Tuesday, September 19, 2006

"I Used To Pick Up Shifts As Santa During Christmastime Because Nobody Told Me Not To, And Because Nobody Checked My Background"

I attended a volunteer training for the Catholic church to remind us not to follow suit of our leaders who inappropriately touch young children. It consisted of two video segments with case studies and interviews with the victimized children, their families, and the pervs. To much dismay, the guy who's been luring kids since he was twelve, the girl who got touched by her priest, and the kid who used to go to his camp counselor's apartment every once in awhile, were all paid actors. I'm still slightly bitter as I and about 35 other volunteer trainees invested our emotions into their stories.
Apparently it was Sucker training also.
The video segments were intermissioned by the training representative who deals with said situations. He profiled himself as the text book child predator, being "large and bearded", exclaiming that he knows how to appropriately interact with children without making them or those around believe he is thinking otherwise. Those tall, bearded, or both in the audience were warned.

I learned several things at this particular session. 1) Don't touch kids. 2)Maturity level is not measured in years.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

paid actors? thats dissapointing. kind of like when my brother found out the blair witch project wasn't real and he had slept with the light on for nothing...
hahahaaa christmastime santas. now those guys are creepy.

that girl said...

hahahaha oh way too immature to hear words like johnson, cookie, and ding a ling in one sitting