Pedophiles. That’s the subject of Prof. Taylor’s Crime Stories column, tendered for publication in the Gainesville Times, November 22, 1988. (*Note: Dad apparently took the week off November 15, 1988. The NE Georgia section did not contain his column that week. (Yes, I looked throughout the entire edition). Anyway, back to a subject I generally avoid unless stoning someone in my mind for it.
My father mentioned a deluge of incidences around the time of publication and, after some Googling, yep… sickos aplenty. More on this below the column.
For the first time, my father prevented me from running an internet search on something. I’m not about to go on some internet data record for researching the PIE. Nope! You want that on your search record, go right ahead. Seems I’m always reading or hearing of someone’s Google search history after a crime was committed, and the victim’s behavior was also scrutinized as part of a pretrial discovery. Anyway, maybe somewhat hypocritical to research incidences Prof. Taylor referenced at the top of his column. Indeed, there were many. Here are but a few…
Nov. 6, 1988 – Lawrenceville Father of Six Convicted of Molesting Two Daughters
Summer 1988 – Blurred Lines at Rome Boarding School
Nov. 10, 1988 – Three Pentecostal Ministers
June 12, 1988 – Seattle Priest
And there would be many cases involving the Catholic Church, Boy Scouts and other trusted, sacrosanct organizations for many years to come.
The picture at the top is from a recently-solved 1988 cold case child murder in Georgia. Read about it HERE.
Next week has to do with a one “Hangin'” Judge Parker.
(You see were my father’s head was after writing about pedophiles…)
