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[quote=Anonymous]Ever heard of Steven Stayner? He was 7 years old when Kenneth Parnell kidnapped him, and 14 when he escaped and rescued a 5 year old boy that Parnell had kidnapped about ten days before. 7 years of rape and abuse. Kenneth Parnell was sentenced in 1981… to 7 years and PAROLED after 5 years. In 2004, Parnell was arrested for attempting to solicit another kidnapping of a young boy. Upon conviction he was sentenced to 25 to life.

The system, which still sucks today, was absolutely horrible for child victims. Michael Jackson had limitless funds to mount a defense when he finally faced trial twelve years after the first allegations became public. And he was acquitted in 2005. We’d reached a point of holding a poor, scummy man known to be a violent predator accountable, but Michael Jackson had so many advantages, his fame, his money, his image, growing up in front of America. People didn’t want to believe it. They wanted victims to shut up, and they wanted to keep listening to his music. The internet was a different place. Less mobilizing, more I Can Haz Cheezeburger.

20 years later, we are willing to hold some people more accountable, but we let plenty go by too.

And for the political crowd, it’s the GOP paradise of Idaho that won’t let a minor get a rape kit without parental consent. And guess who’s most likely to rape those children- a parent or someone in the household the parent protects. Michael Jackson was not protected by some nefarious leftist cabal because he was black. That’s your weird cult programming. There are pedophiles on “both sides,” but only one side is trying to legally protect them.

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