Not a post about Chick Fil A!

   There is currently an INSANE amount of press about the Chick Fil A debacle.  May I say that I cannot stand with those who rallied around Cathy by buying chicken.  I understand that was symbolic, but I am not sure many who stood in line waiting for their orders understood the full depth of the debate.  Anyway, that's my little take on that, and I'm not going to waste any more time on the subject.
   What I am writing about is the following heinous story I came across while reading some wholly separate political article:

Cops: Couple produced child porn with 4-year-old

Submitted by Ashley Porter

NORTH FORT MYERS, Florida -- It started out with a cell phone found in a shopping cart, and ended with a couple arrested on charges that they engaged in sexual acts with a 4-year-old girl.The phone was found in a Cape Coral Walmart earlier this month and turned over to law enforcement. An FBI Innocent Images Task Force& agent found child pornography images on the cell phone.

A detective with the Lee County Sheriff's Office Sexual Predator Unit recognized the phone number as belonging to a man who is listed as a sexual offender.
That man, 33-year-old Alan Johnson, had been convicted on two federal child pornography charges in 2003, and sentenced to 70 months in prison. Johnson had pleaded guilty and didn't appeal his sentence.
A search warrant executed this week at the house Johnson shares with 37-year-old Jennifer Sparks helped detectives find evidence of the two producing child pornography on a cell phone camera, including images and videos of the two engaging in sex acts with a 4-year-old, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office.
Upon contacting the Polk County Sheriff's Office, detectives were able to find the little girl and turn custody of her over to the Florida Department of Children and Families.
According to their Facebook pages, Johnson and Sparks run a website together that sells sex toys.

   I appreciate the reporting on this story, which points out that one of these two deviants was in fact convicted nine years ago!  Can I ask a question?  Why was this pervert allowed to walk the streets ever again?  Are we not at a point in our society where we understand that sickos like this don't stop being sickos?  Because he was allowed out of prison, he was allowed to destroy another life.  And due to God's providence that this sicko also happened to be a moron and left his phone behind in a shopping cart, the child seen in the video was rescued.  I don't know whose child this is, and let me express my deepest most heartfelt intention to pray for her and her ability to recover from the damage that has been done to her so early in her life.  Sexuality is a God-given beautiful part of being human, and the abuser forever taints and thus steals that part of his or her victim.   
   I don't know what to do with all this anger and hurt I feel about this.  Because my mother was a victim of childhood sexual abuse, I know how deep the scars go; and I still cry thinking about the little girl that was my mother having no choice but to accept the horrors being perpetrated against her.
   I want to know what to do, what to do!  Prompt legislatures to make tougher and tougher sentences for these criminals who are so clearly incapable of controlling themselves?  Get involved in the community and work with organizations like CASA to help as much as I can one-on-one?  Clearly, something has to give.
   Doing a little research (just now) I discovered that April 2013 will mark the 30th anniversary of the first National Child Abuse Prevention month.  I've fairly well decided to make it my mission to make this a big deal in my community, as big a deal as I can.  What I've got to do is figure out the stats for the county in which I live, which means I am going to have to contact local officials and experts in the field.  I can't figure out what needs doing until I figure out what is already being done.  I don't know if my efforts will amount to a hill of beans, but I feel this is worthwhile.  Of course, research is going to be extremely time-consuming; but, hey, at least all my time on the computer can actually be fruitful!