My Last Article! I'm Headed For Jail Time! Not My Fault!

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October 4, 2006

My Last Article! I'm Headed For Jail Time! Not My Fault!

By Dale Hill

It's been fun while it has lasted, but I must admit that I will be going to prison for a couple of years. My fault. I knew better, but I didn't speak up.

As an educator in the United States, I am bound to a system of justice that says, if I know or even suspect a case of child abuse and don't report it, I am heading for the joint to spend some time thinking about the crime I committed.

In fact, in my 34 years, in the education business, I have reported nearly a dozen cases of pedophilia, and once I reported it, it was quickly out of my hands.



Dennis Hastert used to be a teacher. Rep. John Shimkus, Rep. Tom Reynolds, and Hastert are all professional and should be in deep water over this. They should lose their jobs, at minimum, and at most, spend a year or more in jail. That's the way it is, under child abuse laws, going back, long before 1998.

Foley? He should see some jail time. This "get out of jail free" card doesn't cut it, when someone fesses up to alcohol problems and quickly goes to "The Betty Ford Center, " doesn't cut it.

And me? I was lying. I'll be sitting at this MacMinni, hoping to see some Republicans pictures on the Internet.



Authors Website: www.dalehill.us

Authors Bio: Is a 34 year retired educator with a Masters Degree in Counseling - a free-lance writer with articles in Spanish and English Guideposts, Mothering, Oklahoma Observer, Oklahoma Gazette, Westview, Oklahoma Reader, ... . The author has the largest number of published "letters" in the history of Time magazine.

don't apply. They create their own reality, remember?

court. They are REQUIRED to report. They cannot interpret the severity and decide themselves if it meets the criteria of a report. They are required. I did. He should have. NO EXCUSES, DENNY!