WHOA! .... Bill Conlin resigns amid child molestation investigation

What have you done in this business, if you are in this business, to merit the notoriety that Conlin has achieved in his career? I'm not trying to out you or anything but it's obvious you have no idea the impact or the talent this guy had.
If you're looking to pick a fight, do it somewhere else, please. I don't think this is the thread for it.

 

My thoughts exactly.
Also, is it possible that Conlin has blocked these incidents, if true, from his memory? Just throwing it out there. Stranger things have been said.

 

Few stranger.

 

Only by you.

 

That's why he has the condo in DR. So he can travel, and thereby ease the burdens of remembrance.

 

Yes...


No it's not posssible.. Not if he wrote a 10-page apology letter to one the victims (according to the story) after being confronted.

I'll bet Conlin was abused himself. But that's no excuse.

As I posted earlier; I'll bet the farm more victims (post-1996) come forward. Fuckos like this don't quit.

 

Suprised his "condo" is in the DR and not southeast Asia, like Thailand.

 

If you know anything about psychology, and I'm not about to go psych 101 on you, you would know that it's not a strange thought. I've done more than my share of abuse stories over the years to know that abusers can also shut out periods of their lives when things occurred.

 

It's true that, back in that era, adults simply didn't talk about this problem much, and it certainly wasn't discussed in a public forum.

Not that it shouldn't have been, but it was just the way things were.

That said, however, much of the problem with cases involving young children, especially from a long time ago, is determining the truth of the matter -- the actual extent of abuse, the ages of kids, and veracity of their memories.

Just because a kid says it, should it always be trusted, and should guilt automatically be assumed? No matter what?

I'm just asking.

Because this actually happened to me once, when I was about eight or nine, with an older uncle on my mother's side. It wasn't a constant abuse. I'd been sitting next to him, showing and talking to him about some books on a nearby bookshelf that were of interest to me at the time. Suddenly the man's fingers were in an inappropriate place, kind of messaging. I was immediately uncomfortable and remember being surprised and wondering what he was doing. Once I realized he wasn't stopping on his own, I simply got up and left the room, however, and that was all there was to it, so I was lucky in comparison to some kids.

It stayed with me, however (as you can probably tell), and after the man's visit had ended and he'd left our house a few days later, I remember telling my mother about what happened.

Her eyes widened, she sucked in a shocked breath, and then had exactly the reaction as these other adults: "Don't you ever say anything to anybody, especially Grandma (it was her brother) about this."

She could tell I was being serious and I think she believed me, but I don't know if anything else WAS ever said about it, between my mom and her uncle, or not, and I have no idea if he did that sort of thing all the time, or not. As it happened, I never saw the man again, though. So, again, I was lucky, I guess.

While I remember this incident, clearly, even to this day, I'm not certain I'm somebody who you could say was scarred for life by it, and I'm not sure the guy, or my mother, would have deserved to be shot over it.

Furthermore, if I had been much younger than I was, I'm not sure I would have remembered it at all. Unless you're the person involved, I'm not sure it's possible to know for sure about these things, and many of the responses we give about how bad, horrible and perverted this is (of course it is) are simply the politically correct ones, the ones I'm not absolutely certain that somebody would always give in every situation of this type, if they were actually in the midst of it.

Rightly or wrongly, and for better or worse, I think these adults did what human beings often do when they're not sure what to say or do: That is, they say/do nothing.

 

I hope that's not the case Evil.

 

Guilty mother fuckers tend to forget all sorts of things when they get caught.
They're funny that way.



But not ha-ha funny.

 

Yes.
I didn't write a word about his writing ability. Conlin played a curmudgeon 52 weeks a year on Sunday mornings for several decades. His writing reflected his personality. He was churlish. He wasn't Vin Scully. A whole fucking pedophile scandal involving an actual beloved figure, and beloved football program is happening at the same time, in the same state, for chrissakes. For someone to write, on December 20, 2011, that Conlin diddled kids is like finding out there is no Santa Claus, is absolute horseshit.