Crim creation.
Now I’m strongly of the belief that criminals are made and not born. It takes a set of (specifically home based) circumstances to create a career criminal and it’s these things we should fight.
Take my niece for example. She’s technically my wife’s niece not mine. Her brothers daughter. Now she’s had a hard life and no mistake. Very poor upbringing, mother died very young, her father suffered many mental problems and has just died. She’s had three kids so far and has another on the way. But she’s OK for the most part. She has extremely low self esteem and as a result has hung around with some seriously dodgy blokes. The most likely chap being a fat, scouse thug who I’d shoot like a mad dog if the law allowed it. He’s beaten her up, her father, her current boyfriend (who’s claimed he’s going to rectify that situation shortly) and no doubt a selection of people who have looked at her at all).
Anyway, she’s got a variety of children to the blokes she’s known. We went round her house (me for the first time) the other day. This is what greeted me.
One 6 year old playing GTA4 (highly violent, sexually explicit – you get to have sex with prostitutes in it) on a nintendo.
One 18 month year old baby on the fire guard, ON THE WRONG SIDE!.
One 18 month year old baby staggering about with a nappy round her ankles being followed by a very bad smell.
A quick tsck! And the 18 month year old lad was retrieved from within 6 inches of the fire. Then him and his sister adopted the position. I’m still of the opinion that crims are made and not born but these two were against the fireguard, arms against the grill, legs spread wide. They were ready to be searched. Get used to it!
Then, the 18 month year old boy found A SHARPENED SCREWDRIVER FFS!!! And started trying to prize a cupboard apart like he was jemmying a door. It really was quite impressive, he was almost in when I decided to take the sharpened tool off him. I wish I could have taken a picture of him doing it. Like a professional he was.
The tableau was complete when the older lad dropped his nintendo and shouted at my son, “Chase me, I’ve nicked some money and you’re the coppers. You’ll never catch me”, and darted out the door into the kitchen.
Again, get used to it, expect expect to be caught more often.
I’ve been banned by my wife from trying to suggest that there might be alternate moral paths for various members of her family to take but really, I can see exactly what needs to be said and done to this family to stop them turning into the family fromhell. I can stop it right now and make their life better overnight, but oh no, we have to look after the mothers feelings. She’ll suffer immensely in the years to come as her children deal out suffering to a succesion of strangers and it could have been stopped with some simple and easily applied controls but no, it’d hurt her feelings.
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December 4, 2009 12:14 am
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