Allison Wean is being sent to prison.

I'm posting this here for reference.  People will say that women don't get punished for the same sex crimes that men do, or women receive probation only, or that women receive some automatic leniency.  Actually the reverse is true. Officer Timothy Barber repeatedly raped a minor while on duty and pled down to probation only, unlike Allison Wean.

I remember the case of some police officer, I want to say he was in Louisiana.  He appeared to have done some rather overt sexual misconduct on traffic stops and been caught -- good.  But the sentencing he received seemed highly disproportionate.  For example Daniel Holtzclaw got something like 13-15 years per charge, and the African-American officer in Lousiana had gotten something like 50 years per charge.

That's how this case appears to me.  Like the Louisiana officer, I'm not arguing that Wean is any less despicable.  She groomed and abused this child.  She's going to prison, that's good.   I'm pointing out that the justice system went, "Bing, bang, boom, bye, lady, you're a child molester."  And that this is contrary to the many narratives that will appear in the YouTube comments below the video.

Meanwhile, all my life, male molesters have been running amok without consequences, raping and even murdering children and adult women multiple times under the refrain "boys will be boys." 

I've never been an advocate for "girls will be girls."  I think the only people calling for leniency for Ms. Wean were members of her family. 

I could not be prouder of the delegation that went all the way to France.  They marched right up to the devil and punched him in the nose.  God bless.

It's a hard line for me to walk a lot of the time, not wishing anyone dead.  But should I cry that Rivoire died?  I'm sorry he wasn't forced to face justice in Canada.

It's the same old infuriating line of reasoning:  the perpetrator 100% denies everything.  Everybody else believes the survivors.  But there's no proof.  So the rest of the world throws up its hands and cries "nothing we can do, alas."  Welcome to rape culture.

Shame on all the dirty bastards who hid him from the law.  Shame on the Catholic Church and all of the enablers from all institutions who do similar things.  The Mormons are no better, I don't believe any of them are.  Walmart certainly isn't.  I just don't have time to blog about that.  But really, the Catholic Church should be a tiny bit morally or ethically better than Walmart.

The linked video has some interesting interviews.  But it's titled "Inside the Indian Reservation Where People Go Missing."  Then it doesn't address anything about the how or why of people going missing.   Instead he takes an ill-informed stab at the history of boarding schools.  This guy means well.  He tried.

It's upsetting to see how the shittiness of America has fully pervaded Native America.  I knew that it had, because I've been all through the West for the last ten years.   But I don't have any personal experience with Natives who have access to casino money. It's depressing to see how clearly money doesn't fix it.  Even when people do have access to drug rehab facilities, they need more than that. 

America is doomed.  Even people who are literal members of a tribe, enrolled members of a family with an ancient name that they know, can't withstand end-stage capitalism without alcohol and crystal meth.  The village can no longer raise the child.

What really struck me was when he said his mom couldn't even talk about the boarding school.  She'd fall silent.  That's my experience, too.  People just choke up about it, they can't even go there.  Those schools were the most shameful torture camps for children.  My mind was completely blown when I read Luther Standing Bear's book, his shilling for that horrible place, his rationalizations of the horrors he described. 

I can understand why Standing Bear said what he did, in his own personal context  But as an Italian-American, and a Catholic, especially as a survivor, I can never feel anything but shame, grief, and remorse for any of that.  I'm so horrified.

It's important to point out, however, that the young man in the video got one important thing very wrong:  Catholics and Anglo-Saxon Protestants are two very different communities.  Never the twain shall meet.  Catholics did many bad things and also ran horrible boarding schools.  But the "Kill the Indian, save the man" situation of Captain Pratt, and the ethnic cleansing pogroms of America overall, were an Anglo-Saxon Protestant joint.  Andrew Jackson was a Protestant.  The Trail of Tears was a Protestant situation.  Custer was a Protestant.

Let's not get it twisted:  in our modern era, from the Mayflower forward, America's punishment fetish has been a Protestant thing.  Specifically hanging and lynching, lots of which was done against Native Americans (and my people, who called both the act and the people it was done to linciati) are strictly a Protestant jam.  Catholicism doesn't allow for capital punishment.  Abraham Lincoln had the option of pardoning a number of Natives who were to be hanged.  He pardoned most, but not all of them. 

The Catholic Church was responsible for destroying the Mayan codices, for the horrific child trafficking mass murderer Christopher Columbus, and for having the most questionable moral high ground, for sure.  But they're entirely distinct from the boss-man of America. Catholics have never been in charge in America.  Plenty of horrible murderers were Catholics.  But our rank-and-file don't stand in lynch mobs as a rule.

And I, as a second-generation American of Napolitan stock, need to draw that distinction.  Because my people aren't actually in the same ethnic community as Columbus, either.  His people don't so much recognize us and vice versa.  So this young man is making a bit of a whiteberg.

I'm not saying the Catholics are overall any less racist or imperialist, or better.  The pope's moral high ground is the janitor's bathroom at Deutschebank.  I'd just like there to be a clean line when laying blame.  Catholics go all around the world protecting their horrible priests, like the old Frenchman who was accused of assaulting Inuit children.  We're famous for it.  But they do then incorporate all of the Indonesian, and Inuit, and African, and other people who converted into one big coat of every color that is our (molested) Catholic family. 

Protestants still run America to this day, and do all the same things, and are invisible and oblivious to that fact, pointing at Catholics, because we're all white.  Catholics shouldn't be equally blamed for Protestant crimes, is what I'm saying.  "Kill the Indian to save the man" was by, for, and about Protestants.

I remember how horrible Catholic schools were for me as a white, Catholic child who spoke English in the 1970s.  And our nuns were racist, while believing they weren't, and teaching us not to be, as best they could.  Some of them tried their best, they really did.  They just weren't good at being nice to kids.  They were unhappy people in a dishonest religion.

Look how bold this girl is, grabbing the magazine out of a mugger's gun and tossing it!  JFC

And check out her classmates, not flinching an inch while she fights off a masked attacker with a gun. 

One of them ran away. The other one didn't even pull out his phone to call for help, or at a bare minimum gather evidence.  Not a damned thing from anyone.  So much heroism.

Incels have no idea why they can't get laid.

"Hey mister, I wanna know.  Are you hipster, or a hobo?"

Well, this great kid actually couldn't tell.  And he tried to be nice to a super rich guy.

Yeah, I know it's bullshit.  But I like to see things going well once in a while.  Nice to see a really good kid get rewarded.  Puts me in a better mood.

This is another really sad story with no happy ending in sight.  There's only one survivor left, his dad.  His mother lost her other son and then died before Jaylen's remains were found.

I'm short on time right now.  But my research into this matter suggests that Jaylen's skeletal remains were found by a maintenance man.

The residence appears to be a group home since 2011, before Jaylen went missing.  It's owned by some corporate entity and it's been continuously occupied by multiple transient people.

When they say "group home" I take it to mean either a sober living facility, an assisted living place for people with mental health issues, or a place for sex offenders and other people coming out of the criminal justice system.   The kind of place neighborhood people should have been aware of, local kids should have been warned about.

Jaylen went to a corner store on his bike and was never seen again.  My theory of the case is that some sex offender lured him into the building Gacy-style, with the promise of some work, and murdered him:  "I'll give you $20 to help me move this old radiator out of the attic."  Boys that age are always looking to earn a little pocket money.

This is a situation where the murderer got away with it this long because of end-stage capitalism.  I'm willing to bet it's someone who was already known to have problems that made them a danger to the community.  But they have to live somewhere.  So they get sheltered in group homes, where someone in theory keeps tabs on them.

And yet they were able to murder a 12-year-old and let his body decompose in the attic with nobody finding out for years. 

This happens because in end-stage capitalism, many people accept positions of responsibility without actually fulfilling the corresponding responsibilities.  They have important titles that pay them handsomely.  But they don't do anything to prevent someone like Jaylen from getting killed.  Because that's not the object of the game.

Rest in peace, Jaylen.

"No ma'am, I really wasn't."

"I'm not like that."

Every alleged sex offender immediately swears they're as innocent as Sunday morning, just saying.

So as an old survivor, I'm loving the age of omnipresent videos.  Because here we have an actual video, and yet the denial is STRONG.

I hate the phrase "believe women." I don't want people to believe me because I'm a woman.  I want them to give me baseline credibility because I'm a human being.  And because we can see videos like this, how the video evidence tracks to the words that reflexively come out of people's mouths, who the most motivated liar group is in real life -- perpetrators, not survivors.

This is a rabbit hole I don't have time to get into.  Because it's horrible, I have no doubt.  But fortunately:
1.  The baby is safe.
2. Elias Huizar will never work as a police officer again.

"I just don't know how much of a fight I want to get into. [sigh]" -- Columbus, Ohio Police Officer on why he doesn't arrest a raging ignoramus for disorderly conduct

This video tells you everything you need to know about America right now, why things are the way they are.  The story in the video above is tragic.  But also needless, stupid, and belligerent.  This is who we are. 

A woman is pulled over driving the car of a stranger -- who is slumped over dead of an overdose in the passenger seat.  The dead woman's husband is looking for her, because she has an appointment at a drug rehab place. 

The victim had allegedly taken the driver, who she met yesterday, to get her prescriptions, and allegedly she was fine.  But then she wasn't feeling well.  And instead of going to a hospital, her new friend kept driving around.

That's where the story doesn't get fleshed out.  Because the dead woman's daughter and son-in-law arrive.  And the son-in-law becomes such a buffoon, such a loud, angry little man, right off the top, that a lot of people would definitely have been in handcuffs.  The police have to protect the driver from the son-in-law so they can attempt to continue taking her statement.

He doesn't give his wife or her father any space to deal with their wife/mom lying dead in her car with some weirdo driving around like it's Weekend at Bernie's, crack zombie edition.  He makes it all about himself to such an extent that the only reason he doesn't get arrested is that the cops simply don't want the aggravation of fighting him and doing all the paperwork. 

Because it's such a strange investigation.  They really do need to talk to this woman, find out exactly where they went, what happened, when, all that.  When exactly did she die?  Where was she off to in such a big hurry with a woman slumped dead next to her?  What did she need the car for so badly?  What charges will she face exactly?

What does this man want the police to do, drag the woman through the streets by her feet?  They're asking her questions to get her statement on the record.  STFU and let the grownups work, Kevin.  This is really important right now. 

What a sickening story all around.  This is what we've come down to as a country.  I feel terrible for the young woman who just lost her mother and is also married to that guy.