your view of parenting is extremely simpleminded. Just what was my mother supposed to do, never let me play with the next door neighbor (another kid my own brother's age) who had never shown signs of touching children or being creepy before? She couldn't read the kid's mind.

Could she have known? Probably not and that happens to be the case with many molestations. They often happen to be the people that parents are supposed to be able to trust, oh like say, a nationally known football coach in one of the most respected colleges in the nation who started a foundation to help struggling, underprivileged kids by taking them out of their shitty element to a place where education, discipline and hard work are celebrated? Oh those naive (dumb?) parents!

Seriously, man, you think there is some kind of manual for parenting that tells one how to be the perfect parent in a world in which really bad things are creeping around the corner everywhere? Yeah... no.