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Published January 13, 2015
I can't stop thinking about the case of Samatha Runnion.
Here's a five-year-old girl who did everything her mom told her to do: She stayed close to home, played with a companion, and fought fiercely when a man tried to abduct her. But he succeeded and then spent hours beating her, molesting her, killing her and posing her body — gruesomely and exploitatively — along a public roadside.
I can't remember the last time a story made me this sick ... or angry. This is a story about evil as grotesque and unimaginable as Usama bin Laden's — and as far as I'm concerned, no torture is bad enough for the man responsible.
We all have a duty to teach kids to protect themselves — to keep watch ourselves for such sickos. But there's one more point: Hollywood — and to a certain extent official Washington — now treats sex as a sacred thing, and love merely as a nice option.
We're breeding a culture that regards people, especially females, as objects — and creates a market for horrifying violence. Say what you will, that's also part of the problem.
We're honest these days about predators. Shouldn't we wise up about their glamorous role models, too?
https://www.foxnews.com/story/parting-thoughts-on-samatha-runnion