Zachary Nelson : Product of DSHS

There is a story in today's paper about a teen DSHS is planning on civily commiting This kid gets to spend the rest of his life on McNeil Island. And we arnt talking about some kid in the 70s here with the standards of that decade..This guy is a teenager now. Today.

Now I could make an interesting topic on how civil commitment is un-American nonsense and completely unjust. But the real story here is how Zack, at the age of 4, was decided to be a pervert and regularly exposed to "sexual treatment" by the wonderful psychiatric system at DSHS.

What we have here, in Zack, is a child manufactured by DSHS to have issues with sex. It should be no surprise to anyone that if you expose a child on a weekly basis through "therapy" to sexual issues, you are going to not only encourage interest but probably cause shame and make the child feel sexuality is something secret and wrong. Zack is a victim of his parents repressed values and the values of government officials who dont understand that its perfectly nature for children to be curious about their bodies, and perfectly normal for them to feel good about touching themselves. Making an issue of it and bring it up every week causes the brain to develop connections and feeling about sex that normally wouldn't have occurred. As a parent if you uncomfortable with a behavior you casually correct it. You make sure children engaging in sexual play know that you'd perfer they didnt and dont let them have sleepovers or be together unsupervised with children who they are comfortable being sexual with. You DO NOT trying to impose an adult value system or behavior system on children who do not have the biochemical capability to have the feelings and urdges you are concerned about. At 4 years old, or 7 for that matter,  Zack had not developed the "sexual chemistry" that would move this behavior to anything to be concerned about. DSHS therapy sessions however built neurological connections about the topic, and when he did reach puberty those feelings hooked up with all the sexual therapy baggage rather than one of normal developing boys. 

I've seen similar cases in my work with DSHS. One of my foster children was nearly forced into an intense sexual therapy program at the age of 6 just for witnessing a fairly minor sexual act. Make you wonder how children survived for thousands of years without separate bedrooms. When I was working at a special needs daycare the entirety of one kid's file was their parents discomfort with this 5yo touching himself in the bathtub. A perfectly normal 5yo, as far as I could tell,  being exposed to all sorts of mental health issues in legitimately ill kids just because his parents saw him doing something that every child in the history of humanity has done in the bathtub.

I feel bad for Zack..he prob doesnt have a lot people who really care for him. I'm guessing there arnt many people who will go and visit him and see if there is anything worth saving there. You see that in movies from time to time but not in real life. His parents certainly have screwed him over. And now that he is actually raping...I'm not going to say that he has much of a future. But 15 is too early to throw in the towel, and make no mistake, sending him to McNeil island is closing the door on any hope of a future for this person. Nothing good will come of civil commitment and all the wonder issues and friendship and "treatment" that come with it. Thats were we put people who we cant likely cant help but don't have the moral fortitude to execute.

If anyone should spend time in prison (beyond the time served for rape) it should be the idiots who made issue of a 4yo playing doctor.