Outrageous!

I don’t know where to start.  There is no tip toeing around this.  We are becoming a sad excuse for a civilization.  I just read several articles about a four year old boy living in New York who had suffered abuse and torture so severe that he died. 

I’ve seen many cases of severe abuse that have led to the death of a child.  In fact, three decades ago I investigated more than 200 such cases during the course of a lengthy examination of the child welfare system.  But I’ve never seen one quite like the torture murder of Myls Dobson.

What struck me right from the get go was how convoluted the story is.  I had to read each article several times just to figure out who was what and where and when.  The description of the murderer confused me initially.  The killer was consistently referred to as the father’s new “girlfriend.”  “She” had a $3,200 per month apartment at the Ritz Plaza in Midtown Manhattan and was a “transgender performer,” whatever that means.  I could not find any mention of where “she” performed.  (Nor was there any explanation of how in the world “she” made enough money for such an apartment?)

Born Christopher King, “she” was known as Janaie Jones and reportedly used the stage name of Kryzie King.  Jones/King supposedly had a juvenile record but nothing as an adult, yet “she” admitted to starving the boy for more than two weeks, beating him with the buckle end of a belt all over his body, burning him with cigarettes and making him stand outside in his underwear for more than an hour when the temperature was 9 degrees.  “She” eventually called paramedics when the boy became unresponsive and they found him unconscious in a bathtub with extensive burns and bruises all over his body, including his genitals.  You don’t go from crime free to this kind of behavior unless you’ve already traveled many miles down the path of depravity. 

This is evil in its most sadistic manifestation.  You don’t get there overnight.  So why do the authors of so many articles dance around the issue of the abuser’s sex?  Jones/King is a man.  HE is not a she, no matter how much the PC police want it to be so.  This is a sick, twisted, evil man. 

He also is transgendered.  That does not mean that all transgendered men are sick, twisted and evil.  (Most of them that I’ve investigated are, but then that could be selection bias caused by the nature of my work.)  But this guy is among the worst.

What does transgendered even mean?  The American Psychological Association says: 

Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female or something else; gender expression refers to the way a person communicates gender identity to others through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice or body characteristics.

Until recently, transgendered people were considered to have a mental disorder, specifically “gender identity disorder.”  But with the publication of the DSM-5, the term has been changed to “gender dysphoria” in order to de-emphasize that it is a “disorder.”  Many in the psychological and psychiatric community do not consider it a disorder.  (Personally, I think those who hold that position are, themselves, disordered.) 

From the descriptions I’ve read about the injuries Myls suffered, I have to conclude that this is a case of child sexual sadism.  Not having access to all the investigation reports, I can’t be certain.   But it sure looks like it, especially since the boy’s genitals reportedly were bruised and burned.  In any event, what Jones/King did to the boy proves that he was, indeed, disordered, to say the least.

I won’t go into all the other chaos of this little boy’s life, you can read a few of the articles here, here, here, and here.   The whole story of his short time on this earth is sad beyond comprehension, and should be viewed as an indictment of the pathetic paper shuffling, buck passing system we’ve set up to make it seem we care about protecting children. 

If we are ever going to get a clear picture of what’s going wrong (and right, for that matter), let’s first stop with all the PC lingo and start reporting the facts.  Maybe then, when we can see how “disordered” our world is becoming, we might be able to do something about it. 

The torture murder of Myls Dobson by a transgendered child sexual sadist is outrageous.  But it is also outrageous to downplay the contribution played by the murderer’s lifestyle and HIS self-styled sexual orientation.