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

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Dec 20, 2011.

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  1. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Please.
     
  2. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    He didn't get away with shit.

    His name is ruined. His reputation is destroyed. He's a pariah.

    He didn't get away with it just because he doesn't have to shell out a few bucks.

    I hope to God his transgressions were limited to what happened forty years ago.

    I'd be curious to see what's on his computer, though.
     
  3. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    As a parent, some of the threads on here really hit home. It seems -- in retrospect -- that some of these parents really buried their heads and hoped it blew over.

    But what a tough spot. As long as your child is not injured, doesn't seem to have been victim of anything more than "groping" and could be possibly misinterpreting events, what do you do?

    It's seems that in most of these cases, parents are more concerned about a relative who may go postal or be crushed than anything else.
     
  4. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    His baseball knowledge might be the least respected in the country.
     
  5. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Different eras, and impossible to put yourself in that position where you'd be bucking the social norms so dramatically. you'd forever be the person who put uncle bill in prison. nowadays we say "so what," but back then it would have been the accusers who would have been stigmatized.
     
  6. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    He was one of just a handful of columnists left who is completely identified with the paper he works for and the city he lives in.

    There are probably only 5-10 of those guys left.
     
  7. Sure he did.
    He's a 77 year-old man who is free to come and go and as he pleases. Not a day in jail for his alleged crimes.

    And at this point all this ... allegations. Well-reported and sourced allegations.
    Supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. So no, he's is not ruined.
    At age 77, he retired or resigned, whichever, whatever.

    He's similar to John Demjanjuk. Old Nazi. Old child molester...They may be old, but they still are who they are. Monsters. Fucking monsters.

    I know of no pariahs. Everyone has friends. Conlin will still have his friends. Some of them, anyway. Friends and relatives who will stick with him because there are no charges. Just allegations.
    And even if he's charged and convicted or sued, he will still have friends and relatives who stand by him. Who won't believe the allegations. I have seen it happen. Time and again.

    And Conlin will still have his books, stories, and columns and memories of TV appearances. And money. All shit he shouldn't have had if someone had stepped forward decades ago.

    He has a condo in the DR, where he can live like a king in obscurity. That's a 180 degrees from the prison cell his old fat ass deserves.

    No. He got away with it Dick. For now.
     
  8. Glenn Stout

    Glenn Stout Member

    New BBWAA statement: http://bbwaa.com/conlin-statement-2/

    Official Statement
    Statement on Bill Conlin, winner of the 2011 J.G. Taylor Spink Award:

    “We were shocked and saddened to learn of the allegations involving Bill Conlin and we extend our sympathies to everyone involved. This is a matter far more serious than baseball and, at this point, a matter best left to the proper authorities.”

    – Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times
    BBWAA President
    Dec. 21, 2011
     
  9. Small Town Guy

    Small Town Guy Well-Known Member

    I'd rather someone else wasn't sexually assaulted, yes.
     
  10. Bob Cook

    Bob Cook Active Member

    Typical of Conlin's sloppy-as-warm-shit reporting (of recent vintage) that he didn't bother to find out that the whole Genovese tale of "no one responding" is now considered a myth.

    http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/people/uploads/MarkLevine20070604T095238.pdf

    If only Conlin's worst sin were that.
     
  11. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    That depends.

    What's our extradition treaty with them like regarding sex crimes?

    The Dominican Republic has long been one of the world's leading sex tourism destinations, but even it now frowns on kiddie sex.

    So even Conlin - if guilty of the allegations - may not have a place to hide.
     
  12. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I agree with that across the board. If I'm a DA in Philly, I'm doing everything I can to try to get a warrant to search his home, computers etc...
     
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