There is a 15 year difference between my brother and I, so we really never grew up together like brothers.  However, I was there for a few years of his life, and as many would guess I was there for all of my childhood with his mother, my mother.

One year, just before Christmas, I had a fight with my mother.  I slammed the Kitchen door.  Unfortunately, my younger brother's finger was in the jam, and it was almost cut completely off.  I felt terrible, but my mother rushed him to the Hospital where they sewed it back on.

Next year, my brother was fighting with his twin sister.  As he was all of about 4 at the time, she was a bit bigger and pushed him down the stairs.  He broke his arm.  Another emergency room visit.  But this time, they would not let him go.  2 times in 2 years?  Must be Child abuse!

Never mind the fact that he was 6 of 7 children.  Never mind the fact that the only other of us who had any broken bones was another sister who broke it many years earlier chasing a pet rabbit down a hill.  Never mind that given 7 children, an NCO salary, we were all very healthy and well fed.

Never mind that there was no evidence of child abuse.  Nope, it was just the seriousness of the charges (does that sound familiar?). 

Eventually, after a lot of legal fees and a lot of time in Foster care, my Brother came back to live with us.  It did not matter, my mother was guilty and had to prove her innocence.

It is a tragedy when any child is abused.  It is even more of a tragedy when any child dies from Abuse.  But the statistics are overwhelming in support of the fact that most parents are not abusers.  Less than 1 percent are actual abusers.  Yet because of  that 1 of every 100 parents that are guilty, 99 other parents have to live in fear that their constitutional rights have been usurped by a bunch do gooding Nazis.

Yes, I said and mean Nazis.  For it was in Germany where you were guilty until and unless you could prove your innocence.  And so it has become in many cases (note the not all) here in the US.  Hillary Clinton's 'Village' is not only trying to raise the child, it is trying to snatch that child away from caring and loving parents in 99 out of a 100 cases.

Preposterous you say!  Not every parent is an accused child abuser! Oh really?  If you are presumed guilty until proven innocent, then every parent is a child abuser until they can prove their innocence.  Most just never are caught and they raise healthy and happy children, to the chagrin of the do good Nazis.

Condemning 100 people for the crimes of one is not the USA I was raised in and learned about in School.  Even Charles Manson, Richard Speck, and Jeffrey Dahmer were presumed innocent until proven Guilty.

But then they were not accused of Child abuse either.