Doesn't surprise me. A lot of kids who are molested turn out to be molesters themselves. That doesn't excuse it, of course, just saying I'm not shocked at all.
In the 90s, debate boards, there had been a story of a male pedophile. His prey? Boys. The feminists from Canada and US were going on ad nauseum in their pepertual alternating shrieking and swoon fashion, until I pointed out that the older male was homosexual. These women couldn't get it. Their minds were so wrapped around the "man evil-woman good" rhubarb. Since the mid-90s, I've interviewed many grown men who had such an experience in their youth. It didn't lead them to molest anyone. These males acknowledged that it had been "consensual" only in that their testosterone was raging and an adult male "neatly" seduced them. From a parental point of view, yes, this was predatory behavior from an adult male, taking advantage of the high, usually not well controlled, but learning to control, urges in young men. The men I interviewed did not feel gay, latently gay, or abused. These men I chose to interview because of their very strong views on sexual predators, as in "anti-sexual predator". These men learned from their early experiences.
The Foley situation makes me want to ask the very same question I asked in the mid-90s:
Is sex on a cyberboard "actual sex"? I posed this question on a conservative board. Do words equal rape?
These questions, I learned, can be real vote splitters.
However, the Democrats who love AOL logs of these alleged IMS are SO AGAINST THE PATRIOT ACT
They'll believe an IM log is NOT an invasion of privacy, but Using the PATRIOT ACT to listen in on Terrorists IS an invasion of privacy.
I do believe the tail on the dog is wagging, Big Time.