The Bond Between Child Sexual Deviance and American Fascism
Or how victims and perpetrators are more likely to be Republicans and/or Republican leaning Religious Leaders
The Republican Obsession with Child Sexual Abuse
In the world of the Far Right Fascist and Christo Fascists, one can not avoid the obsession held by them over children as victims of child sexual abuse and/or trafficking. First of course, is the obsession of the well being of a child from conception and the denial of women to have autonomy over their own bodies. As a three legged stool of dogma “child trafficking” and “pedophilia.” would have to be next. This is not to suggest that these depravities the assumed mental illness associated with these acts are not things to be waved off. However, Fascist Republicans seem fixated on blaming people who are not the perps in these crimes.
It is a almost bedrock Republican Fascist act of faith that Gay men and Drag Queens are pedophiles or engaged in preparing children for sexual abuse
Belief in the “Grooming Myth” by Party Affiliation:
Just who are the actual perpetrators and Groomers?
According to the best reliable data 90% of child sexual abuse is from family members or trusted acquaintances. 33% were family members (including parents, siblings, cousins). Another 59% were acquaintances (friends of the family, neighbors, babysitters) with only 8% being strangers.
The Sound of Freedom or of Fear and Paranoia
If you are not familiar with the movie “Sound of Freedom” (2023) then you are more likely a Democrat. This film was a huge hit with Republican and QAnon minions alike. Starring Jim Caviezel it was based on the real-life story of Tim Ballard, a former Homeland Security agent who founded Operation Underground Railroad, an organization focused on combating child trafficking.*
Again, this crime is especially loathsome because it is children.To provide context, the National Human Trafficking Hotline (Polaris Project) In 2021 gave 10,360 human trafficking reports in the U.S. Of these, 1,611 were minors involved in sex trafficking.
Comparing this to Rape Statistics (Most Recent Full Year - 2022): an estimated 126,430 cases of forcible rape were reported in the United States Of those, more than 90% of victims were female Most victims were aged 16 to 30.
Doing a back of the envelope calculation, all the reports of human trafficking compared to rape is about 8%. When we use the reported case of child trafficking the rate goes to a little over 1%
Again we see the perpetrators of these acts of reported rapes involved an offender known to the victim, such as an acquaintance, partner, or relative.
What we see here is that Republicans focus on fear
This is why the rape of women (which the Bureau of Justice believes to as high as 500,000, based on their national survey) is perceived as a matter primarily of girls who can’t keep their legs closed, while the numbers of children who are trafficked is perceived as akin to the illegal migrant caravan at our border.
This is also why abortion (again because women can’t keep their legs closed) is tantramount to murder, while reportedcases of child neglect and abuse
The substantiated cases reported (by teachers, police officers, lawyers, and social services staff) of child maltreatment in 2022 were categorized as follows:
Neglect: 415,445 cases
Physical Abuse: 95,026 cases
Sexual Abuse: 59,044 cases
Psychological Maltreatment: 38,030 cases
Medical Neglect: 10,863 cases
Around 27% of these reports were specific to children from birth to 2 years of age.
* It is worth noting that that Caviezel played Jesus in the Mel Gibson “Passion of the Christ” which amounted to at least one hour of watching the “Son of Man” being excoriated, tortured and nailed to a cross, presumably so you will know just what he sacrificed for his followers. Apparently, this event and the movie, while celebrating the Death Cult of Jesus, had very little effect on the greater number of sects such as Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist faiths that to this day have far more followers. It is fair to say this movie was about stoking the hatred of Jews as the killer of Christ that is so essential to Christian Evangelical and End Times Philosophy
Sources:
Kaplan, A. (2023, March). Poll: 45% of Republicans agree with false claim that LGBTQ people “grooming” children. NBC News.
U.S. Department of Justice “ Human Trafficking
FBI Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation
ICE/HSI Human Trafficking Investigations
National Human Trafficking Hotline - Polaris Project