by | Sep 6, 2012 4:15 pm | Comments (5)
“You got a girlfriend, Bozelko?” AP asks me. AP is my work supervisor at York Correctional Institution.
“Come on, AP. You know me better than that,” I huff. “I don’t like women,” I announce proudly, like heterosexuality is an achievement.
“All right,” he approves.“Good girl.”
by | Aug 21, 2012 3:31 pm | Comments (2)
When I first arrived in prison, an overzealous guard yelled, “Show me pink! More! More pink!” We were bending, spreading, coughing.
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by | Jun 23, 2012 10:38 pm | Comments (0)
Jerry Sandusky, the Penn State University football team’s former defensive coordinator, now stands trial in a Pennsylvania courtroom on more than forty counts of allegedly sexually assaulting minors, boys involved with Sandusky’s non-profit organization, The Second Mile.
During the same week last November when the airwaves filled with the news of Sandusky’s first arrest, forensic psychiatrist Leslie Leibowitz testified, to much less attention, in New Haven during the penalty phase of Joshua Komisarjevsky’s Cheshire home invasion/murder trial. The doctor’s testimony focused on how the sexual abuse Komiarjevsky suffered as a child went unreported, untreated and eventually contributed to his murders and sexual abuse of Jennifer, Haley and Michaela Petit in 2007.
We did not know it at the time, but the media’s juxtaposing the young victims in Pennsylvania with a defendant who has committed some of the most horrific murders in recent history provided the best lesson in crime prevention. That is, the best protection against violent crime is preventing the offender from being created in the fist place. Komisarjevsky was once almost exactly like Sandusky’s victims are now and he shows what childhood sexual trauma victims can become without proper treatment of their abuse.
Continue reading ‘The Sandusky-Komisarjevsky Connection: Today’s Victim Is Tomorrow’s Killer’
