Superdude
05-10-2001, 05:00 PM
(From something I read in News of the Weird)
"In March, Sussex County (N.J.) officials billed Chrissy McMickle, 18, and her brother Michael, 21, for part of their father's mental hospitalization costs, as required by state law. However, the only reason the father is hospitalized is because another state law requires him to be committed upon completion of his sentence as a sex offender, and the only victims of those sexual offenses were Chrissy and Michael..."
Goddam, people. I know that the law is the law, but let's try to have a little fucking perspective here, okay? Essentially, Chrissy and Michael are having to dish out money for their father's sexual abuse. C'mon! This is bullshit. Haven't these people been traumatized enough (I speak from experience...I am a victim of sexual abuse myself) without having to pay expenses brought on because of it? This is why this country's going fucking downhill. No one with any iota of intelligence in some sort of a judicial or prominent position friggin' THINKS anymore. Seems to me that sometimes the law should be a little sympathetic to the plights that people have to go through. Fucking charging these people for the pain they were exposed to is completely asinine.
"In March, Sussex County (N.J.) officials billed Chrissy McMickle, 18, and her brother Michael, 21, for part of their father's mental hospitalization costs, as required by state law. However, the only reason the father is hospitalized is because another state law requires him to be committed upon completion of his sentence as a sex offender, and the only victims of those sexual offenses were Chrissy and Michael..."
Goddam, people. I know that the law is the law, but let's try to have a little fucking perspective here, okay? Essentially, Chrissy and Michael are having to dish out money for their father's sexual abuse. C'mon! This is bullshit. Haven't these people been traumatized enough (I speak from experience...I am a victim of sexual abuse myself) without having to pay expenses brought on because of it? This is why this country's going fucking downhill. No one with any iota of intelligence in some sort of a judicial or prominent position friggin' THINKS anymore. Seems to me that sometimes the law should be a little sympathetic to the plights that people have to go through. Fucking charging these people for the pain they were exposed to is completely asinine.