The War on Children By J.R. Dunn

"It seems at times that not a week goes by without a child disappearing or being found dead under ghastly circumstances. It may well be as appalling to you as it was to me to learn that there's no easy means of checking whether or not this sort of crime is increasing at a national level. Child molestation is not one of the seven 'index crimes' utilized by the FBI to track the crime rate. At best, such crimes will be mixed in with 'assaults' or sex crimes in general. There is no central source, and no way to be certain whether the numbers are rising, falling, or standing still.

But general impressions are often correct in cases such as these. That was true with the great crime wave of the 60s, in which the public at large insisted that something unprecedented was occurring with crime levels, while the media, experts, and academics preferred to view it as simply a 'statistical mirage' created by improved reportage. The public was correct -- crime was exploding, increasing faster than at any other time in the nation's history, nearly quadrupling over a period of ten years. Something similar seems to be the case here.

These crimes appear to be peaking in terms of viciousness as well. One example will suffice, a case referred to by Alicia Colon in a recent column."

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