Boy abused for 4 years: Where were his parents?

There is a boy in Licking County who was abused, it is charged, more than 200 times over a period of four years, beginning when he was 10.

A Plain City man, David Arthur Meadows, has been charged, according to The Advocate's news report.

Likely he'll get jail time. But just as likely, the cooperators, the other perpetrators, will escape blame or punishment.

Society and the law should ask: How could even one such incidence occur without the knowledge and intervention of this boy's parents or guardian?

They are a root cause of all such recurring incidents. Without parents, guardians, relatives, neighbors who care, there is just a kid by himself against a pervert.

How can these "parents" not be held legally - not just morally - guilty of rape and perversion?