No Excuses

I’m sick and tired of reading stories about good-looking people who abuse kids.
This one is about a white man with a handsome face and an ethnically acceptable last name, one Bryan M. James, 34. James is accused of biting a tiny 3 year old girl so badly that “she lost part of her upper lip, police said. Her ear was so disfigured that surgery couldn


As far as I’m concerned, Bryan James has no excuse for being other than a perfect citizen.
He’s male. He’s young. He’s white. He looks of average weight. He’s not handicapped by having a name that could be Hispanic, Jewish or any other ethnic identification that would make him a target for discrimination.
Furthermore, the Herald reports that his neighbors like him: one of them called him a “decent guy”.
Let’s stretch credulity and say he didn’t do it. Why, then, didn’t he stop the months of abuse that have left a 3 year old child scarred for life?
Bryan James has everything going for him and instead of making his life a symphony, he’s turned it into a cesspool.
Since no doubt a sympathetic judge and jury will cut him the maximum amount of slack, let’s hope the prison population of wherever this miserable excuse for a human being ends up will impose the kind of justice he deserves.