Mark Foley and Patrick Kennedy - what will the NY Times say in four months?

Big difference. Alcoholics can be rehabilitated. They can stop drinking and have from then on a normal healthy life. ual predators will remain so for ever. 18 yrs ago I volunteered in a non-profit where we helped victims of violence and many of the children had been ually abused ranging from hared, molested and d by adults. Whether you are 9, 13 or 16, you are scarred for life. Pray to God you never have a child of yours go through that because if you do, you will know what is lost after that, is the equivalent of some kind of death. At least when you are hit by a car, you may go quick. Some of the children in the group were under such emotional pain they turned to drugs, tried to kill themselves, run away and threw their lives away, and the list goes on. Your comment about ual contact with children (and yes a 16 yr old is a child!) wheteher verbal or physical is very ignorant and a slap in the face to all children that have been abused in this way.