National- Victims blast Supreme Court porn ruling

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com )

In light of today’s U.S. Supreme Court child porn ruling, we urge lawmakers to redouble their efforts to deter future child sex crimes and help those who suffer because of these heinous crimes.

[The New York Times]

Most child sex offenders are never caught, charged or convicted, so hundreds of thousands of boys and girls keep getting severely hurt.

So we challenge those who celebrate today’s decision to come up with better ideas. For kids, the status quo stinks. So if you think this award isn’t appropriate, what will you do instead to stop this horror and expose the perpetrators?

It’s fine to say ‘this is unreasonable.’ So too, however, is the sexual exploitation of tens or hundreds of thousands of kids. It’s not enough, then, for adults to say ‘this amount of money is excessive.” It’s incumbent on critics to come up with a better plan.

To those who back this ruling, how much would someone have to pay you to sexually violate your child? What price should be put in this devastation?

We hope lawmakers will remedy this injustice as quickly as possible.

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