Cypress Knee
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Yesterday my local paper published a short article. A 53 year old male, that they identified specifically by name and job, was accused of sexual abusing a child back in 1984. Doing the math, this person would be a 37 year old female today.
I don't know anything about this except what the paper posted. My own opinion is that a proven pedophile should go to the chair tomorrow. Hello Old Sparky, can't keep a good man down!
But at this point I don't think that the guy's name, address, occupation, and picture in the paper should be posted unless the editor certainly believes that there is enough evidence for a grand jury to reach an indictment.
I think that I think this way because long ago I was a camp counselor at Kiwanis and Boy Scout camps. I was late high school, early college, been through the Boy Scout program and could teach woodcarving, archery, canoeing, first aid, fire building, etc.
About the worst thing we (counselors) ever did was "float" kids out of their tent, which meant we moved a sleeping kid on a cot out of a tent and left him under the trees for the rest of the night. And we took some kids "snipe hunting". Plus, back then, I had quite a repertoire of Ghost stories applicable to the area.
But what if somebody shows up an claims that I came into their tent and engaged in illicit activities with them forty years ago? My only defense is I didn't do that. I floated kids, I told ghost stories, I built great big campfires that seared eyelashes off of OA nominees, but I never engaged in illicit sexual activity with campers.
So what do you do? My tent mate from forty years ago surely can't remember where I may have been at any given point in time, after all, he was out floating kids and catching snakes and looking at constellations during astronomy class too. So no alibi there.
Well, just .o2 tonight.
CK
I don't know anything about this except what the paper posted. My own opinion is that a proven pedophile should go to the chair tomorrow. Hello Old Sparky, can't keep a good man down!
But at this point I don't think that the guy's name, address, occupation, and picture in the paper should be posted unless the editor certainly believes that there is enough evidence for a grand jury to reach an indictment.
I think that I think this way because long ago I was a camp counselor at Kiwanis and Boy Scout camps. I was late high school, early college, been through the Boy Scout program and could teach woodcarving, archery, canoeing, first aid, fire building, etc.
About the worst thing we (counselors) ever did was "float" kids out of their tent, which meant we moved a sleeping kid on a cot out of a tent and left him under the trees for the rest of the night. And we took some kids "snipe hunting". Plus, back then, I had quite a repertoire of Ghost stories applicable to the area.
But what if somebody shows up an claims that I came into their tent and engaged in illicit activities with them forty years ago? My only defense is I didn't do that. I floated kids, I told ghost stories, I built great big campfires that seared eyelashes off of OA nominees, but I never engaged in illicit sexual activity with campers.
So what do you do? My tent mate from forty years ago surely can't remember where I may have been at any given point in time, after all, he was out floating kids and catching snakes and looking at constellations during astronomy class too. So no alibi there.
Well, just .o2 tonight.
CK