Turner will have to endure this humiliating protest and live with the shame forever, even if the actual sign-holding peters out in a few weeks.

I think it’s wonderfully optimistic that you think he’ll feel shame over this.

As long as the protestors don’t resort to violent action or harass his family and friends, I think this is an appropriate form of expressing anger about an obvious injustice. In lieu of a prison sentence, Turner will have to endure this humiliating protest and live with the shame forever, even if the actual…

This kinda feels like this crossing the line. What the woman did was wrong, ironic, kinda funny, but she didn’t harm anyone, and I thought her getting fired in the first place was too much.

Well a person of interest could be a witness or someone else that is suspected to have knowledge of the crime or those involved in it. So it’s a bit misleading to not call the suspect a suspect regardless of whether the are also a person of interest.

Yeah, I really think that it goes against common sense that it would be easier to rehabilitate a pedophile than say, a drug dealer or a robber. Not that we should just give up on rehabilitating pedophiles, but to say they reoffend less when their behavior stems from a sexual compulsion?

Are they really less likely to reoffend? Or just less likely to get caught a second time? How many offenses will they commit before they get caught the first time?

Yeah, I do wish at least a mention in that other article about WHY that might be. Rarely reported, rarely prosecuted, rarely convicted, rarely appropriately sentenced.

Mandated reporter here...it never hurts to report if you have genuine concerns. Let the authorities sort it out. You never know if your report will be the 3rd, or the 4th, or whichever one will be the one that triggers action (sadly, sometimes it takes multiple reports, especially in 'mild' situations)!

It's so dang rough trying to figure out situations like this. Used to live next door to a somewhat similar situation, with three women, two kids, and a bunch of dogs. The house was a shithole, the kids barely went to school if ever, they were always yelling. We went back and forth about whether to report it to anyone…

How many dead dogs per classroom these days?

You think the ratio of teachers/aides to students should be better than 1/4? That’s a true fantasy and, frankly, completely unnecessary. 1/20 would be nice though.

There are unfortunately a lot of places like Victorville around Southern California, people who live on the edges of everything because they can’t afford anything else and have nowhere else to go. San Bernardino County is the largest county in the entire country—larger than some states—and there’s only so much the…

I’m really happy that the kids have been taken away from these awful shit heaps but I’m sad that this will be ignored by our government because why try to combat the conditions that allow for this to exist. Nah just scatter the children into an overburdened system and bring more bodies to the prison money machine…

Yup. Victorville is where the really poor Palmdale people end up. Grim.

Yeah, some of those inland California places are such wastelands. Victorville, Barstow...I went through a part of Stockton that was like another world...giant potholes, broken curbs, people standing around aimless and glassy-eyed, staring, filthy...

Rural Southern California is scary. And I’m from rural Appalachia so that’s saying something.

Victorville? STORY CHECKS OUT.

Victorville is a shithole. Was there for work last week and had to cut short filling my gas tank because I felt my personal safety was at risk at the station. It’s in the high desert where there’s lots of land and space to do whatever the fuck you want without people knowing. I know situations like this exist but it…