Recommended Podcast: Sex Trafficking Abolitionist

Sex Trafficking Abolitionist: Interview With Tim Ballard, by Pastor Kevin Boling
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 The following is an excerpt from the small book: Sometimes God Has A Kids Face, by Sister Mary Rose McGead

"The Word on the Street is Johns Prefer Chickens!"

 "Merry Christmas Mister. Hey, Mister, do you wanna party? Are you looking for a good time on Christmas Eve? It's $10 bucks for the Globe Hotel and $20 bucks for me Mister...I've got to stop crying. Nobody's gonna buy me if I'm crying. It's bad for the John's head. It ruins his fantasy when a kid he wants to buy has tears in her eyes.
“I feel like such a jerk, working the Cameo on Christmas Eve. People look at me real quick, and then look away – except the Johns. Bruce wants me to come to church on Christmas. He says God won't mind at all. In fact, He'd like to see me there, Bruce says.
“I'd be afraid. With these clothes on! Midnight mass would never be the same!   Besides, I'd never be able to sing Silent Night without Crying. Imagine me, in church, singing Silent Night. God would laugh. Before He got mad, He would laugh.
“I wish I could call my mother. It would be nice to know if she's OK. It being Christmas, and all. She'd want to know what I was doing and where I was, but she already knows. And it would spoil her Christmas to know I was alive. I wonder if she'd rather think that I was dead. Maybe I wouldn't hurt her so much then.
“She could go back to thinking how it used to be on Christmas. When I was little. Before I left. Before I ruined things. Before dad...I've got to stop crying. Blue fly will be really mad if he sees me crying. Bruce says I should come to Covenant House for Christmas. The place looks great, he says. Christmas trees and presents for the kids and a big turkey dinner.
“It's hard when it's somebody else's Christmas tree. You walk around all day thinking of the time when you had one all your own. When you had a family and you got presents, and you were with people who loved you and wanted to have you around.
“It's hard to get presents from somebody you hardly know. Who you never saw before yesterday. Who are just trying to make you feel good and happy. Sometimes it just makes it worse.
“It's Christmas, and everybody wants me to be happy. Except Blue Fly! He wants me to work the Cameo porn theater and pick up 10 Johns. Maybe they'll feel sorry for me and give me some big tips – before they go home to their own wives and kids and decorate their own Christmas trees!
“I wonder what kind of presents they're gonna give the kids at Covenant House this year. I wonder if they'd let me in again. Bruce said he would. My pimp, Blue Fly, sure won't like it. He really hassled me the last time I went to Covenant House. He beat me real bad. I don't want to go through that again!
“I sure don't want to keep doing this, either. Maybe Bruce is right and God won't get mad at me at Christmas!”

Recommended reading:

What to Do if You Suspect a Child is Being Sexually Abused

Malaysia Legislator: Banning Child Marriage Will Lead Girls to Seek Casual Sex [Alternative Headline: Banning Child Rape by Adults Will Lead Girls to Seek Casual Sex...with Boys!]
Spotlight: A Review

Multiple Coaches May Have Witnessed Jerry Sandusky Abuse

Unbelievable: Multiple Coaches May Have Witnessed Jerry Sandusky Abuse - thedailysheeple.com

Excerpt from this article:

"The public was shocked when allegations first surfaced that Jerry Sandusky had molested children. Not only was it sickening to hear the content of these stories, but they had a rather disturbing implication. How could this coach get away with these crimes for so long? The truth is, there’s simply no way a high-profile person like Sandusky could do that over and over again for decades without someone seeing it, and failing to do anything about it. It turns out that 'someone' may have been more than one person."

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Recommended reading:
 

Penn State Settlements Covered 1971 Sandusky Abuse Claim - bigstory.ap.org
Spotlight: A Review
What to Do If You Suspect a Child is Being Sexually Abused 

Recommended podcast:

Global Warming and Matthew Shepard: Extravagant Lies that Fool Billions, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

Note: While this whole podcast if fascinating and worth listening to, the second half deals with the Jerry Sandusky crimes.

Spotlight: A Review

I don't often recommend movies - in fact, I recommended people not watch them (See Dr. David P. Murray's great sermon: Should Christians Watch Movies?)

But Spotlight is a great movie that needs to be watched - both by Christians and non-Christians. For a great review of this movie, check out:

Spotlight Joins 'All the President's Men' in the Pantheon of Great Journalism Movies' 

Excerpt from this article:

"It’s not a stretch to suggest that “Spotlight” is the finest newspaper movie of its era, joining “Citizen Kane” and “All the President’s Men” in the pantheon of classics of the genre."
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The message of "Spotlight" is twofold:

1.  It is never OK to abuse a child (sexually or otherwise)
2.  It is never OK to cover up abuse of a child

Our Lord Jesus says:

"It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones." - Luke 17:1,2

Recommended reading:

No Spotlight on Hollywood Child Rape
Billy Graham: 'God Hasn't Changed...I Warn You That His Wrath' Will 'Explode' on the Sexually 'Immoral' - cnsnews.com

What To  Do if You Suspect a Child is Being Physically or Sexually Abused?