{"id":810,"date":"2007-07-05T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T11:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=810"},"modified":"2007-07-05T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T11:31:07","slug":"no-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"No Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sick and tired of reading stories about good-looking people<\/a> who abuse kids.
\nThis one is about a white man with a handsome face and an ethnically acceptable last name, one Bryan M. James, 34. James is accused of biting a tiny 3 year old girl so badly that “she lost part of her upper lip, police said. Her ear was so disfigured that surgery couldn<\/p>


\nAs far as I’m concerned, Bryan James has no excuse for being other than a perfect citizen.
\nHe’s male. He’s young. He’s white. He looks of average weight. He’s not handicapped by having a name that could be Hispanic, Jewish or any other ethnic identification that would make him a target for discrimination.
\nFurthermore, the Herald reports that his neighbors like him: one of them called him a “decent guy”.
\nLet’s stretch credulity and say he didn’t do it. Why, then, didn’t he stop the months of abuse that have left a 3 year old child scarred for life?
\nBryan James has everything going for him and instead of making his life a symphony, he’s turned it into a cesspool.
\nSince no doubt a sympathetic judge and jury will cut him the maximum amount of slack, let’s hope the prison population of wherever this miserable excuse for a human being ends up will impose the kind of justice he deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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