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Local scandal, absolutely. Racial clashing within the schools, you can count on it. Stories of depravity and child molestation go there by default.Welcome, my friends, to the hornet's nest. Witness the buzzing frenzy around the epicenter and behold the angry volume of hatred and discontent.
Although I despise journalistic cliches as a rule, there's no better way to describe the gnashing of opinion that comes with ugly news.
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Michael Jackson, the Motown child singing sensation whose iconic dancing in adulthood electrified America's first music video generation and helped earn him the title King of Pop, died Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest in a Los Angeles home. He was 50.
Mr. Jackson, named in the Guinness World Records as the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time," with 13 Grammy Awards, 13 chart- topping solo singles and more than 750 million albums sold worldwide, was just a few weeks away from a series of London performances aimed at reviving his career after years of bizarre tabloid stories and an acquittal on child-molestation charges.
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I so appreciate that the Courier & Press picked up The Associated Press story on the AP/MTV youth survey.
There was a curious backdrop of other stories that wove in and out of the survey results: Garret Mathews' column on educating poor children; the rash of stories related to child molestation and the editorial addressing this; Bonnie Erbe's column on women delaying childbirth because of the high costs and slim availability of quality day care and preschool; and Charley Reese's column denying the role of poverty and racism in rising crime rates and placing the blame exclusively on bad parenting.
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BLOOMINGTON - Four women who say they were molested by convicted sex offender Ronald Preston may tell their stories in court if the Heyworth man goes on trial in another child molestation case.
Preston, 50, was arrested in September after a child younger than 13 years old told police that she had been sexually assaulted during the several years she was left at Preston's home for care.
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... guilty plea to one count of possessing child pornography in violation of 18U.S.C. § 2252(a)(4)... he had read and possibly downloaded stories about child molestation. On the Dell laptop, Detec...
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) - Michael Jackson's former maid testified Friday at his child molestation trial that she and other employees used a "media broker" to sell stories to tabloids, including one claiming inside knowledge of Jackson's sex life with ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley.
Adrian McManus, who earlier testified for the prosecution that she saw Jackson in compromising positions with boys, insisted under cross-examination that she was not out to get Jackson's money even when she and four other Neverland employees sued him for millions.
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... whether the potential link to child molestation is supported. . The issue is important to the oper... a correlation between arousal to audio stories of rape involving a distressed victim and likeliho...
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The sun may also rise
I saw a headline in the Nov. 23 paper which read: "Monthly rates for utilities may jump $3.27.
..." as a part of our daily "breaking news" stories. Expect what? You may ask. Another case of "allegeed" child abuse, sexual molestation, pedophilia - another child found dead. The list g...
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... in the wake of several national news stories of abducted and molested children is known as Ambe...
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Deliver Us From Evil is a documentary examining the Catholic Church and the roots of the pedophile priest scandal, focusing primarily on Father Oliver O'Grady, affectionately known as "Father Ollie." In 1998 Father Ollie was finally convicted of child molestation after committing more than two decades of abuse in numerous California parishes. The meat of the film is its in-depth conversations with Father Ollie himself, shown wandering free along the streets of Ireland. It's not even that he seems unrepentant, although his apologies to those whom, in his words, he "offended," seem woefully inadequate. It's the emotionally disconnected way he tells these stories-like they were the most mundane of events-that makes Father Ollie as chilling as any of screen history's villains. A (D.B.)
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