Have people always been this dammed bad, or is it that we are just hearing about everything on a larger scale these days?
I believe things in the world haven’t changed all that much, it just seems so because we have access to ways of hearing about it more.
Remember that BTK nutcase serial killer that was finally caught - he started it all by killing a family and hanging the kids in the basement.
It has always occurred. In bygone days, the papers would not have reported it in such detail, and of course there was no TV and nobody like Greta or Geraldo who made their living from other peoples' misery.
There would be a story a week after the event that a "fiend" had "done away with" a child in some far-off city, and perhaps if it were a particularly heinous rape they might use the word "ravished." And nothing more.
-ccm
Why haven’t we seen this on the cable news stations, they’re usually all over something like this??
I’ve wondered about that and I don’t know. I know there was pedophilia going around because I was almost a victim and you heard things but you never knew if they were true or not. In our small town they kept things like that quiet. We didn’t have 24/7/365 news and so unless it was fairly local or on the national news, you didn’t hear it.
I also think they got away with it a lot more back when.
Once a transient raped and left for dead, a 12 yr old and I remember the Dr. who had to treat the transient saying how hard it was not to grab the gun from the cop and blow his head off.