stop hurting our children

After the internet came into being in the end of 20th century, everything seems to be very ready to be entertained. While people are still in their agony of heart-broken truths, the media starts to make fun of trivia of those stories. Right after an Oprah show, some hacker edited some scenes and named it “Oprah vs. 9000 penises”, which had a hideous aim to attracting people’s attention. This video became the “most reviewed” on youtube.com and was followed by several other related entertaining videos. People busy with sharing trashy ideas neglected the true story.

In her show Winfrey Oprah called for a societal attention on pedophile pornography trading through the internet. Many children suffered while they even had no idea what molesting means. Masha was one of them. Adopted by a divorced father in Pennsylvania, Masha had a good wish of starting over a happy life. However, she would have never imagined what she was experiencing in the following five years. Her sick guardian treated her as prisoner and sex slave, which left Masha with unforgettable miserable memories.

This was just part of the story. A girl called Rachelle, the biological daughter of the sick pedophile, shared the same pain since she was five. Both girls were afraid of telling anyone about their tragedies. It is partly due to Rachelle’s silence that Masha experienced her five years of nightmare. Rachelle said she had been determined to “take the secret to grave”.
Internet becomes the medium with acquiescence of cruel crimes. Child sex abuse scenes are shot and traded on-line by pedophiles. While parents were glad to have a neighbor come by, they need to be aware that a nicely-behaving neighbor may be a monster threatening their naive kids.

All of a sudden, I felt that the world was like a bloody hell, where, instead of caring and helping others, people tortured their own group members and felt no guilt at all. Under most of the circumstances media are seen as advanced human communication tools. Ironically, humans invent media to test their own conducts. I don’t know how people develop their mercilessness. But I still remember clearly a song Declan once sang:

Tell me why, ’cause I don't understand
when so many need somebody
we don't give a helping hand
Tell me why…

I think I would prefer to be just like the little singer who has been confused by the world of chaos and quarrels and was tired of fairy tales. Why not let everyone witness the truth and face whatever has happened?