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RAP1958 t1_ixcd418 wrote

My wife and I drive around the back roads of Maine daily. There is an incredible amount of back breaking poverty in this state. White privilege is a bad joke up here! That being said only a sick fucking coward would abuse a child, no matter where they fall on the economic scale. Maybe some serious consequences like a jail sentence that isn't a weekend at the country club. 20 year mandatory, one year added for every year the child is below 18yo.

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MathematicianGlum880 t1_ixcjta3 wrote

Back in 2013, my husband and I drove around the back road of West Virginia on a motor cycle, I have never in my life seen such poverty. Blankets hanging where windows should be, and people were actually living there. The poverty in that state is much worse than Maine. When we visited my husbands friend, he told us to park our bike in a friends barn, as there would be nothing left of it the next day. Moonshine everywhere and every kind imaginable. And because our RV was older than dirt, we had to stay in derelict campgrounds. The campground in Indiana was riddled with sex offenders and domestic violence offenders. I never in my life felt so unsafe. It’s not just Maine, trust me. I took a statistics course in the 90’s at USM and most statistics are skewed. You find what you are looking for.

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