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...express to Mr. & Mrs. Edmund de Caussin Jr. our sympathy in their tragic experience. Each time we read of the abduction and death of a child under similar circumstances, it seems that the moral flow of our present age cancels out the good that has been produced by our society. Mr. de Caussin places the blame correctly on the emphasis on sex with which we nurture our people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...well-intentioned as Mr. de Caussin's "explosive charge of thought" was, it is regrettable that his tragic plight lends emotional influence to his appeal. The ironical probability is that the man whose atrocity prompted such remarks would react with similar disgust to the sexual stimuli that Mr. de Caussin denounces. Let's open our eyes to the brand of pseudo-moralistic views that produces such warped personalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...days last week, little Mary de Caussin, 6, was ordered by her parents to stay in the family's yard in Detroit's Ecorse suburb. She was being punished for wandering away from home a few days before. Then, in midweek, her mother allowed the child her customary freedom. Mary skipped down the block to play with her friends. At dinnertime Mary's mother was frantic: Mary had disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Society | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...Ecorse police station Mary's father, Edmund de Caussin Jr., 33, a technical writer for the Ford Motor Co., paced the room, calm but increasingly haggard. By morning he had all but given up hope. But De Caussin, was forming an explosive charge of thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Society | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...saying, Edmund de Caussin went home to pray with his wife and neighbors. It was shortly thereafter, as he knelt saying his rosary, that word came. Six-year-old Mary had been found in a wooded lot a mile from home, raped, dreadfully mutilated and dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Society | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

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