Word: mcquay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down before we hit a technological iceberg. Are there enough lifeboats for a financial Titanic? What happens when there is a weeklong electrical-power failure? Will victims of mother nature be left to sink because they could not make a simple electronic transaction to buy bread and milk? HEATHER MCQUAY Pasadena...
What changed was the perception of sex offenders as compulsive recidivists. For years, Larry Don McQuay begged the state of Texas to castrate him, saying he had molested some 200 children and would resume when released from prison. Experts like Fred Berlin, founder of the Sexual Disorders Clinic at Johns Hopkins University, noted that molesters may have a recidivism rate as high...
Berlin cites domestic and European studies in which the rate fell below 15% when participants were chemically castrated. Such figures attracted California assemblyman Bill Hoge, who, dismayed when McQuay's plea was denied, introduced the California bill. Hoge talks of prevention, not punishment. "We're trying to stop the child molester from striking again, period," he says...