You can't just convict someone of molesting a child just because they said they did it. You have to be able to prove the molestation charges apart from the confession. You need other evidence.

If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents don’t have to be brilliant psychologists to succeed. They don’t have to be supremely gifted teachers. Most of the stuff parents do with flashcards and special drills and tutorials to hone their kids into perfect achievement machines don’t have any effect at all. Instead, parents just have to be good enough. They have to provide their kids with stable and predictable rhythms. They need to be able to fall in tune with their kids’ needs, combining warmth and discipline. They need to establish the secure emotional bonds that kids can fall back upon in the face of stress. They need to be there to provide living examples of how to cope with the problems of the world so that their children can develop unconscious models in their heads.

Oh yeah, definitely. The way he's going right now, I don't see why not.

It gives us the opportunity to assess numbers, and more importantly, to address the issue.

All of our pitchers are really young and we have a lot of sophomores that should get some varsity experience. They just have to work hard and we'll do fine.

If probation believes a person has been molesting an 11-year-old, there has to be a response, and there will be. The state's not going to put itself in a position of knowing a crime's being committed and doing nothing.