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Warpy

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6. Jeffs was a rare monster, thank goodness

Reply to Squinch (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 05:33 PM

Dec 2015

and he's now trying to bully everybody from inside prison. The old gang is being monitored and one hopes the worst of the abuses of little girls are history.

However, it proves my point that the problem exists mainly with people who are extremely religious and therefore rigidly patriarchal.

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