[Conservative til I die]

He's equating horrific abuse with petty larcency. Disgusting.

Wow, you really missed the point.

He's not equating child abuse to theivery. He's saying that everywhere you go, in any institution, there are bad apples, but that doesn't mean the whole bunch is spoiled.

It's a really simple point, and I don't see how you could have missed it.

Substitute "drug abusers" or "wife beaters" or "muderers" for thieves and it's the same point.

[Starboard]

I'm well aware of the "few bad apples" line and believe he was using that angle to downplay the severity of the problem. You don't fix a serious problem by tossing around analogies to make it sound benign, you recognize it and deal with it forthrighly.

Is that simple enough for you?