By May 9,
1999 (Mother's Day), I had fallen off to calling the
Emergency Line for Sexual Abuse only about once a
week. Then, in a fit of pedophilic jealous rage, the
perpetrator ripped off one of my fingernails when I
tried to put my arm around my daughter in a fatherly
way at the riding stables.
This injury forced me to go to the doctors for emergency treatment immediately. There I noticed the new "Sexual Abuse, A Border Overstepped" pamplets.
Same
phone number; slightly different content.
And this time, limiting calls to Mondays between 9 and 11 in the morning (once a week, during school hours. Now that makes a lot of sense! Not! Mondays from 9 to 11 would be the time children are in school. Further, why only 2 hours per week, the entire week!)
Interestingly, when I went to the police to file a report the assualt (I had to go to two police stations because the first said they couldn't waste their time on a ripped off fingernail), both police stations also had the new brochures.
I phoned the "Hotline" for the next six Mondays at the proscribed times and always got the same disconnected number signal.
Now, I began to get suspicious: New brochures, same number, no response. I asked myself, "What happens to kids who call this number? What if an abused child can never reach someone to tell his or her story to?"
This injury forced me to go to the doctors for emergency treatment immediately. There I noticed the new "Sexual Abuse, A Border Overstepped" pamplets.
And this time, limiting calls to Mondays between 9 and 11 in the morning (once a week, during school hours. Now that makes a lot of sense! Not! Mondays from 9 to 11 would be the time children are in school. Further, why only 2 hours per week, the entire week!)
Interestingly, when I went to the police to file a report the assualt (I had to go to two police stations because the first said they couldn't waste their time on a ripped off fingernail), both police stations also had the new brochures.
I phoned the "Hotline" for the next six Mondays at the proscribed times and always got the same disconnected number signal.
Now, I began to get suspicious: New brochures, same number, no response. I asked myself, "What happens to kids who call this number? What if an abused child can never reach someone to tell his or her story to?"
