'Save Our Children' demonstration staged
Butler was part of a nationwide effort over the weekend to bring attention to child sexual abuse and human trafficking.
About a dozen demonstrators gathered Sunday for a “Save Our Children” rally at Diamond Park on South Main Street in front of the Butler County Courthouse.
Participants — adults and children — holding signs that read “Why isn't pedophilia a capital offense” and “Save don't sell us” among others were met with the sounds of honking horns and occasional waves from passing motorists.
“We are trying to open eyes and make people aware,” said Danielle Lindo of Hilliards, one of the organizers. “We want to make people awake to what is happening and to get the point across that pedophilia is not OK. It's not normal.”
It's a crime, she said, that happens every day.
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