Blogpost # M. 458 FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS

Our research shockingly indicates that, globally, one in eight girls experiences sexual abuse before the age of 18. This translates, arithmetically, to more than 370,000,000 girls and women who have experienced rape or other sexual abuse before reaching the age of eighteen. The reader, presumably, is well acquainted with the egregious “box store” enterprise of Jeffrey Epstein, which was known to be patronized by a notable clientele, including President Donald J. Trump.

What notably disturbs and entirely baffles us is the understanding that many of these errant clients were, themselves, fathers of female children. The felonious commission of these acts is, inarguably, morally exacerbated by the crass failure of understanding that the traumatized victim of his sexual abuse herself is, thematically, some other father’s daughter. It is reasonable to presume that no objective understanding or empathy is relevant to the lustfully errant behavior. It is our assumption that if he were the father of the abused daughter, he would find it impossible to avoid just retribution (hopefully, legal)against the monstrous offender.

While such a sophomoric level of societal insight is demonstrably lacking in all manner of criminal perpetrators, in the context of this anti-societal category, it is considerably more egregious in the matter of childhood sex abuse. In such cases, the objective, humanistic insight that morally bifurcates mankind from the feral beast is cast aside in favor of the perpetrator’s monofocused lust or any empirical consideration of empathic awareness.

This atavistic category of anti-societal offenders would, appropriately and relevantly, seem to require intensive therapy in addition to suitable penal retribution.

-p.

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