Prosecution of Sex Crimes
While the Grand Jury criticizes county government and its policy making Board of Supervisors it should look in the mirror for it too is failing in its function to keep law and order.
There is a blatant lack of prosecution by the district attorney’s office of thousands of felony crimes of unlawful intercourse with minors and sexual child abuse that can spread AIDS and cause many other problems. In Orange County, we have more than 4,000 abortions and 3,000 births to minors each year without prosecution.
Our recommendation to the Grand Jury is to demand that the district attorney’s office enforce the law. The Grand Jury can do a great service to us all by doing its job well.
The supervisors’ response to the AIDS crisis was a “Teens and AIDS” brochure.
We object to incomplete sex education material in the brochure. It presumes sexual activity and does not warn of the illegal nature of such sexual activity among minors. We warn of the crime of selling alcohol to minors as a deterrent to such activity.
The same needs to be done with AIDS information. It is misleading to present a “safe sex” message.
SALLY NAVA KANAREK
Executive Director,
Mothers (and Others) Against Child Abuse
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