But now am found… – Belfast Peeler
Posted by nakedcop on February 10, 2007
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First published Thursday 28th December 2007:
But now am found…
You might scarcely believe it but there are still one or two tasks that do not require a ridiculous amount of forms in order to do them. Yet.
One such duty is the “return home interview” carried out with young people who have turned up safe and well, to some degree or another, after having been reported missing. The aim is simple; to instil in said young person some idea of the impact their disappearance has had on their loved ones. So it is with the sternest composure I can gather that I enter the home of a girl, aged 13, who has come home 24 hours after leaving with mates. How do you impress on someone that age the immense foolishness and very real peril they place themselves in when they leave their safety in the hands of strangers?
Do I tell her the truth ? That I have seen and met people so vicious and callous it makes me ashamed to regard them as being the same species as me? That I’ve dealt with victims for whom being merely raped and beaten would have been a mercy? I don’t see how I can.
I don’t see how you could ever explain to anyone the gaping lack of humanity that is implied by people’s action and inaction every single day. I don’t believe it so why would someone else who has absolutely no frame of reference possibly consider the very least of what I could tell them as any more real than the bogey man.
Perhaps it would suffice to explain that whenever she wakes in the middle of the night and imagines there are monsters peering in at her from the darkness outside her window; there are, there really really are.
