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...string of incidents and revelations over the next few years damaged the club’s reputation further. A woman alleged she was raped by a Harvard student at the club in 1986, though the district attorney’s office dropped the complaint due to lack of evidence. An assault-and-battery was reported to Harvard police in 1987, Cambridge police arrested three men involved in a brawl outside the entrance to the club in 1989 and there were various complaints about naked men standing in the windows in the fall of 1990. The event that got the most...
...always treated as victims. Even in states where the age of consent is 18, prosecutors rarely go after, say, a 23-year-old for sleeping with a 17-year-old. Given that up to half of teens say they have had sex while a minor, "millions of statutory-rape cases occur every day," says Michelle Oberman, a DePaul University rape-law specialist...
...markets, bilking people out of cash, food and other donations. And that's just the beginning of Thailand's rogue monk problem. In recent years, real monks have been caught embezzling, selling and using drugs, seducing parishioners and patronizing prostitutes. A few have even been found guilty of rape and murder...
...saying I’m not dealing with final clubs, I’m not dealing with date rape, it means Harry Lewis’ office is completely responsible for that,” Faust said...
...keep the faith through all this, I find myself asking: Why? Why can these men not get the enormity of what has happened? The best I can come up with is that they are well-intentioned men who somehow cannot see that what they have enabled is systematic child rape. They resist deep change by claiming that celibacy isn't the issue. But the hierarchy's cover-up of this evil surely has something to do with celibacy. Today's church leaders see sex primarily as an act, fraught with moral danger, not as a relationship, imbued with moral good...