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...orphanages run by the church. Four of Ireland's 24 bishops offered their resignation. Since then, the Irish Primate, Cardinal Sean Brady, has admitted he met two young victims of a pedophile priest in 1975 and asked them to sign an oath of silence. The priest went on to molest children for almost two decades before being arrested and sent to prison. Brady is resisting calls for his resignation...
This certainly isn’t to imply that I believe Jackson did molest children, though he’s undeniably guilty of one charge: hubris. As MTV’s Kurt Loder argues, Jackson never should have allowed children to share his bed. I don’t find this act nearly as repulsive as Loder, who writes, “Any 45-year-old man who regularly goes to bed with pubescent boys… is appalling.” Have we really become so sterile and mechanical that any expression of affection between adults and children must...
...real consequences for the killers. Then 3,000 people were massacred on our own soil. As William McGurn has written in National Review, “If we have learned anything since September 11, it is that all Americans become vulnerable when we send the signal that others can molest our citizens abroad without repercussions...
...Readers longing for a respite from hard-news cover stories registered their gratitude for the guide to the new Star Wars movie. "Thank you for reporting on something that does not blow up civilians on a bus, drive tanks through refugee camps, molest children or plot to destroy America," wrote a relieved Virginian. "I'm content to focus on events that take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Agreed a New Yorker: "A little comic relief is frequently necessary for survival, when we consider the times we live in." And a North Carolina teen asked...
...find higher percentages of pedophiles who strike again, as high as 58% for those who refuse treatment. Such disparities highlight how uncertain the study of pedophilia is, but even the higher figure belies the popular notion that if a pedophile is allowed to go free, he will almost always molest again. "It's very easy to say, 'Throw away the key,'" says Berlin. "But many of these people are tortured by these temptations, and they are relieved that we can do something for them...