We Make Our Own Monsters
We Make Our Own Monsters
Former* PROTECT national advisory board member Andrew Vachss has often said “we make our own monsters” by hurting children. Now the St. Petersburg Times is reporting on one of them.
*NOTE: Vachss resigned from Protect in 2015, and is no longer associated with the organization.
“Rapist Joseph Frye…” says the paper, “has spent almost half of his
life incarcerated, but he’s spent his entire life in the state’s
care–from his crib at a foster home to a center for juvenile
delinquents to a jail cell.”
The Times sought and obtained records from the State of Florida on
Frye’s juvenile record. After a childhood in a series of foster homes,
one where he set fire to the back yard, Frye was institutionalized at
11.
“The following year, his stepfather, Alfred Weekes, was charged with
lewd and lascivious conduct upon him…. Frye’s mother discredited the
account of abuse when it happened…”
Frye has been called a sociopath, whose most recent rape victim was in her 70s.
The case of Joseph Frye, and his preventable path of destruction, is a
reminder of another saying of attorney and author Vachss:
“child protection is crime control.”