Michelle Malkin has a new column out today about the sexual assault of a 16-year-old developmentally disabled girl at Mifflin High School in Columbus, Ohio. The column can be found here.

Politicians and government officials are always touting some new plan - expanded school lunches, 'free' daycare, universal healthcare, regulation of the foods we can eat, gun control, etc. - with the usual refrain we have to do it "for the children."

But here you have a situation where a young girl needed the protection of adults most, and they're running for cover. We've had several cases recently of young children being molested and murdered by sexual predators who served a couple of years after a prior offense. There's lots of talk out there about caring for kids, doing more for kids, etc., when they want to raise your taxes and implement new social programs, but where are all the adults when these kids really need them? And what can we say about a culture that produced the animals, high school students, who perpetrated the assault, and the other kids who watched and did nothing?

Malkin has additional comments about the case here.