Judi Moseley's Blog
In a previous life, not too distant from the one I'm leading now, I was an advocate for sexual assault victims. I've spent plenty of time in courtrooms listening to sex offenders explain why they should be excused from aberrant behavior, and I've seen more than I ever wanted to of the effects their behavior has on the victims, their families, and the communities they live in.
I found it grotesquely amusing last week when I flipped from one channel which was playing a clip from a sex offender "sting" operation ("I didn't come here to have sex with a 14 year old girl. Really. I was just going to talk to her. The beer was just for me, man. I wasn't going to give her any.") to another channel which was replaying the tape of Foley's spokesperson explaining that the Congressman's behavior was due to alcohol abuse and his own victimization as a child.
I found Foley's excuses to be just as fake, just as rehearsed, and just as lame as the Dateline offender's. Think about it--if you were a congressman who'd been hauled to the leadership's offices a half-dozen times to be told to knock off the contact with young boys--wouldn't you have spent a little time in your head trying to figure out what you'd say if your behavior ever came to the attention of the press and the public??
Just as he has no excuse for his behavior, there is also no excuse for the lack of action by those who knew about his behavior and failed to do anything to truly stop it.
I found it grotesquely amusing last week when I flipped from one channel which was playing a clip from a sex offender "sting" operation ("I didn't come here to have sex with a 14 year old girl. Really. I was just going to talk to her. The beer was just for me, man. I wasn't going to give her any.") to another channel which was replaying the tape of Foley's spokesperson explaining that the Congressman's behavior was due to alcohol abuse and his own victimization as a child.
I found Foley's excuses to be just as fake, just as rehearsed, and just as lame as the Dateline offender's. Think about it--if you were a congressman who'd been hauled to the leadership's offices a half-dozen times to be told to knock off the contact with young boys--wouldn't you have spent a little time in your head trying to figure out what you'd say if your behavior ever came to the attention of the press and the public??
Just as he has no excuse for his behavior, there is also no excuse for the lack of action by those who knew about his behavior and failed to do anything to truly stop it.
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