Reply #174: Child rape kills a spirit, Murder kills a physical being. Both are equally horrendous.

[AnArmyVeteran]

Child rape kills a spirit, Murder kills a physical being. Both are equally horrendous. Both should receive the same punishment.

Child abuse or child rape is the equivalent to murder. The victim has their spirit and their lives destroyed. They become dead inside. They are terrified to reach out, or they have no one to reach out to. Child abuse or child rape forever harms a person. People who mindlessly say to just shake it off and go on with your lives are clueless, heartless and have no compassion for their fellow man. Until they experience the destruction of their spirit by being raped as a child they will never know the extreme pain, shame, depression and anger a victim experiences. And they will never know or care about the high level of suicides caused by physical, mental, emotional or sexual assaults against children. But when a victim commits suicide it is they who are often blamed, when the true murderer was the person who forced them to do the worst act imaginable against another person, the sexual abuse of a child.

This topic shouldn't even be up for debate. There is already enough concrete information to support repressed memories and the devastating emotional consequences of being sexually victimized. And the perpetrators of acts against the most vulnerable should be accountable for their crimes, just as a murderer is accountable for their crimes. One murders the soul of another person. The other murders his physical being. Both are as horrendous as the other and no statutes of limitations should exist for either crime. Perpetrators need to be brought to justice and severely punished for the destruction of another human being, especially since their crime was against the most vulnerable in society...