Doesn't it Disturb you?: ABUSE OF ANIMALS AND CHILDREN ON THE RISE

As our American neighbours celebrate 'Black Friday', the day after their Thanksgiving allocated for bargain shopping, the news of the alleged ABUSE and HORRIFIC conditions at The Toronto Humane Society(at River St.)shake our city and it's good name! However with the current level of VIOLENCE and abuse in our societies;is it really a surprise? The most vulnerable are our children and our canine/feline, companions. After that you can add Women to that ever increasing list of victims subjected to cruelty and abuse! Hard to accept this devestating TRUTH about our societies and that those that are supposed to SHIELD and PROTECT are often the AGRESSORS who are inflicting the abuse;backed by atrocious legislation that does not punish these demons! Inspector Kevin Strooband(of the OSPCA)investigating the claims said, "I'm reeling from what I just saw. It's like a house of horrors. You'd never expect to find that in here. This isn't just an error. This is unbelievable." The society's president Tim Trow, along with 4 other members of the shelter, were taken away in handcuffs at the end of Thursday's raid. Also charged are the general manager Gary McCracken, supervisor Andy Bechtel, manager Romeo Bernadino and chief veterenarian Steve Sheridan. Now I must interject with a reality check, the shelter is filled with abused and ill animals;the condition they come there in. However, having over the last 30 years been there on multiple occasions to adopt a dog myself, there is no question of the lumming 'air of pain' in the shelter! The CRIES and ODOURS of the shelter left me without a dry eye during my entire visit. I could not get the images out of my mind for weeks. I also felt that there was a dissproportionate amount of caregivers visa vis the animals;similar situation to our institutions that care for our sick and elderly. A University of Toronto bioethicist Kerry Bowman said it will be interesting to see how much of the legal case against the members hinges upon wether the animals were so ill that they should have been euthanized sooner. Bowman said, "These are ethical and philosophical questions, and it's very hard to force people and tell people how to think about that. I think it is definitely triggering an ethical debate." I recognize there are many people who either work or volunteer their time with the shelter who have hearts of gold, and my desire is not to paint a blanket judgement on everyone. Instead to bring attention to, what I would assume would be the small minority of abusers, and seek JUSTICE for the HELPLESS VICTIMS! As violence in our societies reach epedemic levels, the only means to rescue victims of abuse is for the VOICES OF THE JUST to keep getting louder and their action stronger! Personally, I have a difficult time with why there is not a greater public outcry for all victims of abuse but especially for the children! Why isn't Queens Park overcrowding with demonstrators who refuse to accept the unwillingness of our government and judicial systems to punish according to the severity of the crime;and in my eyes there is NO GREATER CRIME THAN THOSE PERPATRATED AGAINST CHILDREN! This photograph on the bottom left, and I know it's really difficult to look at, is that of a sexually abused boy. It's hard to wrap your brain around such an atrocity;what kind of evil does a man have to have in his heart to commit such an unspeakable crime? But it is a global reality for millions of children. Either born into it or abducted and forced into it, these are often unspeakable horrors that the child must endure! I cannot even fathom how these children survive!

This in my humble opinion, is absolutely the darkest side of man that any loving human being would be sickened by! And I still have a difficult time with it, yet I know that it is crucial to keep the dialogue continuously active. My heart goes out to all the police officers on the task force that deal exclusively with saving these innocent souls from their imprisonment! Just looking at the photographs is so disturbing, it's hard to conceive having to microscopicly sift through actual footage of these children and the sex acts they are forced to perform. Yet if the officers did not have the calling, and take this overwhelming burden upon themselves not one of these children would ever be rescued. From what I understand they all suffer deeply, and the images become embedded in their minds;making it impossible to shut them out! Honestly, I understand clearly why this is their reality. Then after going through the trauma(and it is a trauma for them)in order to capture these monsters and free the children, our broken judicial system gives these pedophiles barely a slap on the wrist and repeatedly releases them back into society to commit these atrocities again. Like that pedophile in Mississauga, who is being let back into the same neighbourhood for(I think)the third time. Mothers are so distressed and rightfully worried for their children, that they have all put up his picture on their fridges in order to protect their children from him. I mean this is insane, and I know myself having 4 children, I could never imagine when I was a young lady that I would in the future be having such conversations and having to teach them so early in their lives about such horrors;and having to be so very graphic and detailed in order to impart in them knowledge that would protect them from these monsters in our society. However better safe than sorry! Some parents feel uncomfortable to reveal such information but in this dangerous world it is absolutely CRUCIAL and VITAL to their safety and well being! Oh so very sad but so very true. The fact that children are abducted from their streets, their backyards and even their bedrooms and forced to become a sexual slave to one or thrust into the disgusting global sex trade, is todays reality! One organization that has championed this battle is The National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children, based in Alexandria, Virginia. They are solely responsible for bringing home many a child;but it can never be enough! The numbers are simply overwhelming, it makes you want to shut down society and have the collective effort of every citizen and every existing organization to save each and every one of them! Put Society to a COMPLETE STANDSTILL until these precious SOULS, our precious CHILDREN, are brought home to their loved ones or put in the care of those who will help them to begin to heal. I'm going to bring this post to a close, it has been quite agonizing to research the images and write this, and I have been at it for many hours;I wanted to do justice to the plight of the abused, whether child, woman, man or animal...we are all God's creations and deserve to be treated with dignity and humanely! Here's the link to that organization, in case you would like to help...http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PageServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=261