A Truly Terrible Story

“The letter on my desk was from a family, a husband and wife. They had written to me after reading a short news article I’d done about a 26-year-old convicted child molester who had been arrested that week and charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The girl was their daughter. She had been raped by the man two months earlier but had been locked away in juvenile detention for more than a month — longer than her attacker had been in custody.”
 — Here’s what is probably the most upsetting story you’ll ever hear.