The story of David Holthous, as heard in the podcast, raises serious questions on rising juvenile delinquency in the United States. The psychological impact that juvenile victims face during their innocent childhood days leads to prolonging after effects for the rest of their lives. The ‘Act One’ story is one such incident out of thousands that happen in the US (thisamericanlife.org, 2011). However, there are many theories directly related to such incidents. Physical abuse, Child neglect, Bullying, Pedophile and Sexual abuse are more common events that have become a day to day activity. There are tough laws in store to restrict these crimes, but still it’s become non-stop. The juvenile delinquency act involves many childcare activities that include rehabilitation for juvenile criminals. However, the most challenging aspect is to bring back the juvenile victims to normalcy. It is evident that one in every four girls or one in every six boys becomes victims of juvenile delinquency before they turn to 18 years of age. The hard-hitting fact is mental trauma leads many victims to commit suicides rather than expose the crimes. These are due to death threats from the criminals to avoid exposure, threats of sexual abuse using political background and acts of blackmailing. Hence, the theory of exposing the crimes by victims never remains an easy task though it can be easily said that timely exposure would reduce the acts (Fagan, Jeffrey. 1987).
