Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Blog 7

Child Victimization



1.        I consider child abuse any physical or mental treatment of a child that will have a lasting effect on their well-being. I think child abuse usually takes place over a lasting period of time and can involve acts such as excessive physical discipline and emotionally damaging behaviors.
·         I don’t think spanking is child abuse. I think it is appropriate as long as it is not done excessively and only for discipline.
·   I think spanking should be allowed because it is necessary to discipline some children. Before they can speak or communicate, it may be the only way kids can understand if they did something wrong and are being reprimanded for it.
·         I think that if parents are punishing their children fairly and safely, they should be able to do it in public. I don’t see a problem with it as long as it is reasonable.
·   I think a reasonable form of public punishment would be putting your child in time out.
·   I feel that spanking children and raising your voice excessively is unacceptable public punishment. Not only will that disturb the rest of the people around, but it could really embarrass the child.
2.       Child pornography is a Class B Felony in Delaware. A person is guilty of this is they knowingly receive, retrieve, or send material depicting a child in a sexual act or simulation of one. If a person is found guilty of child pornography they may face lifelong mandatory sex offender registration as well as lose certain rights. Offenders also face prison time and felony charges.
·         Delaware doesn’t have a specific statute addressing sexting. Anyone caught sending or receiving images of a minor engaged in a sexually explicit act will be prosecuted under child pornography laws.
·         Sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit images or messages by mobile phone.
·         I think sexting should be punished if it is not consensual or involves minors.
·   I think that if a person is sexting photos of themselves or another person to someone who they don’t have a mutual agreement with should be punished similarly to those found guilty of child pornography.
·   I think victims of sexting should be punished if they requested to engage in sexting.
3.       Walter Wesley White, 18, was charged with 24 counts of child pornography. Undisclosed allegations made against him led to the investigation and his arrest. After the police received a search warrant, they found several images of child pornography. He was later released on a $3,000 bond.
·         This type of victimization definitely affected me differently than other types we have researched before. Thinking about children being victimized, especially sexually, makes me sick to my stomach because they are usually defenseless.
4.       Concrete Angel by Martina McBride is a song about a little girl who is abused by her mother and ends up dying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtNYA4pAGjI
A Child Called ‘It’ is a book about a boy who is severely neglected and abused by his alcoholic mother and his story of survival. http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Child_Called_It.html?id=iEeJX0-a1bQC

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