By Myra Bean

If someone actually offered to sell their daughters to you, a caring, upstanding person would call the police. You see, slavery is ILLEGAL in the United States. The Emancipation Proclamation signing is celebrated across the nation during various Juneteenth events.

This man who wrote, produced and sang one of the most influential songs of the 1990s, “I Believe I Can Fly,” proclaimed his innocence and then said he paid parents for their children’s time. That is pedophilia, slavery, prostitution, and any other names along that line.

So who do we believe? Yes, he did something.

This documentary about Michael Jackson, the dead one, that’s messed up. Those young men had their time to come clean and they waited 10 years after he died to bring that up.

Yes, Michael did it, but the time to speak up was in a court of law while he yet lived.

Everybody else did and they were young. Why did these two lie on the witness stand? I guess the statute of limitation must have passed for perjury on the witness stand and now they can make money and not face jail time.

In these kind of situations, most people are not lying. They are ashamed and blame themselves that they were abused. It takes a lot for these people to come forth. Sometimes, defendants have really good lawyers and they are found not guilty. I believe if these guys had come forth in the courtroom, Michael would have been found guilty.

That is an unpopular belief because it has been turned into a racial thing not a fair thing.

I know the lawyers on the other side say children are unreliable witnesses and stuff like that to discredit them, but innocent children cannot make this stuff up. So it is better to err on the side of the victim until proof can be found they are liars. This will keep children from places where they feel they will be harmed.

I hate it would ruin someone reputation if they are actually innocent but people should not put themselves in the position that they can be accused. The same goes for any kind of discrimination in the workplace.

People should be heard if they feel they cannot comfortably work or visit a place because they are the targets of someone else’s desires.

All of these things are happening locally. It is not relegated to just the big cities. Children are being molested in smaller areas here. Girls are being sold into slavery and prostitution.

We whisper because we want our neighbors to continue to like us and they are harming children who play with your children. Your children go to the house where a parent is abusing their children. Sometimes we put our family members in harm’s way because we automatically assume a victim is a liar. Until that is proven, we need to assume the victim is telling the truth.