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Texas Passes Death Penalty For Ongoing Sexual Abuse Of Children
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by silenthunder | March 6, 2007 at 06:06 am
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Passing the bill 118-23 the Texas Legislature has sent to the state senate a bill authorizing the death penalty for those who have been found guilty of ongoing sexual abuse of children defined as twice within thirty days sexually victimizing children.
However the same legislature still appears reluctant to pursue those state employees who have done the same thing.
Pleading for the immediate intervention of the Texas Rangers in the ongoing scandal, Rep. Jim Dunnam D-Waco stated; "Send in the Texas Rangers now. The safety of our children is at stake."
The only personnel invited so far by Special Master Jay Kimbrough has been state auditors.
"With all due respect, dispatching a couple of minivans of accountants to investigate serious allegations of criminal sexual abuse at a state agency and a criminal cover up of that abuse is like sending H&R Block to investigate a serial killer." stated Rep. Dunnam.
A tape recording of a March, 2005 Senate Criminal Justice Committee hearing released Monday clearly shows the former director of the Texas Youth Commission, Dwight Harris, notifying State Senator John Whitmire D-Houston and the members of his committee of the investigation of juveniles being sexually abused at the West Texas State School in Pyote, Texas.
Whitmire said Monday that he has no independent recall of Harris' testimony.
Lt. Governor David Dewhurst advised that authorities were searching TYC computer hard drives for "any attempt to erase information off the hard drives in the last several days".
Last year, TYC investigators found 13 cases of juveniles who had been sexually molested by staff members; none was prosecuted. The numbers of unreported incidents is still unknown.
On Monday. Genger Galloway, of Crockett, Texas gave tearful testimony before the Texas Legislature of discovering, four years ago, that her 15 year old son had been molested by a female TYC staff member as well as by another TYC student.
"He still bleeds when he goes to the bathroom", according to Galloway.
see interview
http://www.kxan.com/global/story.asp?s=1343812&displayHelp=true&displayHelp=true
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at 12:39 on March 7th, 2007
I have just posted an article from the Houston Chronicle. I hope this fills your request. The interview with Genger Galloway was only carried on KXAN as far as I can tell. I have Ms Galloway's home telephone number on file.
at 16:33 on March 7th, 2007
Additonal info can be found on silentthunder's other post...
at 05:49 on March 11th, 2007
Sexual molestation of children is the worst crime that can be committed - worse even than murder. At least, when you kill someone, they are dead. They can't be hurt anymore, and the family can grieve and eventually heal. When a child is abused, that child suffers every day for the rest of his or her life; and everyone else in the family suffers with them. If the child eventually marries, the spouse and their children suffer also, because awful psychological problems keep surfacing. Execution is almost too small a price for a child abuser to pay for the harm he causes. I know. I had a child who was abused. When I see an organization like the ACLU defending NAMBLA, I see red.
at 07:13 on March 11th, 2007
I agree that sexual abuse in and of itself is bad enough. Believe it or not children feel a great deal of guilt over the event. What many parents fail to realize is that when they show the understandable rage that any parent would normally feel; the child can and in many instances will interpret the rage of the parent as affirming the guilt they already feel.
When one is in a family where something like this has happened, a great deal of healing is called for. The entire family is injured.
It is even more unfortunate that, at least in America, the most dangerous place for a woman or a child is within the home.
at 08:54 on April 7th, 2007
Sex Offenders!
Many are repeat sex offenders. I agree with all of you, it's a life time of being a survivor! Of the 550,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S., 100,000 are unaccountable. These repeat offenders NEED to be dealt with more severly than what's happening today in most states.