Tempting Innocence, oil on linen canvas 48"X48" $25,000.00

I once worked at the New Hampshire State Hospital Forensic Unit (where they housed the criminally insane)

There I spent time with quite a few interesting individuals. One of them was a sex-offender who was abused repeatedly at a very young age. To him molesting children was the norm, that is what he perpetuated. Ironically, decades later while working as a parole officer, I supervised this individual when he was released into the community. Sure enough, after a short period of time he tried to molest an 11 year old in a parking lot and I had to arrest him and return him to the Forensic Unit (now located inside the state prison). I also met an ex-police officer. He was there for murdering his family. He told me that when he was a child, his stepfather enticed him with an apple to perform fellatio. They inspired me to do this painting.

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