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Sympathy for the devil

Our moral decline should not include empathy for child molesters

2 May 2015

9:00 AM

2 May 2015

9:00 AM

When future chroniclers of our particular moral decline designate milestones on our long slide into nihilism, efforts to mitigate the evil of sexual abuse against children must surely rate a dishonourable mention. A particularly disgraceful example of this genre appeared in the Advertiser from the pen of its political editor Tory Shepherd.

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