Why would you be happy to see others get punished? The thought makes me feel terrible. It’s horrifying to know what has happened to people who harm others, just the punishment itself of being evil minded, but then to think of the reality of it.

My nephew introduced me to a friend of his that needed help. He was homeless, coming off meth. Most people would have turned him away but I gave him a place to stay, I gave him money to fix his car to get to work, I also sat and listened to his horrible childhood and cried for him. I prayed very deeply for him.

I also set limits and wished him well, knowing that whatever I gave or even whether my prayers and support did any good was unknowable and that’s okay.

His dad is in prison for raping his toddler cousin. And it wasn’t the first time. His dad is a sexual psychopath, a real one. The very definition of evil.

When this young guy told me the story of his dad, he was emotionless. He showed me the news articles with a straight face. No emotion.

I couldn’t tell if he had it like his dad, where the mind is numb to empathy and love, because that’s a real thing.

Imagine being home when your dad violates your cousin as a baby, and mom calls 911 and your dad sits out back smoking a cigarette like nothing happened - gets arrested and thrown in prison.

He still talks to his dad and needs him. It’s sick! But you can’t exactly tell him not to want a relationship, he thinks or believes that his mom had something to do with it, or there was a mistake of some sort.

Nothing makes me happy about this story, I couldn’t eat for 3-4 days, I was literally sick over it. I can’t imagine feeling happy this sexual predator is punished, I wish he didn’t exist! Watching him burn doesn’t make me feel better. This should never exist in the world and I do pray for him, and his son. I pray so deeply over this situation, it’s more like falling prostrate to God. To beg for forgiveness of these sins in humanity!

None of us should sleep at night, or be comforted. We are all on the hook here in some way because this evil lurks in our blood.

And I personally believe there is more abuse in our general communities than lumped in one side of the voting spectrum, this stuff happens in churches too, it’s everywhere.