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Monday, October 26, 2015
Sylvia - XIII: Coda
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At a remove of fifty years, the story of Sylvia Likens is a commingling of fact and myth. It’s not likely we will ever have a comple...
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Saturday, October 24, 2015
Sylvia - XII: Sense from Senselessness
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We pay considerably more attention to the problem of child abuse and neglect today than when Sylvia Likens died in 1965. Th...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015
Sylvia - XI: A Way to Tell a Story
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What seems madness to a detached observer can have a strange banality to those living within it. Consider the subjective experiences o...
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Monday, October 19, 2015
Sylvia - X: The Prosecutor (Or, The Importance of Being Leroy New)
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Of all the people concerned in the aftermath of the Sylvia Likens murder, the one I most would have liked to have met is Leroy K. New. ...
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