For many, childhood is a wonderful experience. It’s a time in a person’s life filled with wonder and excitement. But tragically, for some, being a child can be a living nightmare.

For example, just recently, an elementary school teacher caught a student searching for porn on one of the school’s iPads. When she asked what she was doing, the child’s response shocked her. She explained that she was trying to figure out what her relative was repeatedly doing to her at night. Horrified, the teacher notified authorities. They then immediately arrested the alleged abuser.

According to reports, a Texas teacher at Elm Creek Elementary caught a 9-year-old girl using a school-issued iPad to search for pornography. The teacher confronted her and demanded an explanation. Innocently, she explained that she was trying to learn more about what her relative was doing to her “all the time at night,” which, she complained, kept her from getting enough sleep. This alarmed the teacher, who subsequently called 911.

The little girl led investigators to Anthony Garay, a 31-year-old San Antonio resident. She claimed he had been molesting her and her sister at their home for at least a year. Police officers took him into custody and charged him with continuous sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony. He’s currently being held in the Bexar County Jail on a $75,000 bond.

What’s worse, Garay isn’t the only predator in his family. His father, Placido Garay, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault against a minor in 2008. He reportedly molested two of his younger relatives.

Both victims, at the time, were roughly the same age as the girls his son abused. However, he didn’t go straight to jail, and as a result, he disappeared before his sentence began. Friends and relatives close to Placido believe he’s spent the last decade hiding somewhere in Mexico.

Given his father’s behavior, the victim’s family is trying to get the judge to either raise Garay’s bail or completely deny it. They claim he’s a flight risk and argue that if he’s let out of jail, he’ll likely escape to Mexico to be with his father.

Raquel Seeman, one of the victim’s relatives, argued, “if you let Anthony go, he’ll go to Mexico so he and his dad can go molest girls over there.” She told reporters that the assault devastated the entire family. “I trusted him with the most valuable parts of me,” she explained, noting, “and it broke us.”

She also compared Garay’s victims to the girls his father harmed. “[My relatives] were probably the same age as those girls [at the time of their abuse], she pointed out, adding “my heart breaks for them.” The two girls previously molested by the father are now in their 20s and trying to move on. Unfortunately, this incident makes the healing process much more difficult. “It seemed like were back at square one,” noted Seeman, with tears in her eyes.

Molesting children is undeniably one of the most immoral things a person can do. Children are the most helpless and vulnerable in society. They look up to adults for guidance and protection. Taking advantage of them is utterly reprehensible. Those found guilty should receive the harshest sentences possible. We cannot tolerate this type of conduct in our society.

Despite the fact that the sexual abuse of minors is obviously immoral, many on the left unsurprisingly try to defend it. Some claim it’s a mental disorder. Others insist that it’s a sexual orientation. Either way, they think pedophiles should be protected. The liberals who believe this seem to care more about pedophiles than they do children. They want to make it easy to be a child molester.

Conservatives need do everything possible to prevent the far-left from successfully endangering children. This means resisting their attempt to normalize abusing minors and pushing for harsher punishments against those who prey on children. The children in our country depend on us to keep them safe. We must not let them down.