We already knew that definitely pervy, probable billionaire Jeffrey Epstein got unusually lenient charges and sentencing for his sexual exploitation and abuse of young girls in Florida. But how do such things work?
With the jailing of one man and four women, the sickening case of a child molestation ring, including at a UK childcare center, comes to a close. It's a disturbing confluence of issues including female sex offenders and the Internet.
It's come out that two East Sussex vicars were assigned parishes after superiors learned they'd been abusing children. One, who died in '06, was convicted of abusing a boy; another was jailed for abusing two in the 70s and 80s.
Newsweek's Lisa Miller on the child abuse scandal currently embroiling the Catholic Church:
The first of a dozen FDLS members accused of the sexual abuse will go on trial today. Raymond Jessop faces up to 20 years for his "marriage" to an underage girl. [MSNBC]
I've noticed that, in this very popular show, Chris Hansen always manages to catch abusers during their very first attempts at trying to have sex with minors - "first" that is, according to the predators.
