I made a difficult decision this week to close my blog to the public. A few days ago I learned that a convicted sex offender has moved into our neighborhood and is residing very close to my children's school and our neighborhood swimming pool. Because of this man's predatory history of violence against children, I felt it was in my family's best interest to restrict access to information about the kids.
Because I do not have email addresses for everyone who reads my blog, please let me know if you are aware of anyone who might have been a reader who now cannot access the blog. I'll be glad to add them, as long as know who they are.
It's a crazy world.
3 comments:
oh for shit's sake...
human beings aren't born criminals, yet here's another one who was made by who knows who or what... parents, workplace bullies, sexual repression, grandparents... i don't empathize with criminals in general, but i empathize with the fact that our society engineers and manufactures them and that they were once people like you and i.
Jace,
I totally agree with you.
I suppose I didn't make my point very clear. He isn't the reason I restricted my blog. He has served his sentence and says he just wants to live a quiet life in his home. That's fine. But this event made me realize that predators are every place there are children, and I haven't been paying close enough attention to that fact. I do make certain I know where my children are all the time, but putting information about them openly on the internet was, in my opinion, putting them at risk. Ninety-six percent of the predators out there gain access to their victims by befriending them and their families, by gaining their trust. Broadcasting details about the kids where anyone could access it, I believe, was putting them at additional risk. I am not willing to do that right now.
I've been thinking about starting the blog over, or just changing the names and deleting where we live. I just need to think about it some more while I get used to the idea that a man who raped 3 young boys is now living close to me. That freaks me out. I can't help it. I am a mother. It's just the way I am.
Carla
I'm glad you've re-opened your blog.
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