No I am not missing the point. I happen to know several men who were molested at age 15 and 16 by a prominent figure...Predators know how to pick kids who are not very sophisticated... they go for the boys who maybe have parents who are divorced, who need affirmation and approval and attention..Do you know any 16 year old boys ? They are not grown men... Predators like Mark Foley "groom" their prey... They don't start out coming on to them. It starts out with attention, then presents, favors... The boy ( who usually is unsure of himself, and from a troubled family and maybe doesn't have a father) is hooked.. By the time the predator moves in for the kill, the boy trusts the predator. They know on one level that something is wrong, but on another level, they're confused because the guy was their friend. This is how people like child psychiatrists, priests, high school football coaches.. 16 is not a grown men.
Everybody should go to the website of www.malesurvivor.org and read the discussion board. Plenty of men there who were molested as teenagers are talking about this scandal. If you haven't been molested, you really can't imagine what it's like. Go educate yourself on the MO's of molesters,please !
And then you add in that Foley was a powerful political figure
That describes an experience I had when I was 17, and working at an after-school office job. A manager there, in his 50's, was very friendly to me, invited me to hang out at his place for dinner and drinks. We would hang out and talk. It took a few weeks for me to figure out where he was going with this, and I stopped having any non-business contact with him