A friend directed me to this news article. Apparently, a woman in Japan was playing a game online in which she had a virtual husband, who was a man she didn't otherwise know living in a city 620 miles away. Her virtual husband suddenly divorced her virtual self with no explanation and she got angry - so angry that she logged onto the computer as ( Read more... )

I was struck by the fact that both of the following stories involve grown men having sex with 8-year-old girls.

The first story was one I heard on NPR yesterday morning, Justices Weigh Death Penalty for Child Rape. It involves the case of a man in Louisiana who is on death row for raping his 8-year-old stepdaughter about 10 years ago. Apparently ( Read more... )