Who Are the Predators Teens Should Be More Worried About??

I was listening to the radio station on one afternoon while I was driving. During the week, I like to listen to the talk radio because they usually discuss some interesting things. On this particular afternoon, the topic was kids/teens having sex with teachers and other men/women of authority that the community looks up to and respects. Also, these are the people that you hope are helping you to look after your children and keep them on the right path. Anyway.

As people kept calling in, there was the story of where a girl talked about a minister and her having sex when she was 16 years old. She said that this man had her doing the freakiest things and that he had turned her out. He later had went on to get married and invited her to the wedding.

Another caller said that he had been injured in a game and his teacher was helping to bandage him. As she was wrapping the bandage around him, she was going lower and lower until she was in territory that she had no business being.

Another guy was talking about all the things the "Sisters" had done at the Catholic school that he attended. He actually lost his virginity at the age of 17 to someone who was supposed to help guide and mentor him.

I know the Catholic church has been under a lot of scrutiny lately, but this is not only happening in the Catholic church. I hate that I didn't get to hear the whole program because it sounded like it was really interesting. Not only were they talking to the teens who where going through these ordeals, but also trying to get the teachers and ministers, preachers, or whomever to call in and help shed light on the issue and give their thoughts. Also those who would have been bold enough to admit that they had sex with someone underage.

This is starting to become a bigger issue everyday. We have seen this with the lady, whose name I cannot remember right now, that had sex with her 13 year old student and had his child, and now they are in a relationship together. Not to mention the other lady who had gone to trial for having sex with her student, but got off because she was too pretty.

Now we all give R. Kelly and the likes hell, but what about this? What do you do? How do you handle it? How traumatic is it for the child that went through it. Yes, there are teens out there that look much older than they look. People don't buy it with R. Kelly. They say he should have known better still. Some say these girls these days are spreading their legs just as fast as a woman over the age of 18-25. Still, people don't buy it with R. Kelly. Is there an age where a teen can be held responsible for their sexual actions even if it is with an adult that is over 18? We all know the law is not always right or fair for that matter.

This is a very disturbing issue for me. I guess it is because there is so much that goes on in the community and it is never talked about until things start to boil over, or it is swept under the rug so much that those dust balls have turned into something so huge under that rug that you can no longer ignore it.

Seriously, what do you do? So much of the faith that Black people have comes from their religion. You have to send your children to school, unless you home school them. If you are not home schooling them, then you run the risk of being arrested for not allowing your child to get an education. That is funny to me because it feels like yesterday when we would talk about how Blacks had to fight to get an education. That is another issue for another time.

Point being, if Black people cannot trust to send their children to school because it is the teachers that they have to worry about and not the other kids, what do you do? If Black people cannot trust their spiritual father or spiritual mother, nuns, priests, or whomever and start to lose faith. what is left? Is it a possiblity that this could get so out of hand that Black people will question faith. Of course you can always go to another church, but the damage has been done. It would always be at the back of your mind what happened. Of course their is forgiveness and moving on, but can you really move on from that?

This post is just my mind thinking. I have no answers but only questions. Really, what do you do? What would you do? Are you worried or concerned? Has someone you know had this problem? How do you know your kids, cousin, niece, or nephew aren't going through this now and just haven't said anything? Who should we worry about more? The people closest to us? Or someone that they meet on the streets?