Another Pedophile May Go Free

This is a great post by Susan Campbell. Well worth the read:

http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-susan0227.artfeb27,0,3341474.column

Now, we have mandated that professionals who regularly come into contact with children must, by law, report suspected child abuse or neglect. But the rest of us — those not charged by law to pay attention — still don't want to acknowledge the evil in our midst. The pervert just might be the affable churchgoer quick to take on the thankless task of raising someone else's children, or the doctor who is extremely devoted to his patients, so much so that he'll take them on camping trips and keep them in his office at all hours. We still want to think that the pedophile doesn't look like us, that the pastor at the storefront church or the beloved doctor next door could never hurt a child because, well, they're the pastor or the doctor. But where children gather, so, too, will pedophiles. The quicker we acknowledge that, the sooner we all can heal.