Blogpost # 7: Bullying Nurture Our Future Law Offender

Have you ever committed a crime? An action that consider as an offense that may be prosecuted by the authority and is punishable by law? Something illegal or something that although not consider as unlawful, but something evil, shameful or wrong? If so how? There are four categories of crime, One is the offense against the person; it’s when someone has inflict a harm to another person. That also divided into three categories (Fatal offense, sexual offense, and non-fatal non sexual offense). Second is the violent offense, it’s a crime that usually ends with violence such as Murder, robbery, homicide to harassment. Third is the Sexual offense that deals with the regulation by law of sexual activity, this includes sexual abuse. And sometimes the law forbid someone to do engage in sexual activity if he/she has a sexual disease that can be pass through sexual intercourse to prevent the disease from spreading from one human to another. Fourth is the offense against property this only includes the crime of taking money or property such as; burglary, arson, theft, vandalism, and shoplifting.

There are so many reasons why people still engaged in this kind of wrong doings. Despite the fact, that this kind of activity is punishable by law. I've read an article entitled "Bully Today, Criminal Tomorrow" by Dr. Laura Finley from the site www.thehumanityproject.com, in this article the author linked bullying on the prevalence of crime that involves teenagers. Dr. Laura stated: "Bullying in youth is a risk factor for later delinquency and criminal activity. It is not just the bullies who are at greater risk, though. Victims of bullying are also more likely to be involved in some type of criminal activity later in life." One Swedish study reveals that 55 percent of children who perform bullying, is more likely to commit one or two crimes when he reached adolescence, and 38 percent has a high chance to be involved in at least three crimes. This article is comprised with another report conducted by the U.S. about the link between crimes and bullying. The report said that 60 percent of the students who considered as a bullies between 6th an 9th grade will most likely to commit one crime by the age of 24, and 40 percent would be sentenced because of three or more crimes.

“In particular, male bullies who have mental health or psychiatric problems have been found to be far more likely to commit violent crimes as adults,” says Laura Finley

Many studies now had already proven that a child who has a background of being abused mentally, physically, or sexually may develop wrong morals which makes them introverts and have a strong dislike for the society around them. They grow up believing that the world is never in favor of them. That’s why victims of bullying are more likely to be engaged in criminal activity. Studies have shown that they may act powerful later in life. They will do anything and will do any extent to make sure they are in charge. This is also supported after the Columbine massacre in 1999; the U.S. Secret Service reviewed 37 school shootings and found out that bullying had been a major factor in two-thirds of them. Both bullies and victims are more likely than other students to carry weapons to school, increasing the likelihood of criminal activity on school grounds.

 “Both bullies and victims are more likely to get involved in intimate relationships that are abusive. Both are also more likely to use illegal substances. And both are at far greater risk to commit suicide than the general population,” says Laura Finley

Serial killers and mass murderers: are the only people capable of thinking death and fun together they find the thrill of killing innocent children, boys or girls, older woman and mature man pleasurable. Seeing the face of their victims as they express how much pain they were suffering makes a serial killer to do more harm to it. Strangling, raping innocent children, decapitating them, mutilating, sodomizing, torturing them, and there are some instances where they are eating some body parts of their victim. These people were really horrible in nature. But, do you know that these kinds of people have all something in common? And that we can prevent someone from turning into this “heartless monster”

You’ll know everything about it in this article entitled “Serial Killer’s Psychology” by Chaitra Suraj Saxena from the site www.buzzle.com we can’t see what’s happening on a serial killers mind. But we know that they are the kind of people who kills 3 or more people, and that they’re doing this because of hatred and fear, because they have experienced unhappy or traumatizing childhood. A person who feels inferior in childhood because of abuse will have the tendency to be obsessed with being in power when they grow up. And they will kill just to get this position in power. Children who grow up with the absence of parents love and the feeling of unwanted, is more likely to become violent later in life. Most of their victim are someone that is weaker than them, usually woman and children. Only a few serial killers target an old and middle-aged man.

“There have been cases where a person lived with dead bodies and treated them as family. This shows a serious problem of low self-esteem caused due to rejection. This sense of rejection can be so profound that serial killers prefer to live with dead bodies to overcome the fear of being rejected,” says Chaitra Suraj Saxena

This is evidence that a person who experience abuse will develop a twisted view in life. They thought that they’re not doing something wrong because that's how other people treat them. This kind of mindset that doesn't know what is wrong and right makes serial killers so very dangerous and unpredictable. In most of these serial killers, lies a common background of abuse - mental, physical, or sexual. In childhood this may lead to misplaced morals which makes inculcates a deep loathing for the society around them. All in all, serial killers have a background of abusive parents, ignored childhood on account of a dysfunctional family, and totally displaced moral values, extremely low self-esteem, and a seriously wrong concept of life and the working of society.

Many psychologists are convince that if only these kinds of people have been part of normal happy family that would at least lessen the thoughts of killing and prevent them from turning into a complete monster. There is no other solution than a complete family would give, a family that will support them whenever they have problem. A mother that will loved them with all her heart. An understanding father that will correct their wrongs. This kind of happiness would have been saved them.

I've found a list of serial killers and some of them really have a background of being abused in their childhood. This is not just a simple list of serial killers, but the list of the most heinous serial killer's throughout history. The article is entitled “Top 10 serial killers” by Sheetal Mandora from the site www.buzzle.com

John Wayne Gacy was a respected member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, owner of a contracting business, and local Democratic Party’s precinct captain. Gacy was born in 1942 to an abusive and alcoholic father. Gacy is a homosexual and a child molester. After Gacy married and had two kids, rumors about him being a homosexual and a child molester began to circulate. When he started his contracting/building maintenance business, he hired mostly young teenage boys to continue his crimes. His neighbors, then started to complain about strange odors coming from his house and the Police discovered tons of evidence along with 33 bodies buried on and near Gacy's property. Gacy was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection. Gacy's last words: Kiss my ass.

Henry Lee Lucas was born August 23, 1936 to an alcoholic couple. His mother work as prostitutes to run the house while his father (would drown himself in alcohol all day. Henry had 8 siblings, but all were given to relatives, foster homes, and certain institution. Henry is “lucky” to stay with his parents.  After his father's death (fatal case of pneumonia), Henry was exposed to his mother's cruelty. His mother then finds a new lover “Uncle Bernie” who’s also an abusive and violent father. Henry is so desperate to know what sex with a human would be like, at age 15, He then kidnapped a girl, but he strangled it and bury the body near the woods when she tried to fight back. When convicted Henry had confessed to almost 3,000 murders, including his mother and he also said that he rape his mother’s corpse. In 1998, Henry was sentenced to the death penalty. But, Henry died in 2001 in prison due to heart failure.

“Sex is one of my downfalls. I get sex any way I can get it. If I have to force somebody to do it, I do... I rape them; I've done that. I've killed animals to have sex with them, and I've had sex... while they're alive,” says Henry Lee Lucas

Pedro Alonso Lopez (The monster of Andes). He killed about 350 women and children. He was born in 1949 and was the 7th of the 13 children. At age of 8, his mother (a prostitute) caught him touching his sister's breasts and was then thrown out of the house forever. While he was living on the violent streets of Colombia a man offered to take him to a safe home. But the man forced Lopez to have sex with him. When Lopez came back to live in the streets an American couple provides a shelter for him and sent him to a school especially for orphan. But, a male teacher molested him. And he comes back into living in the streets and commits various crimes. At the age of 18 he was imprisoned and was gang-raped by his inmate. This kind of experienced brought a rage in his heart. . In 1978, he moved to Peru after being released from prison. There, he began abducting young girls; he raped and strangled them. Lopez would kill his victims during the day, so that he could see their eyes more clearly. He would use the corpses to play morbid games and hold tea parties. After he was arrested (due to an abduction that went wrong), Lopez confessed of killing more than 100 children in Peru, 100 in Colombia, and around 110 in Ecuador.

Albert Fish was born with the name Hamy Fish and was the youngest in a family of 4 children. His mother put him in an orphanage. He would get whipped there oftentimes and also realized that he was aroused by this and also enjoyed the physical pain. At age 12, he got into homosexual relationships and was also introduced to drinking urine and eating dung. Fish is considered to be America's most despicable pedophile, serial killer, and cannibal, he is also known by the names like Brooklyn Vampire, The Boogeyman, Gray Man, and the Werewolf of Wysteria. He had Multiple Personality Disorder. To the public, he was a kind grandfather, wonderful husband, and a model father to his kids, a complete contrast to the monster that he was from inside. He would also love to push needles inside various parts of his body, including his genitalia. And an X-ray report showed that there were about 27 needles in his body. At age 55, Fish started to experience hallucinations and believed that God had ordered him to castrate young boys. Fish was suspected to have killed 5 children, but he admits that he “had” about 100 in all the states to have "had”. Fish was sentenced to an execution on an electric chair. But, people are still wondering what does “had” mean cannibalization or molestation among 100 kids.

Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was born in 1936. This Ukrainian serial killer commits 53 murders (women and children). Chikatilo was a bed wetter and was often beaten and scolded by his mother. Chikatilo growing up was very shy, especially to woman. The only sexual experience Chikatilo had. Is when he raped his sisters 11-year-old friend. Chikatilo committed his first murder when he moved to Shakhty. When he took a 9-year-old girl to an old house and tried to rape her, but couldn't achieve an erection. He strangled her to death and stabbed her body, which helped him ejaculate. Chikatilo’s is much more violent when compare to other killers as he would stab his victims repeatedly caused he feels that only in that way that he can release his sexual tension. In 1990, Chikatilo was arrested and there he confessed his 56 murders. In a trial that happens in 1992, Chikatilo was found guilty and was sentenced to death.

“Behind every murder, as each victim becomes a target one after another, lies a reason; either they have mental illnesses or harvest pure hatred and rage due to their past, childhood, or certain events. These killers are mere fragments of the beasts, psychopath and sadistic minds, who have succeeded in making the act of murder from a grotesque anomaly to an everyday horror. Doctors, who look in the psyche of any serial killer, report that each individual acquires positive attitude towards life and people during their childhood. However, this attitude can quickly change into a negative one due to physical and emotional child abuse,” says Sheetal Mandora

Now, here lies another reason why we should stop bullying, and start to treat our children with proper care and love. We now know that one major reason why a person commits a crime, is when he undergone such abuse early in childhood. So, as an adult it is our responsibility to teach our children what is wrong and that bullying is not right, to interact with others in a peaceful manner and to have respect to one another. I’m sure that you don’t want to see news saying that a student carry a weapon to school and go on rampage, killing those kids who make fun of them and his own teachers or another serial killer who killed several innocent children, raping women, decapitating and eating his victims. All evidence is now presented, it is in your hands now. Make a choice. Stand up. Speak up. Stop bullying.