{"id":1008,"date":"2013-02-20T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T03:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klaaskids.org\/blog\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2018-04-03T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T17:31:16","slug":"some-things-never-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/some-things-never-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Things Never Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following article first appeared in <strong><em>Coronet Magazine, August 1946<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1009\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Coronet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1009\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1009\" src=\"http:\/\/klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Coronet.jpg\" alt=\"Coronet Magazine, August 1946\" width=\"350\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Coronet.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Coronet-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coronet Magazine, August 1946<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> heartbroken father, his voice trembling with grief and terror, went on the air.\u00a0 Sobbingly he pleaded with the kidnapper who had snatched his daughter from her bed the night before.\u00a0 He begged him not to harm the child.\u00a0 He would do anything &#8212; anything at all &#8212; if only his little girl was returned home, safe and sound.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks newspapers followed the case, reporting every minor development of the ensuing manhunt.\u00a0 Finally, newsboys were hawking murder headlines that shocked and angered every American.\u00a0 The missing child had not been kidnapped for ransom.\u00a0 She had been abused and butchered.\u00a0 Her kidnapper had been a sex criminal\u2014a depraved prowler who had stolen her from her bed and then had tried to hide his crime by killing a helpless child.<\/p>\n<p>Frantic parents asked for extra patrols around their homes.\u00a0 Americans were aroused, angry, infuriated&#8211;and never was anger more justified.\u00a0 No wonder Americans rage and fume every time shocking headlines meet their eyes.\u00a0 It is ever present, terribly real, and deadly serious.\u00a0 It should not only make us angry&#8211;it should keep us angrily determined to fight the menace until the solution is finally reached.\u00a0 For there is a solution: As the first step toward it, we must completely revise our present thinking about sex crimes and sex criminals.\u201d<b><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following article first appeared in Coronet Magazine, August 1946 heartbroken father, his voice trembling with grief and terror, went on the air.\u00a0 Sobbingly he pleaded with the kidnapper who had snatched his daughter from her bed the night before.\u00a0 He begged him not to harm the child.\u00a0 He would do anything &#8212; anything at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[370],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-megans-law","tag-coronet-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}