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Old Jun 28, 2010, 12:23 PM
AkAngel AkAngel is offline
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Originally Posted by pegasus View Post
I would have thought pretty much everyone would agree with me in saying that paedophiles are evil pachyderm. Unless you happened to be a paedophile...
Often, visiting my wife in prison, I run into a grandmother who is visiting her granddaughter at the same time. Her granddaughter was 23 when she went to prison for a twelve years sentence; she is epileptic and has an IQ of 63. She usually spends the two hours with grandma coloring. The girl is in prison for sex with a minor - he was sixteen, average intelligence and a member of the football team. She was a virgin until that day. Who do you think took advantage of whom? Nevertheless, the girl is a sex offender and listed as a pedophile.

Yes, yes, I know you weren't talking about this case and that this case is nothing like the one you were trying to describe but where do you draw the line? Is this case of pedophilia so obviously a miscarriage of justice that the legal title of pedophile is something you are willing to overlook now that you've heard a paragraph of her story? Either way, many would.

I also remember the story you were trying to recall, though I only know the details as presented by the media - an entity designed and which thrives on making things as dramatic as possible. I don't know his story either.