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  • 1984 - The stigma sticks like peanut butter to molasses - A 15 year old street prostitute named Robert Barry Schaddelee accused youth employment counselor Rob Joyce of paying him for sex. Joyce was fired from his job with the British Columbia Ministry of Human Resources and publicly called an unrepentant child molester by the Minister of Human Resources, Grace McCarthy. Schaddelee then publicly retracted the accusation in a vain attempt to undo the damage after Joyce had lost both his job and his employability. Sadly, the boy then died from an overdose of heroin. The allegations against Joyce was officially determined to be "unsubstantiated," a designation meaning "unresolved" rather than "unfounded," which placed Joyce's name on the provincial Child Abuse Registry and effectively ruined his social service credibility without allowing him to clear his name in the courts. On this date he began the process to rehabilitate his reputation and to reinstate himself with his former employer. In the end the government decided that rumor and innuendo was enough to do nothing to help him.
  • 1998 - Round two begins - Mary Kay Letourneau was arrested for violating her probation order on this date. She had been convicted for having sex with 13 year old Vili Fualaau, a boy who had been her student and later who she tutored. She was arrested this second time when she was discovered in her car with the then 14 year old boy. Her probation agreement explicitly barred her from contact with him. The result of that encounter was a seven year sentence and a second pregnancy with Fualaau as the father. Some have called her an evil child molester. Others have called her an ill woman. Still others just say she is a woman in love with a person she is not allowed to love. No matter how anyone sees it, it is a sad story one way or another.
  • 1999 - "Pass the tequila, Sheila, lie down and love me again." - Art Hanger, a Canadian Member of Parliament, called for two copies of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita to be removed from the Library of Parliament in Ottawa on this date. Hanger's Reform Party colleagues distanced themselves from his request. "I think the kind of conduct that is described is despicable," Reform leader Preston Manning said, "but I don't want to get into arguing about what books should be in the Library of Parliament." Hanger did not comment on the fact that the library was at the same time keeping the February issue of the Canadian edition of Hustler magazine in a brown envelope in a drawer, viewable on request by MPs, senators, and journalists. The issue features a contest that invites readers to say why they would want to have sex with Heritage Minister Sheila Copps. A library official told the press that any time a parliamentarian is in the news, every "publication of record" is kept on hand until the controversy dies down. Or is that until the hard-ons die down?
  • 2002 - And the verdict is ... - Here's the scenario: A man and a woman meet online. They engage in cybersex a number of times. the man tells the woman he would be interested in a girl, so the woman tells the man she has a niece. The man offers to pay her $100 for sex with the girl. The woman reports the man and he was arrested when he went to pick up the girl. In fact, the girl never existed - the woman made her up. Now here is where it gets interesting. On this date a web poll on a crime site was conducted asking people if he really should be considered guilty of any crime at all. Sixty percent said "yes," but forty percent said "no." It's not clear what is more interesting - the number of people not thinking the man criminal or the fact that the question was raised at all. Based on those numbers, it sure sounds like people don't have much love for entrapment schemes.

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