Wow. From the mouths of babes…
I can’t imagine having to have gone through something like that. Too bad the “cops” couldn’t have threatened the little bastards boys with a polygraph test, or something that might have made them ‘fess up to the fact they made the whole story up. And I can only imagine the kind of crap their mother must have told them about “faggots” and “queers”. Poor Jacob.

Unfortunately this is the double edged nightmare scenario that I dream about all the time. As a parent we have to force our children out of the age of innocence to explain to them that there are people out there that may want to harm you in unspeakable ways. And on the other side of that coin you are going to have the mischievous little boys and girls who are going to try and take advantage of the situation merely out of boredom or just to see how far they can push the envelope, or even get revenge when someone is brave enough to say, “No, what your doing there is wrong.”

I live in NYC and I don’t want to send my son out into the world un-prepared to face the real dangers that are out there. But I do hope that I am a good enough parent to teach him the difference between right and wrong. I see so many kids in the supermarket and in the schools who seem to have no concept of moral balance.

Anyway Justin my heart goes out to your friend, he clearly got the short end of the stick on this one and it’s really sucks that he has to alter his entire life because two little jerks decided to have some fun or whatever their reasoning may have been behind doing this. We can only hope that his parents were embarrassed enough by the situation to make sure it doesn’t happen again. But then again it’s highly doubtful because if she was truly responsible she wouldn’t have let them go into a public bathroom for that amount of time alone in the first place.

Tim/Justin:

Thanks so much for your comments and kind words. I’m going to see Jacob this weekend and I will share this with him. I know he’ll appreciate it.

Justin