@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:
So...they should have beaten them up, perhaps?
phoenix did not say that.
when she said....
Actually, I think that the victim should have rounded up all the other kids that he knew were victimized, called the media, and confronted the pedophile priest. In that way, he would have accomplished the same goal, and did not put himself in a position where he might be treated as a criminal.
That does make more sense than beating him alone (but who knows is lynch was looking ahead to form a legion of fellow victims)
If Lynch alone tried to get the media together, to watch him alone confront the priest, he may have been look at as a lone nut case.
If he had a dozen or more people who were saying the same thing happened to them, at the hands of this priest....well, strength in numbers.
Was Lynch capable of reaching out and finding other victims, forming a group to approach the priest together? I don't know.
He obviously was able to take matters into his own hands (literally) and do something.
Phoenix, I too cheered when I read your account, and it's unfortunate lynch didn't think of a perhaps better plan, like yours.
I suppose it's easier to be an armchair victim and talk about letting the legal system to do it's work, than to be in the body of a former 7 year old who was forced to suck his 5 year old brothers dick, while a priest jerks off over it.
I have a younger sister, and sitting here imagining having to be forced to go down on her when I was 7 and she was 3 does not make me want to let the courts decide that I can't beat the **** out of him, as an adult.
I appreciate the professional positions dlowan and dys and/were in, but I can't disagree with what Lynch did, even if there might have been a better way.