[Amore]

My god man are you a self-righteous ignorant prig

When I read this comment, I thought someone had typed it as a perfect response to you. Alas, no. I can see now, with your further explanation of at least where you were going with your Scarpia analogy, but I’m sorry, it is still inapt. It just doesn’t really work.

Did you read what I wrote? (At 72 & 142). What I said really doesn’t call for the response you gave to me at all.

Even were your comment directed at others who have been critical of the parents, this is a discussion forum. Given the facts of this case, this thread seems to me like a reasonable place to discuss parental responsibility.

[AndyJackson]

The positions you have taken in 72 and 142 are reasonable, and I am not opposed to a discussion about parental responsibility. What I am opposed to is the kind of moral ambivalence that I see in too many comments. These girls were not raped because they were smooching in lovers lane. They were raped because society turned loose a predator. Tosca is allegory for the essence of evil resulting from moral ambivalence.