No one suspected a thing
OK, I took the following excerpt off of CNN dot COM. I don't link 'cause the stories go away and you end up with a dead link. I hate that. There was also a photo I tried to include, but apparently the Associated Press frowns on that kind of thing, so I blew it off. But I can say this, if you were going to take a picture that would make people know at a glance that someone was a predatory pervert, that would have been the picture to do it.
So anyway, how the heck can we adults not be better at spotting perverts? I say look for adults who are around kids a lot and investigate them all. Many will be on the up and up and you let them go back to work or coaching or whatever because we need those people. The rest, the ones who have done something before, you just throw into jail. No excuses, no caveats, just, "Sir, please step into the truck. We're going for a little ride." It is my understanding that their perversion is hardwired and unlikely to change, or even be kept under control. Since you can't make kids less trusting, make the pervs less, shall we say, mobile. Give 'em a serial number and three squares a day (Unless in Arizona where, God help 'em, the sherriff is crazy mean) courtesy of the state.
I am incredulous that after the stop in the desert this guy wasn't fired "just in case" and investigated thoroughly. How could any sane parent, check that, any sane adult not see the danger and just plain oddness of the situation. Alarm bells should have been going off all over the place. Seeing it in retrospect is...is...I don't even know how to adequately express the idiocy and derelection demonstrated. Read for yourself.
'No one suspected a thing'
When they first met, Schwartzmiller was coaching a youth football team. "I helped him coach," Kevan said. "The parents all thought he was great. No one suspected a thing."
In retrospect, there were signs something was wrong -- like the time he took the team to a game in Boise, and they "stopped in the desert to do a jock strap check." Kevan said he was not on the bus at the time, and only later realized that Schwartzmiller may have been picking out potential victims.
Apoplectic, out
Travelin' Ed
So anyway, how the heck can we adults not be better at spotting perverts? I say look for adults who are around kids a lot and investigate them all. Many will be on the up and up and you let them go back to work or coaching or whatever because we need those people. The rest, the ones who have done something before, you just throw into jail. No excuses, no caveats, just, "Sir, please step into the truck. We're going for a little ride." It is my understanding that their perversion is hardwired and unlikely to change, or even be kept under control. Since you can't make kids less trusting, make the pervs less, shall we say, mobile. Give 'em a serial number and three squares a day (Unless in Arizona where, God help 'em, the sherriff is crazy mean) courtesy of the state.
I am incredulous that after the stop in the desert this guy wasn't fired "just in case" and investigated thoroughly. How could any sane parent, check that, any sane adult not see the danger and just plain oddness of the situation. Alarm bells should have been going off all over the place. Seeing it in retrospect is...is...I don't even know how to adequately express the idiocy and derelection demonstrated. Read for yourself.
'No one suspected a thing'
When they first met, Schwartzmiller was coaching a youth football team. "I helped him coach," Kevan said. "The parents all thought he was great. No one suspected a thing."
In retrospect, there were signs something was wrong -- like the time he took the team to a game in Boise, and they "stopped in the desert to do a jock strap check." Kevan said he was not on the bus at the time, and only later realized that Schwartzmiller may have been picking out potential victims.
Apoplectic, out
Travelin' Ed
That's what I'm about. Ramblin' Ed at 4:08 PM
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