I guess I should be grateful he got any punishment at all, that they removed him from the environment.

Are any of the other care providers who didn't notice she was pregnant for nine months being charged with her neglect?  How did nobody notice she wasn't having periods? 

Sometimes it's hard for me to believe that the world is real. 

Just when you thought things couldn't be any more decrepit or depressing, this happens.

So apparently just because you are some crusty, dusty old Registered Sex Offender, that doesn't prevent you from being left to live on an Alzheimer's unit full of elderly women that you can grope at your leisure.  Even if you're on probation and they catch you red-handed, if you're 90 years old they just leave you to it.

A nurse reportedly found some RSO actively groping this 96-year-old dementia patient who was minding her own business in her own room.  What surprises me the most is that the staff member reported it, to be honest. 

This particular menace to society, when caught, had two comments:

1. I'm dumb, I messed up.
2. She didn't say no or tell me to stop.

So that should be pretty straightforward, right?  He's a known asshole, an RSO in the first place.  He's diagnosed with a mental disorder that makes him "a violent sexual predator."  He's on probation and can be sent directly to prison for this incident.  In my opinion that's what should happen.   Lord knows what would have happened if the nurse hadn't walked in.

But no, it's all a big shrug from the legal system, really no matter how infuriating it may be.  He was left right where he is.  His probation was not violated.  As of this writing he has not been charged with anything.

The home where he lives is required by law to have a treatment plan in place for someone with any mental disorder, including one that makes them dangerous to others.  They wouldn't say if they had one in place for this attacker of a 96-year-old uncommunicative woman.  Ask yourself if it's a coincidence that he picked a person who can't communicate to pull this on, and what are the odds that this is the only thing he's done?

I understand that RSOs are human beings, and they need to live somewhere.  AND, it's not fair to have them living among vulnerable populations without warning.  That's the whole point of registering them in the first place, isn't it?  They're not supposed to be able to grope elderly dementia patients just because they enjoy that hobby.  The rest of us aren't here for their entertainment. 

I'm not in favor of turning the rest of society loose on punishing them at will.  I don't want him tarred, feathered, and lynched.  But it can't continue to be the reverse, either, where they get to exploit and abuse us freely.

So they can make separate group homes for RSOs.  The inconvenience can fall to their side, not the rest of us.  Because I hate to say it, but this will not get prosecuted as it should.  There were two of them in this one nursing home.  Rapists get old too, you know?  It sucks.  It's infuriating for this lady.  And I don't believe she will get justice.

So, since we don't have nursing homes for sex offenders, and he can't keep his hands to himself, he can go back to prison for what he just did there.  What's that you say?  Joliet is no place for a 90-year-old man?  Fuck that grandma titty groper.  Choices have consequences.  He's not safe for the rest of us and he never will be.  If they can't come up with some home for elderly sex menaces, he can go live out his days with the younger ones.

In this horrifying case, a young woman and her disabled brother were rescued from living with their abusive, incestuous, murderous father in a small village in Poland.

The 20-year-old woman, Paulina GIerasik, is unfortunately also being charged with incest and murder, along with her 54-year-old father Piotr. 

However, unlike in America, public sentiment seems to be that Paulina is also a victim.  Somehow many Polish people are able to understand what Americans somehow can't:  that people don't necessarily have full agency with their parents just because they've turned 18.  And maybe not with others who have been grooming or abusing them from an early age, either.

EXCLUSIVE: Polish villagers insist 'incest house of horror' daughter is an innocent victim of her depraved father and should not face trial as new images emerge of cellar where three babies were killed
I would suggest that the more intense the abuse is, the more inappropriate or extreme the boundary violations are, and the earlier they happen, the less-likely that person is to be able to have any self-determination even when they reach adulthood. 

In other words, if he started raping her as a 6 or 7-year-old, or even at 12 or 13, there was really nothing for her to do or say about any of it, I don't think, but to go along.  Especially since he's said to have beaten up the disabled brother and thrown him out of the house when he wanted to be alone with Paulina.  It sounds like Piotr was completely out of control.

So I'm glad that public sympathy is with the poor girl who was made to act as her mother -- who also died under mysterious circumstances.  Thank God Piotr's reign of terror is over with now.  Because the prosecution, for whatever reason, imagines that Paulina somehow had agency to consent. 

There's a bizarre picture of her with something that hopefully isn't baby shit smeared all over her face and stuck in her nostrils, for reasons I can't imagine.  There's another picture when he offered her on the internet for sex when she was 15.  He shaved her head at one point so other men wouldn't want her.  He's been raising her since she was 5.  He clearly just does whatever he wants to her at any given time.  It wobbles my mind to try and understand what the police are looking at when they want to blame her for any of this.    What was she meant to do, physically fight him?  And run where?

From The Daily Mail:

"Another local told Fakt newspaper: 'They lived like a couple. She called him Piotr, by his first name. They walked around hand in hand.

'A few months ago, he shaved her head so that other boys wouldn't look at her.
'She looked up to him as if he were God.'
Addressing the arrests earlier, Mariusz Duszyński from the District Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk said: 'The woman has been charged with two counts of murder and a charge of having an incestuous relationship with her father.
'The man was charged with three counts of murder, a charge of incest with his 20-year-old daughter, and a charge of having incestuous relations with another daughter.'
According to prosecutors, two of the murdered children came from his relationship with the 20-year-old who they say was in a consensual relationship with her father.
The third baby was from a relationship he had with another daughter after forcing her into sex.
The prosecutors added that they suspected him of killing the third baby.

The grim discoveries came after police received a tip-off from social services. One of Paulina's work colleagues is reported to have alerted social services after seeing a 'disturbing' text message the 20-year-old had sent to her father.
Police found the three infant bodies in the basement of the house, each in various states of decomposition. The ground was covered in dirt and there was no solid floor where they were burred.
Moving to the village around 15 years ago, Piotr was left to bring up his children after his wife died."

I'm glad that many citizens seem to understand what the prosecutors somehow can't:  that Paulina never stood a chance against her insane father.  Listen to the things they're saying:  "She looked up to him like he was God."  That's not normal.  He has way too much control over her thinking.  She has no boundaries with him at all.   She made her hellish life as easy as possible by going along with it, and for that, they want to punish her.

I'm confident that justice will prevail now that she and her brother are finally safe from him.  She won't be found guilty, and she shouldn't be. 

I like this channel, dreading.  They do good research.  And as they note in this episode, they're respectful.

What's painful is that this young lady I believe exploited the moment of Rudy Farias' reappearance, another teen who was missing/not missing, to deflect attention from her own situation.

Because I feel like a fool for having given her a pass for her disappearance when upon further reflection, it's obvious that she was groomed, and that she had to have been staying with someone all this time.  She didn't have the resources or life skills to be on her own from the time she left.  It was foolish of me to assume she had been with other people her own age.

Come to find out she's living with a 36 year old man, and has been for at least a year.  Details in between are sketchy at best.

The two of them seem very happy together.  Because Alicia is 18 now, she's not obligated to participate in any criminal investigation about her whereabouts when she was a minor.

But if you watch the linked video, it seems fairly obvious that she met someone online who assisted her in leaving her family at the age of 14.  She's a special-needs kid.  There's virtually no chance she hasn't been sexually active with them this whole time.

In terms of her boyfriend, I watch a lot of different YouTube channels that are based on Chris Hansen's classic "To Catch A Predator," where basically they pose as people like Alicia Navarro online, in hopes of snaring guys exactly like her boyfriend.   And they all look pretty much exactly like him, unless they're even older and scrubbier.

These channels convince guys like him that they're willing to meet up in real life.  And then when they show up they actually have printouts of the chat logs, and they call law enforcement.  But they all pretend to be girls exactly like Alicia Navarro, 14 years old and tiny, and okay with meeting up with a 36-year-old who's willing to be sexually inappropriate with them even though he got fired from Walmart.

So shame on me for accepting Alicia's version of events when she gave that obviously super-vague press conference apologizing to her mother and assuring everyone that she was fine.  No, there's plenty of evidence that actually she was groomed online and has been used by a fat, balding creeper who got fired from Walmart, some 36-year-old online predator, this whole time. 

But because they hid out until she was 18, now it's all fine, just like Rudy Farias' mom. 

Because let's be clear about this:  Alicia's confusion about it is understandable.  HER BOYFRIEND'S IS NOT.  He's a grown-ass man.  He can look at her, look in a mirror, and see that he has nothing to offer her and should step away from the special-needs child.

America sickens me.

Everything is always the victim's fault.

I can only imagine the layer upon layer of fury this father must have felt. 

First he discovered that some adult was manipulating his 11-year-old daughter into sending them nude pictures of herself.  That would put me into a homicidal mood personally.  Think about it:  at 11 she hasn't had a period yet.  She has nothing to show but a child's undeveloped body.  JFC

Then when the police show up, they threaten him to charge his daughter with manufacturing child porn.  It's a complete and total failure to grasp the concept.  The cop in question has only one speed:  throw people in jail.

Luckily her chain of command has somewhat more common sense and that wasn't the direction this investigation took.  But did her father need this shit?  I think not.

My first thought in looking at the mug shot was, "He seems nice."

Sarcasm aside, sweet baby Jesus what a harrowing video.  The individual has pled guilty, so I'm not calling what's shown in the video an allegation. 

A small girl is throwing out trash steps from her home.

An adult man walks up and grabs her by the crotch.  Why can't he just see a little girl and keep walking?  I truly don't understand the compulsion to grab at her genitalia.

The man appears to keep walking, but changes his mind, doubles back, and attempts to grab the girl by the wrist.  She lets out a blood-curdling scream and wriggles away from him.   I hate to wonder what might have happened to her if she hadn't fought, but had frozen with fear instead.

We've seen men walk up and kiss congresswomen who were giving press conferences, kiss or grope TV reporters, all kinds of stupid behavior.  We saw Luis Rubiales having the audacity to say that was a consensual kiss.  A lot of men simply feel entitled to touch or kiss us when we're getting attention.

In yet another example, a reporter in Spain, Isa Balado, was reporting on a store robbery when some dude walked by and grabbed her butt. 

What's even more awkward about this incident, though, is that the in-studio host, a guy old enough to be her dad, insists that she put the guy back on the screen and interview him about it.  And she looks super uncomfortable with that. 

Also it's a little awkward that he uses the word "culo," "ass," instead of a milder word like "pompi," "butt."

But people are outraged by the whole situation.  And a politician gets involved in demanding the guy be tracked down and arrested, which does happen.  But again, this is all too common, this basic, random sort of bullying.

To be clear, the #MeToo Movement is not my business.  The #MeToo Movement is by, for, and about African-Americans.  There was a brief time when it got co-opted by everybody and their mother, and that was kind of disastrous, and then it died down.  So I wish them well from a polite distance.

But comedian Michelle Wolf, on the other hand, wanted to go on tour with Dave Chapelle and Louis CK.  So she needed to push somebody under the bus to get in good with the mean boys.  And not surprisingly, she chose rape survivors, the women who have no friends in society.

The Daily Beast:
Michelle Wolf Slams #MeToo Movement in Netflix Special

"The special’s second episode, for example, focuses on both identity and on #MeToo, which Wolf calls “the worst-run movement I’ve ever seen.” "

I'm willing to bet she doesn't know it's run by Tarana Burke.

"Much of Wolf’s material poignantly points out the hypocrisy white women enact in a society that can often encourage their sense of victimhood, lest they discover and embrace their true power (as she labels it, “Karen-ing”). “Waiting until a couple summers ago to realize that things have been bad for Black people is like needing to see that documentary to know that SeaWorld is bad,” she says at one point. “Like, ‘Did you know whales shouldn’t live in the sink?!’” "

Maybe Michelle Wolf only found out things were bad for black people last summer.  That's about her.  I don't appreciate being lumped in with women like her under the "Karen" label because she's overprivileged and also wants to make money abusing rape survivors by touring with Dave Chapelle.  Her irony  detector must be failing.

"But on other topics, like #MeToo, the comedian’s comments start to feel less considered and more incendiary. During one joke, she sums up #MeToo supporters’ position by saying, “Doesn’t matter what you did. You could have raped somebody or accidentally whispered into a boob. It’s all the same, and you have to die.”"

Actually that didn't happen.  Can she give some examples of people who were disproportionately punished?  No, and she doesn't have to.  She's playing to Dave Chapelle's audience now.

"Wolf says she “was so frustrated by [#MeToo], because I think we genuinely could have made social change."

WE?  Does this broad have a mouse in her pocket?  Is she a sexual assault survivor?  I'll give that a hard no.  She's clearly not part of the #MeToo Movement.  And as a white rape survivor she's  no friend of mine.  I'll invite her to fuck straight off, thanks.

"We could have made things better for women and men, but we fucked it up from the very beginning.”

Again, WE fucked it up?  What exactly did she do?  How did she contribute, other than being willing to tour with professional rape troll Dave Chapelle and his buddy Louis CK? 

"There is, of course, a discussion to be had about how effective #MeToo’s general approach of punishing individual abusers has actually been in promoting justice or spawning long-lasting change. In 2021, for example, The Daily Beast’s Emily Shugerman spoke with insiders who alleged that Time’s Up had lost its way."

That last paragraph is so incredibly wrong-headed I'll handle it in points, and then stop bothering with the whole mess.

• The #MeToo Movement isn't about "punishing individual abusers in order to promote justice or spawn long-lasting change."  It's a social support movement by, for, and about African-American rape survivors, helping those individuals cope with their personal traumas.  All of that other crap is about the movement having been temporarily co-opted by white people on Twitter when Ronan Farrow did his Harvey Weinstein story.  They had to use her hashtag because there wasn't anything for white women.
  
• #MeToo and #TimesUp have nothing to do with each other.  #MeToo is and always was a grassroots, African-American thing that got temporarily co-opted.  #TimesUp always was astroturf, by, for, and about the Democratic elites, that served its purpose and went away.
  
• TimesUp never lost its way.  It was always a "catch and kill" operation to keep Joe Biden's potential claimants out of the way.  And it was 100% effective at doing exactly that.  They never intended to help people like me, and they never did.
  

I never thought I'd see the day when Michelle Wolf would make Jim Jeffries look like a class act, but here we are.  I remember when Jim Jeffries apologized for having been a rape troll, as soon as the whole #MeToo thing got co-opted.  And I thought it was really craven of him, so convenient.  In hindsight I should have accepted his apology.

Because down the road a piece, check out Michael Ian Black, who read the room and realized he could safely get attention for his dead career by coming out anti-#MeToo.  Really even the rapists can all come back and it's fine.  Just like Dave Chapelle lied all over his Elizabeth Smart jokes, so did Michelle Wolf.  It will always be safe to be a rape troll in America.