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DAYTON — A woman accused of celebrating her 55th birthday by having sex with a 12-year-old boy pleaded guilty to one count of gross sexual imposition of a person under age 13 on Friday, Oct. 23. Gloria J. Murphy, of 5440 Rawlings Drive, appeared before Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Katherine Huffman, who set sentencing for Dec. 2. The charge is a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. Gloria J. Murphy, who uses a walker and an oxygen tube, appeared frail.

What's the deal with all the dead scientists?

* The University of Minnesota is publishing a book by a Judith Levine that puts forth that not all sexual contact between an adult and a child is necessarily bad. * Professor Harris Mirkin of the University of Missouri wrote an article for the Journal of Homosexuality that suggests the United Sates might consider adopting the liberal attitudes of Denmark in thinking about child sex. * The general counsel of the American Council on Education, Sheldon Steinbach, said this about Mirkin: "The appropriate place to debate the legitimacy of a professor's thought is the marketplace of ideas. Today's heresy often...