Young, Helpless, and On The Road
By Henry Schulte
The other day I came across a severely wounded fawn on Ballard Canyon Road in Solvang. My heart was breaking observing the tiny spotted animal in obvious pain and helplessness. I looked around for the mom, but the creature was all alone. I was on a bicycle and there wasn’t much I could do. I started to ride away, and accepted nature would take care of it. Only I couldn’t do it. I turned around. Maybe there was hope.
I called a friend in the Valley who has been dealing with wounded animals for many years. She said she would be right over. I said I’m going to pedal home and come back with my truck.
In the meantime, she managed to get the deer over the fence. She then realized the fawn was dying from multiple wounds. Likely coyotes. She called the CHP to come and put it down. I texted her that I was home; I’ll bring a gun and end the suffering. It was something I did not want to do but have done before. On my way back, she texted that the CHP had made it, and the little thing finally found peace. I cried. I know it’s nature and it happens every day, but it was seeing the powerless animal staggering to stay on its feet in pain, all alone, and with no idea of what was going on wrenched my emotions.
We see and hear about death everyday but when it affects the helpless and the young it has a much greater impact.
When I heard the recent horrific story of sexual child abuse in a storm shelter in Alabama, I wanted to vomit. Children ranging in age from 3 to 15 being abused by multiple people “on a nightly basis” made me rage in anger. Tied to posts. How depraved and beyond sick do you have to be?
There was another recent case discovered in Florida where nine kids were being abused, by their parents! Spraying their faces with vinegar and forced to sleep under plywood.
It’s like the tiny fawn. Those kids didn’t know what was going on and they were at the mercy of the very people who were supposed to be protecting them.
It’s happening every day all around the world. It’s been happening since time began.
It’s unfathomable in the year 2025 that we still have such terror. I don’t even like placing myself in the child’s position because it’s like living a real-life horror movie. I can’t begin to imagine what was going through their little minds.
There was also the recent arrest of a Delta pilot. He’s facing multiple felony charges for sexual abuse of a minor. He and an alleged accomplice, the actual mother of the victim, are facing 24 counts of horrific acts involving a child under ten.
What the hell is going on?
It’s been reported many times how, because of the open border of the last four years, government authorities have lost track of over 300,000 migrant children. Why does that not warrant non-stop attention? The Democrats and media can’t do it because, well, we know why: it would be an admission of guilt for not calling out those responsible. It’s easier to ignore the gravity of it all. Some of those migrant kids were recently found at a pot farm in Carpinteria. More was made of the ICE raid and attacking federal agents for doing their job than about the children that were being exploited and rescued. A thank you would have been nice instead of tossing rocks lathered with hate.
Efforts to Remove ICE, not Criminals
Human trafficking is a “crime of exploitation,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Traffickers profit off their victims by forcing them to engage in sex acts or do labor. “With an estimated 27.6 million victims worldwide at any given time, human traffickers prey on people of all ages, backgrounds, and nationalities, exploiting them for their own profit,” officials report.
More attention is focused on looking for ways to stop the Trump administration from deporting illegal criminals, many of whom are involved and directly responsible for child abuse and human trafficking. The Mexican cartels became billionaires over it. Lawsuits are flying as Democrats are focused on ways to force ICE and other law enforcement agencies to remove their masks when doing their jobs.
Recently a group of Santa Barbara politicians signed a letter to increase the hysteria and embellish ICE raids as if hell had been unleashed on immigrants. They exaggerate numerous points because no one will call them out on it. They’re begging Santa Barbara Sheriff Bill Brown to do something.
Not get rid of criminals but to keep them.
If it were not for Joe Biden’s failures, this wouldn’t even be a discussion. Place the blame where it belongs. Let’s see these “defenders of democracy” work for all their constituents for a change. Put their money where their face is and get rid of the lawbreakers; and while they’re at it expose their own faces to the cartels and gang members. Then go home and question whether they have put themselves and their families in danger.
Since the Left is so against guns, see how one can fend off heavily armed gang bangers using a kitchen knife and a spoon.
It's easy to sit on a pedestal, point fingers, and make judgements and then place the lives of good people trying to protect even those cowardly politicians and their own children from the menace that threatens all our safety.
Get off that “high horse” and get dirty. Help law enforcement go after all these devils who abuse and traffic kids, domestic or foreign. Be part of the solution and not always the stupid problem.
Like that fawn, we can’t save them all, but we can’t save any if we keep fighting with each other.
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The abuse of children is not just being done by sex traffickers, underage exploiting employers or backwoods psychopathic parents. It's being done by medical professionals who tell children they have been born in the wrong body, that they are trans and need to be on hormones and surgical therapies. Convincing a young girl she needs a mastectomy to become the boy she really should be is, in my book, as evil as it gets.
Henry, thank you for this powerful piece. You’re absolutely right — while ordinary people step up to relieve suffering, our so-called leaders do everything possible to make things worse. Local Democrats, especially “Silent Sal” Salud Carbajal, have perfected the art of looking the other way. His grotesque anti-ICE antics put politics above protecting children.
Instead of standing with law enforcement rescuing trafficked kids — like those found right here in Carpinteria — Carbajal and his allies demonize ICE, sue to block enforcement, and whip up hysteria about raids. They make heroes out of criminals and villains out of the people trying to keep us safe.
This isn’t compassion, it’s willful negligence. And it’s why the cartels and traffickers flourish while children — like that wounded fawn you described — are left helpless, broken, and abandoned.