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

Pern, I gotta believe that the timing of all this was planned. Four people come out at the same time with allegations. The following day, three of four individuals involved just happen to retain the same law firm. Hmmmm

 

Some of the story behind the story from Deadspin, including email exchanges with Conlin Monday:

http://deadspin.com/5870204/

Wow. Conlin did himself no favors with this.

 

This. And yes, it is unfortunate.

Wow indeed. Good pull.

 

Drip, maybe your head is just too much with your buddy on this, but it's subhuman to question the victims' motives. He flat-out did it and the story leaves no doubt. None.

 

There is, seemingly, a route to a civil lawsuit.

The statute of limitations is two years for personal injury, right? But that's from when you discovered and should have discovered the injury. Not the time of the actual event. This is so that you can't, for example, not be able to sue for something like mesotheleoma that takes decades to emerge.

If someone can plausibly say they were diagnosed in the last two years with some sort of mental illness related to the sexual abuse as a child ... BAM! It can be traced, I'd guess, to a trigger like a child or grandchild becoming the age that the person was when they were victimized.

 

The subhead on the Inquirer page is a fucking abortion.

 

People do things for different reasons. I'm not questioning whether or not he did it. I'm questioning the way this all came out. It's just a little too neat for me. What are the odds of three victims coming out at the same time and retaining the same law firm?

 

One-hundred percent if they organize. Strength in numbers.

So?

 

Also worth knowing if they "organized" before the reporter began researching the story, or as a consequence of the research itself.

If this was only a shakedown they'd have hired the lawyer before the story appeared.

 

Not meaning to derail the thread but both Costa Rica and the DR have huge sex tourism industries.

When you land at the airport in San Jose there are graphic, blunt posters everywhere noting the punishment for sex with children. While there I went to a bar in a hotel to watch Monday Night Football and the place was packed with working girls and middle age and older Americans who were patroniozing them. I was pretty shocked as Costa Rica is a fairly stable, middle class country by Caribbean standards.

DR is worse imo. There is constant badgering by working girls and their pimps in some areas. There are even some resorts aimed at men where the women are brought in and you pick and choose for the week.

I have spent a fair amount of time working in the Caribbean and it was an aspect of life there that always made me sad.