Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

February 18, 2008

The enrichment of government power increases the vulnerability of innocent. This is illustrated by an unfolding scandal in Florida.

Al Zimmerman, a 41-year-old former television news reporter, was the public spokesman for the Florida Department of Child and Family Services. He was arrested in early February and arraigned on eight charges of sexually exploiting a child.

Zimmerman allegedly paid two young teenage boys, both below the age of consent, to pose for sexually explicit photos. One of them was in a foster home as a ward of the child protection agency. Zimmerman planned to peddle his porn to buyers overseas.

There is evidence that several other boys might have been lured into such behavior. It?s difficult to know the extent of the scandal, because a second child welfare employee, Michael Hernandez, removed critical evidence from Zimmerman?s government-issued computer. Zimmerman and Hernandez were involved in a homosexual relationship.

How many other predators have insinuated themselves into the child welfare bureaucracy?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.