A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article (https://tinyurl.com/thestoryon...) has a wordy but clear headline "A teen has been accused of three sex assaults in four years. A victim wants him tried in adult court."
We have literal monsters in our midst. Every effort to describe the situation differently falls flat. Some are very young, but already fully monsters - only a "professional" could think otherwise.
Read the article, all the way to the end, and you will encounter the most disturbing part of the whole sordid story. The acts attributed to this "boy" are breathtakingly heinous, but then we get the report from the psychologist who examined him. While he could not diagnose any of the usual mental illnesses, the psychologist did conclude that the 16-year-old had a "conduct disorder diagnosis" due to a "repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated." In other simpler words, he's a criminal.
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The psychologizing of our culture has reached to stunning levels. This young male's behavior would not long ago be defined by monosyllabic words like "crime" and "sin" - but we feel better about ourselves if we can be convinced that there is some "chemical imbalance" or "lack of education" that can be counted as the "root cause." Do they really think they can rehabilitate this young person?
The root cause is sin - the evil human desire to be God, or at least to be free of the holy precepts of a holy God. No criminal offender can be rehabilitated apart from a combination of severe civil punishment and a determined commitment to confrontation of his perversions. And our "juvenile justice" system is utterly impotent without the application of the Scriptures that God gave us for our teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness (2 Tim 3:16).
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These Scriptures also teach us the way of REAL justice, including the need for the execution of rapists (see Deuteronomy and Exodus). Since we do not have the will to carry out this punishment - or, more likely, since we lack the trust in government to allow it to act as God has ordained - we can expect to have more rape. Pray with me for a return to government trustworthiness that will make the death penalty possible again - that no one would experience the trauma of rape ever again.
