On April 14th Leonel Guzman-Jacobo, 20 was charged with child rape. According to the article posted on www.seattlepi.com, he was having a sexual relationship, for a full year, with a girl that was 13 years of age. She got pregnant, had the baby alone and suffocated the newborn, according to the article.
How many moral breeches can you find in that scenario? Yes, she was underage, yes, she was sexually active, yes, it was premarital, yes he was too old, yes, she murdered her child, and as the case unfolds I am certain more breeches will unfold.
Here you have an impressionable, young female child who was taken advantage of by an older more experienced male. I say taken advantage of because her base of knowledge and life experience pales in comparison to his base of knowledge and life experience. Child psychologist quite often point out how unstable teenagers are when it comes to their psychological development, not to mention their hormonal changes. Teenage girls in particular are exceptionally vulnerable at this stage in growth. They are exceedingly insecure and fascinated with their own physical development to the point of being obsessive and develop distorted self-images. Since this has been noted to be true, how is it that our young girls are still in the path of being taken advantage of (abused) so often these days by older men? What is it that they are not being taught that they are not being kept them safe from older men praying on them?
At that stage in their lives they need to know that someone cares for them and that they have value beyond the value defined by their family. We must reinforce to our girls how they are so much more than their developing bodies and teach them how to detect when someone does not have the proper appreciation for them. The 20-year-old, predatory, (probably unemployed) male is right there to tell a vulnerable teenage girl the things she wants to hear. As Mothers, fathers, parents, caretakers we are not there often enough. Not only is this how older men step into the lives of our daughters, but it is how gangs step into the lives of our young sons. No one, or worse still-the wrong one, is there to tell them the things they want and need to hear.
A female is the second self of God, young or old, she is the second self of God. Until we begin to treat women and girls with the reverence that they are worthy of, child rape is going to continue to be commonplace in the news, and society is going to pay for this abuse. We already are.
How many moral breeches can you find in that scenario? Yes, she was underage, yes, she was sexually active, yes, it was premarital, yes he was too old, yes, she murdered her child, and as the case unfolds I am certain more breeches will unfold.
Here you have an impressionable, young female child who was taken advantage of by an older more experienced male. I say taken advantage of because her base of knowledge and life experience pales in comparison to his base of knowledge and life experience. Child psychologist quite often point out how unstable teenagers are when it comes to their psychological development, not to mention their hormonal changes. Teenage girls in particular are exceptionally vulnerable at this stage in growth. They are exceedingly insecure and fascinated with their own physical development to the point of being obsessive and develop distorted self-images. Since this has been noted to be true, how is it that our young girls are still in the path of being taken advantage of (abused) so often these days by older men? What is it that they are not being taught that they are not being kept them safe from older men praying on them?
At that stage in their lives they need to know that someone cares for them and that they have value beyond the value defined by their family. We must reinforce to our girls how they are so much more than their developing bodies and teach them how to detect when someone does not have the proper appreciation for them. The 20-year-old, predatory, (probably unemployed) male is right there to tell a vulnerable teenage girl the things she wants to hear. As Mothers, fathers, parents, caretakers we are not there often enough. Not only is this how older men step into the lives of our daughters, but it is how gangs step into the lives of our young sons. No one, or worse still-the wrong one, is there to tell them the things they want and need to hear.
A female is the second self of God, young or old, she is the second self of God. Until we begin to treat women and girls with the reverence that they are worthy of, child rape is going to continue to be commonplace in the news, and society is going to pay for this abuse. We already are.
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