Darkness and emotional feelings swallowing up the ten year old boy sitting at a dark corner. As he sat there, negative and abominable thoughts came rushing through his mind making him cringe and coward back into the corner. Those dirty hands who have touched him left him with a broken mind and soul. What people have not known is that the child has been a victim of child sexual abuse from a pedophile, an adult who engages in sexual activities with a child (ProQuest). Pedophiles can be anywhere, they can be family members, school staffs, or even priests. About more than 4,000 priests in the United States (U.S.) have been accused of sexually abusing children (ProQuest). Even the most beloved teacher can even be a pedophile (Weissenstein). These pedophiles are not even receiving harsh punishments, but only with amount of years in prison (Weissenstein). Sexual predators should face harsher prosecution standards. One reason why sexual predators should face harsher punishments because they get away easily after damaging a child. One …show more content…
As the children grew older, they may feel ashamed of themselves because they had been a victim of child sexual abuse. They may also feel powerless because during those time they had been assaulted, nobody was there to help them and they may also feel like nobody understands them (“Effects of Child Sexual Abuse on Victims”). They can also develop distrust around other people due to being assaulted at a young age and it will take them longer to warm up to people they just met. This gives them a hard time to trust people around them unless they started to grow comfortable with that person (“Effects of Child Sexual Abuse on Victims”). Pedophiles should receive harsher punishments because of all the abuse they had done to the children causes them to be mentally and physically