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My mother divorced my father when I was 2 and she met my stepfather, who was a police officer in Manhattan Beach. They had five children after me. In addition, my stepfather has three older children. In the combined family, I'm the only one of the nine children he didn't father. I always remember wanting him to love me. I was always trying excessively hard to please him. I would do anything for him. My stepbrothers and stepsisters and a half-brother and half-sister went to McMartin. So did I. I only remember being happy there. I never had any bad...

Apparently, a new child molester is roaming the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, New York -- me! On January 11, a girl of 10 or 11 years of age walking on the other side of the street kept nervously looking over her shoulder at me. When I sought to comfort her with a kindly smile, she became even more alarmed. At the PTA meeting that night at my son's school, a parent insisted to me, "If a child feels intimidated, then an incident occurred." That means that I am guilty of committing an "incident." Salem witch trials, here we go again!...

Man Given Parole in Mass. Day Care CaseOct 17, 8:38 PM (ET)By JENNIFER PETERBOSTON (AP) - A man convicted of raping eight youngsters in one of the nation's most lurid - and bitterly disputed - child-molestation cases has been granted parole and could go free next spring after 17 years in prison. Gerald "Tooky" Amirault was found guilty in 1986 of abusing children at his family's suburban day-care center and was sentenced to 30 to 40 years in prison. His mother and sister were convicted in a separate trial. The Amiraults argued that they were victims of sex abuse...