I welcome you to my blog and another wonderful edition of the Hive Learners' featured post. Over the years I have seen and I have heard a lot about people who enjoy nothing but crime against children, especially sex crimes. Trust me, when you hear the type of deep scar that experience leaves kids, even when they become adults, overcoming that trauma becomes a very big problem. One time on X (formerly Twitter), I saw a tweet asking those who were sexually abused as kids to share their stories. From there, I came to realize that time does not heal all wounds; rather, many people just learned to live with the pain and trauma.
All who were abused sexually as kids are left with a scar, one that never fades, one that every little thing reminds them of or takes their minds back to how the scar came about and why it is still there. As an individual you can move on from many things, but you can never move on from being abused as a child, whether the abuse was sexual or not. Abuse of children has a way of affecting the child whether the child likes it or not; abuse of children can impact the child's life either positively or negatively. Many adults who behave wrongly are actually that way because of the abuse they suffered as children, and then their minds have been made to believe it is the right way to behave.
Some sins can be forgiven and completely forgotten, but not when it comes to abuse of children. Even if the world forgets, the child at the receiving end will never forget such a thing; they live with it all their lives. Some even plan revenge, and I cannot blame them. Some become a monster, and then it pains me how in most cases it is another person that suffers from the monster that they have become. Abuse of children is not something to be taken lightly because sometimes the aftereffects do not happen immediately; they come later when the world must have forgotten, which is bad. It is more like having an enemy without knowing you have an enemy.
So should perpetrators of crimes against children be allowed near their children?
My opinion on this might differ from that of many, but I do not support that perpetuators of crime, especially against children, be allowed near any child, not even their own. A child is never safe around one who has committed any crime against kids before. I feel like if they have done it before, there is still a very high tendency they can do it again and again, which means when they want to do it again, they will be doing so with any child nearby, whether theirs or not. Perpetrators of crime against kids should be kept as far away as possible from children, providing a safer environment for children, one where even parents and neighbors around will not be forced to be on sentry.
In cases like this my mom will always say that a goat and a lion can never be friends or a goat and a tuber of yam can never be friends; one day the lion will eat the goat, and one day the goat will eat the yam. It is the same thing in this case; it might take time, but the possibility of it happening is very high.
