A federal prosecutor, MySpace and a five year old

By: American Decency Staff

Another one falls. A federal prosecutor out of a conservative area in Florida picked up at Detroit Metro. Detroit Free Press title: “Feds: Prosecutor sought ‘younger girls’ on MySpace” http:www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070918069  Adults risking their reputations to have sex with a minor. What prompts individuals to act so recklessly and often seemingly uncharacteristically? What does such irrational behavior reveal? If it doesn’t point to the powerful draw of sexual images and words, that grown men with PHDs, with families, good reputations and good incomes would risk everything to have sex with a youngster, then I don’t know what it more powerfully communicates. Yet on it goes. Year after year since the Internet has become increasingly popular and user friendly. Wide open to anything and everything. If seasoned adults are stirred and manipulated by images, especially pornographic images, then there is certainly cause to be concerned for our children. TV has “softened up” natural barriers and paved the way for almost total capitulation to the Internet. Pause with me to consider: Obviously, there are untold numbers of adults who can’t handle the wide-open nature of the Internet. The reports of their ruin as mentioned above – is tragic. Lives ruined. Relationships destroyed. But what about the millions who even this day have been surfing the net. They are no where near to trading reputation for sex with a child. But they are looking and lusting, perhaps masturbating, becoming desensitized and/or addicted. Certainly their thought life is being incrementally corrupted. There is a price to be paid. We are beginning to pay it and are in almost total denial. The American culture has become secularized, godless, materialistic, seekers of cheap thrills rather than seekers of God. Sadly, it seems the church is not far behind. Something is wrong, too, when even Christian youth group leaders encourage young people to go on MySpace and have their own MySpace sites. Are pornographic images and ads acceptable collateral fallout for our youth? Is this simply the price to pay for a community within a Christian youth group? Here’s yesterday’s lead story in the Detroit Free Press and elsewhere: (Read it and weep) Federal prosecutor is arrested in sex sting Police say he solicited sex with Michigan 5-year-old http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070918/NEWS04/709180375 “A federal prosecutor flew to metro Detroit with a Dora the Explorer doll, hoop earrings and petroleum jelly for a 5-year-old he planned to have sex with, police say. John David Roy Atchison — who prosecutes civil and criminal matters as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern Florida District — appeared on the other side of the law Monday in Detroit federal court. Atchison, 53, of Gulf Breeze, Fla., was charged with enticement of a minor using the Internet and knowingly traveling interstate to engage in illicit sex. …” Personal note: Be holy for I am holy is not just some little church saying – it’s the Word of God. As God warned Israel as they drifted away from their God, so He warns and calls us back to Him. I will place no evil thing before my eyes. [Psalm 101:3a] Do you love me? Then keep my commandments. [John 14:15] My sheep Hear My voice and they follow me. [John 10:27] Be not hearers of the Word only but doers. [James 1:22] For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. [Romans 8:14] Test all things. Hold fast what is good. Abstain from all forms of evil. [I Thessalonians 5:21,22] I beseech you therefore God by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice. Holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service. [Romans 12:1] ======================= American Decency Association Bill Johnson, President P.O. Box 202 Fremont, MI 49412 PH: 231-924-4050 www.americandecency.org

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