This is almost certainly the most terrible thing you will read today

I'm not excerpting anything, because it's all pretty bad. The first paragraph is chilling. Later grafs read like something that a deranged adolescent might write in a "horror" story that would land him in psychological counseling. The Catholic Church and Penn State are evoked, but the situation at Spirit Lake is possibly worse, as it's implied that there *isn't* exactly an effort at a "cover-up", per se, because the town is so neglected by society that there's no *need* to conceal what's happening there, what has been happening there for generations.

The header/link title--U.S. Is Taking Over Spirit Lake Sioux’s Social Services - NYTimes.com-- is oddly benign. The title of the online article itself is "A Tribe’s Epidemic of Child Sex Abuse, Minimized for Years," and in the print edition the even more foreboding "Seeking to Stem Endless Abuse of Tribe's Children."

If you *don't* want to be sad and angry this morning, just let this one pass you by. For reals.