This is just too sad.

Did Pedophilia Hysteria Cause Child's Death?

I was thinking of something similar to this yesterday, musing about all those old stories and television series where children befriended older people, usually men, and had terrific friendships. You know some of the media ones: Beaver Cleaver and Gus, the old guy at the firehouse, Timmy Martin and Cully Wilson, the old codger from the farm down the road, Darlene Gillespie as "Corky" in the Mickey Mouse Club serial "Corky and White Shadow" with Uncle Dan, the hermit in the woods. It was considered okay and even pleasant for a child to have an older mentor back then, someone that might sub for a missing grandparent. The Cleavers, the Martins, Corky's dad, and other parents didn't have any problem with the friendship—because that's all it was, a friendship. Today this relationship is construed differently and I can't imagine any kid in a television show having a relationship like this.

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