Oh yeah. Gay people would be a bad influence! At least this guy was molesting a female child like a fine upstanding heterosexual. (Vomits).

Do you think they’d be standing by him so firmly if the victim was a boy?

If the young lady is reading this, I hope that you find some sort of solace and hope in this tough time. Your town stinks a lot right now, and I would love to hear that they get their crap figured out.

Meh. My aunt still refers to my long term sexual abuse as a child as “shenanigans” pulled by my ex-stepfather. The kicker? She was a social worker for DCS (in another county) for years. It defies logic but some people can just not acknowledge it happens in their family or community.

No joke. I’m a family law attorney, and the number of domestic violence victims I’ve represented where the husband is in the military is astounding. And they are ALWAYS the ones who show up in uniform.

I’ve said this before and got like, 0 likes (not that I do it for the likes, but it must mean no one agrees with me!). But, as an adult female, I do browse porn and it troubles me that even if you keep it “safe” within your search so as not to see anything disgusting, a very common narrative is “teen destroyed”, “teen…

Of course he’s a churchgoing, God-fearing man.

They tell themselves he was coerced, or confessed from sheer exhaustion or desperation. The human capacity for denial and re-entrenchment in the face of contradictory evidence is astonishing.

Although not nearly as terrible as what happened to this young woman, this entire situation SO reminds me of when myself and a few other girls spoke out against a high school teacher who was doing some very inappropriate things to a lot of the girls in his classes. He’d been a teacher at the school for 25+ years, a…

It somehow feels even more tragic that she was believed by:

Exactly: what is she GAINING through this? The inability to find housing Public shunning and her entire life put under a microscope? Great, sign me up! Holy shit. And yeah, I’m sure he was a great community volunteer; that’s how you get access to the vulnerable. This isn’t news to anyone with half a brain.

“Paden’s adult son, Anthony, has also been charged with sodomizing the victim. His case is currently pending.”

Town at large replies “but who will bring that famous potater salad to our bbqs now! What’s a little child rape when there’s that potater salad!”

Dear Entire Town of Dearborn, Kansas,

Gisele Bundchen, Alexis Bledel, pretty much anyone on Latin American television. There are plenty of black, white, indigenous, asian and multiracial lations. Here read this and educate yourself for God’s sake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_His… .

Sexuality and gender have nothing to do with each other. She make like girls, she may like boys. She may be very asexual. Sex is usually the LAST thing on a trans persons mind. If she’s on hormones and probably testosterone blockers for any length of time, there won’t be any erections anywhere. She’s not looking for a…

Plus, it’s pretty much impossible to get gender reassignment surgery when you’re under 18. So using that as a goalpost is completely unfair.

“Smooth like a boiled carrot” will haunt me....thanks, John Oliver.

No, not the school nurse; don’t be silly. We should send all children of locker room attending years to Mike Huckabee. After an extensive verbal and physical exam, he can determine who should be allowed into each locker room, and who should have to skip gym class and go to chapel instead to ask God for better biology.…

This is such a slippery slope...sure, now it’s just transgender students who want to be treated like actual human beings, but pretty soon we’re going to have to treat everyone like they are real people deserving of respect, and then where will we be as a nation?

I think the opponents of this sort of thing are forgetting exactly how damn hard we all tried to be invisible in locker rooms. Body anxiety, not wanting to get caught looking at somebody else while they’re changing, the fact that - as far as I know of - kids generally aren’t getting butt-ass naked in locker rooms…