The problem of child sexual abuse in the United States is far greater than most people realize. Sixty million American adults are sexual abuse survivors. Twenty percent of us. Thirty-nine million of the victims were abused before turning twelve years old. Because most of them will never tell anyone about their experiences, the scope of the problem remains largely a hidden evil.

One in four girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before reaching eighteen.

Why is so little being done to stop it?

During the 70’s and early 80’s I worked for the Illinois Legislative Investigating Commission, eventually becoming the Chief Investigator. More commonly known as the Illinois Crime Investigating Commission, the agency was created to attack organized crime and official misconduct. Because of that focus, we were directed to investigate the rising instances of child pornography and child prostitution that we were seeing throughout the country.

It was well known that vice activities were dominated by organized crime. So it stood to reason that the outfit was responsible for sexually exploiting growing numbers of children as well. That theory proved to be untrue.

Ninety percent of abuse victims are abused by someone they know. Sixty percent are abused by a family member. Almost twelve percent of students who graduate from high school are victims of educator sexual misconduct sometime between kindergarten and twelfth grade. The mob was not behind it.

The sexual exploitation of children turned out to be something beyond what anybody thought.

Our investigation uncovered a range of horrors none of our investigators ever expected and it led to an almost eight-year investigation into every aspect of the issue—the victims, the families, the perpetrators, the social service agencies, the health workers, the police and detectives, the prosecutors, the entire judicial system. It was all a mess. Nothing worked smoothly. There was little or no cooperation or coordination between and among agencies. Every facet of the system was riddled with incompetence and indifference.

There is no easy solution.

We contacted every police department in the state and interviewed scores of detectives about sex abuse cases they handled. What became very clear immediately was most detectives did not like being assigned these cases. A downstate detective told me one time he heard over the radio the call come in about a child being sexually abused. Immediately, he said, he hid under his desk until the supervisor assigned it to someone else.

The cases were depressing, even more so than homicides. And because the conviction rates were so poor and because they sometimes involved prominent people in the community, they were seen as career killers. Today, these cases generally are handled by specialists. But there are not enough of them.

As a way to improve the overall system, we drafted the initial enabling legislation for what has now become known as the Child Advocacy Centers. There were none back then. Today there are over 800 around the country and, for a time, they were performing a coordinating function that was very effective. Based on indicators I’ve seen recently, I am not sure that is true anymore. In Illinois they seemed to have lost touch with the original intended purpose. I have seen a similar erosion of purpose in other states as well.

During the 70’s, prosecutors were reluctant to take on cases involving child sexual abuse because convictions were hard to get. That remains the situation today. Prosecutors often take plea deals that don’t involve the perpetrator admitting to a sex offense. Or, they agree to a less serious offense that has less jail time.

Social workers for DCFS and contract agencies remain ill equipped to handle any serious cases as they remain hamstrung by rules that prevent adequate triaging of the caseload. Often, then and now, they will spend more time on easy cases where parents and caretakers are cooperative, than they will on much more serious cases where the parents actively resist and evade the caseworkers.

You would think that at least the health care workers would be universally committed to the protection of children. Not always. They generally are pretty good at reporting suspected cases of abuse, at least physical abuse. But underage girls who are pregnant sometimes are not reported as victims of abuse, despite the prima facia evidence that the child was sexually abused. Children legally cannot give consent.

In some cases, health workers help arrange, or provide, abortions without notifying the police, DCFS or any other official.

This is also sometimes true when there is evidence boys have been sexually abused, and the boys refuse to cooperate.

No report.

When a case overcomes all the hurdles, and the prosecutor secures a conviction, there is no guarantee justice will be served. Too often, judges minimize the sentencing.

Recently, a teacher in Michigan engaged in sexual intercourse repeatedly over several months with her 13-year-old student. She was convicted of multiple counts of first-degree and third-degree criminal sexual conduct, for which she could have received life imprisonment. She was sentenced to 3 to 20 years. Period. She probably will be out much earlier. She’s not the only one. It’s the same as it was 50 years ago.

In the 70’s, one of our first cases involved a man who was sexually abusing a girl for three years, starting when she was 6. We got him cold on child pornography charges and he gave a full confession. He was sentenced to five years.

Pathetic.

Those immersed in the system know all this is true, but for one reason or another are not inclined to do anything about it. Those outside the system are largely oblivious, and very often want to remain ignorant.

This leaves our next generation condemned to evade the predators as best they can largely on their own. The consequences? More and more children will become victims of child sexual abuse. In thirty years maybe there will be 90 million adult survivors. By then, twenty five percent of us?

Unless we step up and start doing something much more effective, the numbers are going to keep growing.

(Next time, some things that are working and what you can do.)

Several decades ago, a very prominent liberal in Illinois once told me that “there are facts and there are principles. I believe in principles. If the facts contradict the principles, then the facts must be ignored.” This seems to be the thinking of large swaths of our current population. Forget the facts. All that is important is what we believe.

For the left, gender ideology seems to be one of those beliefs that exists far beyond the facts. The basic principle is that everyone has a sex and a gender. Biology determines your sex. Gender identity is determined by something inside, something known only to the person.

Today, there are more than 200 colleges in the U.S. that promote this gender ideology by offering degrees in gender studies as a major or a minor, despite there being no evidence that such a thing as gender even exists. The entire structure of gender ideology is based on a theory spawned by the deranged mind of John Money, whose research has been discredited by his own disastrous experiments. His seminal experiment was a catastrophic failure. And that failure, that fact, has been ignored . . . because it must be since the failure contradicts the principle.

The idea of gender has become so entrenched in our culture it’s difficult to see a path to escape from it. Yet it was created out of thin air and has metastasized throughout all our institutions within the last half century. Even major Christian denominations have become corrupted by gender ideology.

We have become so desensitized to gender, it seems that most of us have become resigned to it and have lost any sense of the danger the ideology poses. Take the transgender issue.

Transgender clinics for children have sprung up, seemingly overnight, throughout the country. After all, children know best who and what they are. Performances by drag queens at libraries, schools, restaurants and other public venues have become commonplace. All in good fun.

The dark side of the issue is being ignored by most. Little attention is paid to the mental illnesses that underlie the transgender phenomenon, or to the genuine danger that many transgenders pose toward others because of their mental illnesses, their narcissism, their twisted thinking.

This dark side cannot be ignored for long.

Recently Kelsey Boren, 31, a former teacher’s aide in Oregon, was convicted of 11 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse. Boren is a man who claims he’s a woman. And he is a drag queen, whose stage name is Alwaiz Craving. What he’s always craving seems evident by what he was convicted for, and by the fact that he was mentoring an 11 year old boy to become a drag queen. Boren had arranged for the boy to perform at a local pub named after Satan. As far as I can tell the child’s parents have not been prosecuted. Shockingly, Boren received less than one year in county jail for his conviction on 11 felony charges.

If this case doesn’t reveal the dark side of transgenderism clearly enough for you, several years ago I investigated the case of a four-year-old boy living in New York who had suffered abuse and torture at the hands of a transgender woman (a man) so severe that the child died.

Because of my past profession, I am accustomed to seeing the worst humanity has to offer, including countless cases of severe abuse that have led to the death of a child.  Four decades ago, I investigated more than 200 such cases during the course of my first investigation into the child welfare system.  But I’ve never seen one quite like the torture murder of Myls Dobson.

Myls’ killer was the new “girlfriend” of the child’s father. Born Christopher King, “she” was known as Janaie Jones and reportedly used the stage name of Kryzie King.  “She” had a $3,200 per month apartment at the Ritz Plaza in Midtown Manhattan and was a “transgender performer.”

Jones/King supposedly had a juvenile record but nothing as an adult. During an interview by the police, Jones/King admitted to starving the boy for more than two weeks, beating him with the buckle end of a belt all over his body, burning him with cigarettes and making him stand outside in his underwear for more than an hour when the temperature was 9 degrees.  “She” eventually called paramedics when the boy became unresponsive and they found him unconscious in a bathtub with extensive burns and bruises all over his body, including his genitals.

This is evil in its most sadistic manifestation.  You don’t get there overnight.  You don’t go from crime free to this kind of behavior unless you’ve already traveled many miles down the path of depravity. Additionally, Jones/King is a man.  He is not a she, no matter how much the gender cult wants it to be so.  This is a sick, twisted, evil man.

He is also transgendered.  That does not mean that all transgendered men are sick, twisted murderers. But this guy is among the worst.

The American Psychological Association says:

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female or something else; gender expression refers to the way a person communicates gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice or body characteristics.

Until recently, transgendered people were considered to have a mental disorder, specifically “gender identity disorder.”  But with the publication of the DSM-5, the term has been changed to “gender dysphoria” to de-emphasize that it is a “disorder.”

From the descriptions I’ve read about the injuries Myls suffered, I have to conclude that this is a case of child sexual sadism.  Not having access to all the investigation reports, I can’t be certain. But it sure looks like it. In any event, what Jones/King did to the boy proves that he was, indeed, disordered, to say the least.

I won’t go into all the other chaos of this little boy’s life, you can read a few of the articles here, here, here, and here.   The whole story of his short time on this earth is sad beyond comprehension and should be viewed as an indictment of the pathetic paper shuffling, buck passing system we’ve set up to make it seem we care about protecting children.

If we are ever going to get a clear picture of what’s going wrong (and right, for that matter), let’s first stop with all the woke lingo and start reporting the facts.  Maybe then, when we can see how “disordered” our world is becoming, we might be able to do something about it.

The torture murder of Myls Dobson by a transgendered child sexual sadist is outrageous.  But it is also outrageous to downplay the contribution played by the murderer’s lifestyle and HIS self-styled sexual orientation.

Christopher King and Kelsey Boren are not representative of the transgender community as a whole. But there are many like them within that community and there are many more who pose a less aggressive threat. More importantly, these cases are cautionary tales. They are a reminder that transgenderism involves a deranged view of reality that presents an imminent danger to children. That fact cannot be ignored if you care about protecting children.

Sexual Abuse of Children in Public Schools

In an excellent essay by journalist, Alex Newman published on January 5, 2022, entitled, Illinois Public Schools Battle Plague of Violence, Sexual Abuse, the author points out the deplorable scandal of children being physically and sexually abused in Illinois’ public schools. Another similar article ran on January 14, 2022.

The sexual abuse of children has been happening in Chicago’s public schools for years. Consider the Chicago Public School scandal that was exposed by the Chicago Tribune and others in August 2018. There were thousands of reports of sexual harassment (including many sexual assaults against children by school staff), in just one school year, in one city! Not only were there thousands of reports made to the Department of Child & Family Services (DCFS) of students suffering sexual harassment and abuse from other students and school faculty, during school hours, on public school property, but it was revealed DCFS didn’t even follow up on most of the reports (claiming they were understaffed and underfunded).

That certainly does not fit the narrative the media wants parents to believe: That public schools are safe havens against all child abuse. In fact, liberals often suggest that homeschooled students are at serious risk for abuse because they have no public school officials to watch over them and keep them safe.

They use this argument despite conclusive research that demonstrates that (1) there is absolutely no connection between the degree of state regulation of homeschooling and abuse of children, AND (2) the fact that students who are homeschooled are actually 257% LESS likely to be sexually abused than students who are in public schools! It truly baffles the mind that people want more regulation of homeschooling when it neither improves academic performance nor provides any additional protection for students.

According to the Chicago Tribune:

“The report describes how understaffed and underfunded CPS investigators struggled to process reports of potential sexual harassment, notifications sent to the Department of Children and Family Services, employee misconduct allegations and altercations between students and staff – thousands of reports during the 2016-17 school year alone.”

If we are to suppose this is the true state of DCFS, it would be the height of lunacy to suggest, as some liberal lawmakers have, that there should be mandatory home visits for all children who are not in a brick-and-mortar school to ensure they are not being abused. And suppose the state happened to find a situation here or there where some sort of abuse was occurring; what remedy would they seek? Sending them to a brick and mortar public school where abuse rates are the highest of all! These witch hunts against parents simply seek to deflect attention away from the greatest source of child sexual abuse, the public schools themselves, and divert resources from investigating the public schools where the majority of the physical and sexual abuse of these children is taking place.

When lawmakers and members of the media make these arguments, they reveal their bias: That parents cannot be trusted and government employees can. There are absolutely zero studies that support such a statist notion. To be clear, we are against all forms of child abuse and condemn it whenever and wherever it occurs. Sadly, abuse of children happens in every single sector of society, without exception. If anyone, including a parent, is truly abusing a child they should be prosecuted by the perfectly adequate child abuse laws that already exist in every state in America. No one should ever cover for abuse or seek to conceal it but should instead expose it. The problem is the exploitation of children is taking place every day (at a higher rate than almost any other sector in society) on government school campuses and it is being hidden by these very institutions who claim to care about and protect children the most. A November 19, 2019 article in Chalkbeat Chicago announced:

“Twelve employees and a volunteer at a school in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood had inappropriate relationships with students — including sexual abuse — or helped cover up that misconduct in a years-long ‘stunning’ and ‘colossal failure,’ Chicago Public Schools’ CEO announced Friday.”

That doesn’t even include the sexual perversion they are teaching children in the classroom through sex ed programs and even pipe virtually into homes through distance learning programs.

Many Public-School Teachers Send their Own Children to Private Schools

Here’s the dirty little secret liberals don’t want you to know. Those who shout the loudest for public schools often secretly avoid them. Consider that Barak Obama, when he lived in Chicago, sent his daughters to the elite University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Likewise, Rahm Emmanuel also enrolled his son and two daughters in the U of C Lab Schools. Jesse Jackson (a supposed advocate of Chicago Public Schools) sent his sons, Jesse and Jonathan, out of the city of Chicago (out of the state actually!) to a prestigious boarding school called LeMans Academy in LaPorte, IN during their middle school years. And another boys’ boarding school in Washington, DC for high school.

Chicago’s first lesbian mayor, Lori Lightfoot, while pushing for Chicago residents to send their children to physical schools in the city, personally sends her adopted daughter, Vivian to Frances Xavier Warde Catholic Cathedral School.

This is true for many politicians. According to a survey by the Heritage Foundation:

“40 percent of those in the U.S. House of Representatives who have school-aged children, and 49 percent of those in the Senate who have school-aged children, send or have sent at least one of their children to private school.”

Only 11% of American students have traditionally attended private schools (and only 5% of black students). But one study revealed whopping 46% of all public school teachers in Chicago have sent their own children to private schools, and refused to send them to the very schools where they themselves teach! Why is this? They know better. They work there every day and unlike the naïve parents who close their eyes and choose to ignore the facts, hoping it will all work out okay, these teachers know what actually happens each day in the school. There is no way they want their own children exposed to that kind risk.

Now don’t get me wrong, I applaud them for making a better choice for their own children. However, I can’t applaud the hypocrisy of those who keep telling the average citizens to keep their children in the government schools. Honestly, would you eat at a restaurant where the employees refuse to eat? It’s time for anyone who cares about their children to perform a mass exodus and get their children out of these cesspools.