The next day, a defense psychologist describes everything Alcide would say to Ricky when he was angry. That Ricky was worthless. That he was queer. That Ricky molests children, the psychologist says, may be a sign that he was molested himself. Most pedophiles were molested. That isn’t true. It’s repeated a lot, but it isn’t true. Most pedophiles, like most other people, weren’t molested. And there’s no indication that people who were molested become pedophiles. What is true is that among pedophiles, a greater percentage were molested than the percentage of people in general who were
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