Open Investigation

Keep up the fight! Keep having the hard conversations and keep telling the hard stories, child victims need all the voices. It’s no shock to me that this podcast hasn’t been picked up. Not because it isn’t incredible, it’s because it is. It’s because we’re living in a moment where this behavior is pushing for normalization with terms like Minor Attracted Person and groups like MANBLA actively integrating itself into a movement of acceptance. Child trafficking is at a stunning high and we have more missing now than ever before. We seem to be in an environment of regression instead of progression when it comes to protecting our children from this abuse. Protecting the offenders rights above all else is entirely too common. Children are being victimized incessantly and predators find their way into every space a child can be found. Please keep going! We are listening!

Thank you for telling these stories and shining light on these lost children who matter - who have always mattered. We need to know. Keep shining this light, brave Melanie.

I believe some members of communities (multiple definitions) are afraid of change because it means they have to admit they failed to protect these children. I’m sorry. We must pull the fingers out of our ears, open our eyes and our hearts to provide survivors/victims compassion and justice. I believe you. We must do better in the present and future and it should not take 40 or 50 years. The time is now to act and to help.

This is a great podcast on a lot of different levels. It is done so professionally, which I really like. The subject matter is tough, but interesting, andI was immediately drawn in. The epidemic of child sex abuse just boggles my mind. Putting offenders away shouldn’t be such an uphill battle. I think it reaches higher than we think.