Word: pedophilia
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...would be easy in these prurient days to think of Darger merely as a compulsive old pervert--a sort of Poussin of pedophilia. (One art-historian-cum-psychiatrist opined in the New York Times that "psychologically, Darger was undoubtedly a serial killer," a wildly irresponsible judgment, since practically nothing is known about his character, and in any case, he never harmed a fly; much the same--and on the same evidence--could be said about the authors of the Old Testament...
Though his case is unrelated to earlier ones, the national outcry was immediate. "The problem is, he's an official, and there are allegations of pedophilia. Those are the two most sensitive topics in Belgium right now," says political scientist Kris Deschouwer. Sensitive scarcely begins to describe it. The country is still shaken by the discovery last August of a child-kidnapping ring that preyed on young girls. A 12-year-old and a 14-year-old who had been abducted and raped were freed from a macabre underground dungeon in a home of the accused ringleader, Marc Dutroux, near...
...bodily integrity." They question the state's right to expose parolees to potentially dangerous side effects, and to prevent them from fathering children. They claim that determined ex-cons could reverse Depo-Provera's effects with other drugs--and that castration fails to treat the psychological roots of pedophilia. In fact, even Berlin, who favors the availability of voluntary chemical castration, opposes the California law. "There are many sex offenders for whom this is not going to be appropriate or useful," he says. "In effect, the legislators are practicing medicine without a license...
...rush to pass the giant telecommunications-reform bill before Christmas--suggests it may be a bigger problem than the one it aims to solve. For one thing, it does little about the kind of sexual material that has stirred up the strongest public anxieties (images of bestiality, pedophilia and the like). Such material is already flatly banned by federal statutes on obscenity and child pornography. The Justice Department has made it clear that it has all the laws it needs to police the Net for child molesters...
...vigorously prosecuted. Some 40 people in 14 states were arrested two years ago in Operation Longarm for exchanging kiddie porn online. And one of the leading characters in the Carnegie Mellon study--a former Rand McNally executive named Robert Copella, who left book publishing to make his fortune selling pedophilia on the networks--was extradited from Tijuana, and is now awaiting sentencing in a New Jersey jail...