The Kindness of Stranges - By Katrina Kittle

This one is hard one to know where to start. Should I start by mentioning how shocking it is the portrait of a molested 11 year old boy by his own parents? or by the fact that he tries to kill himself on a port-o-John with a needle stuck on his neck?
The Kindness of Strangers definitely makes you stop to think how we really don't know our neighbors, or how close evil may live from us.
It makes you realize that as hard and horrible it is, child molestation happens to the most "seemly" normal families, and that as much as it is a hard topic, it can't be ignored. Nobody wants to think of theses things for being too terrible, nobody wants to think that there are people out there who has sex with children, in some cases, they own children. But by not talking about it, is not going to make it go away, is it?. I find this book an eye opener big time to the fact that so many normal looking people can be involved in those monstrous things. You see, because that's the problem with society, we never create a image of normal and respected people as child molesters in our minds. We tend to create this "monster-scary-looking" image of people capable of those atrocities. I believe that's our biggest mistake. The same way that serial killers don't go running down the street with a axe on it's hands, we can't tag child molesters with any sort of "off" label to them. As a matter of fact, the profile of a predator is of a White male, usually very respected on his community, with a professional degree, always involved on some sort of children's environment or activities. I think this book puts you on a different frame of mind to be aware not in a witch-hunt type of way, but to believe that evil does not necessary have to look ugly to be there.