous development which demands immediate corrective action — law enforcement agencies so afraid of being accused of ethnic or religious “profiling” that they’ll actually delay taking action to neutralize a potential threat, perhaps until it’s too late, as it appears may have happened in the Ft. Hood case.
Former boxer Mike Tyson is in trouble…again. This time, he’s been detained at Los Angeles International Airport for allegedly hitting a photographer. Shocking.
