Insomniac	Re: To Simon, et. al.
	I just finished watching the video on Silent Lambs website. Earlier this evening I watched Mystic River, a movie which deals, in part, with the kidnap and rape of a young boy, and the long term effects it had on him. Probably both of these together was not a good idea; I'm feeling very emotional right now. What the hell was the problem with the mother of the two girls in the video from the BBC news show? She knew what was happening, yet she did nothing to stop it, other than talk to the damned elders. When they told her to pray and read her bible more, she did. Were her fingers broken, so she couldn't call the police? If someone were to beat and rape my children (if I had any), I would tear them apart with my bare hands to protect my kids. And yet this woman stood by until the physical signs of abuse were so obvious that the authorities were going to take her kids away from her; only then did she walk away from the man she'd allowed to hurt her daughters for so long. Sorry, I can't see her as a victim, as much as she was portrayed as one. The victims were the kids who were betrayed by their church and by their parents.
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