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Pilger was a convicted sex offender who pleaded guilty to abusing three altar boys in his Western Kentucky parish in 1995 and received a mere five years probation.
Geoghan alone gathered over 130 accusations in his thirty-year career before finally being defrocked in 1998, and yet was only charged and convicted on one single count of indecent assault and battery of a ten-year-old boy. Pilger, after admitting to assaulting three boys, only received probation. It?...
While a retiring rapper seems like a particularly absurd joke ("Most rappers get up at 5 p.m. anyway," laughs Jay-Z) and the marketing tie-ins surrounding The Black Album would make George Lucas blush, Jay-Z is taking his departing moment seriously, in part because it was brought on...
Rather than enacting a total ban, the administration should adopt a more moderate safety policy by increasing the penalties for improper use. Students who build fires without screens or leave the flu closed could face probation or other rebuke from the administrative board. Individual students (and suites) could be put...
Farley and Sims were charged with first-degree murder, but an all-white jury convicted Sims on a lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter (to which Farley then pleaded guilty). A white judge, Wallace Gibson, suspended the boys' sentences and gave them two years' probation--scolding them for their "lapse...