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• How a dubious statistic convinced U.S. courts to approve of indefinite detention

In the 2002 case McKune v. Lile, the Supreme Court upheld a Kansas law that imposed harsher sentences on sex offenders who declined to participate in a prison rehab program.(Radley Balko - The Washington Post, US)

• The crusade against Ted Heath: dancing on people’s graves

The inquisition into historical allegations of abuse is out of control.(Frank Furedi - spiked, UK)

• Compo culture and the child abuse panic

Historic sex abuse claims have fuelled the UK’s compensation industy.(Barbara Hewson - spiked, UK)

• The NSPCC: still fostering fear and suspicion

The child-protection industry is constructing the crime it claims to combat. (Tim Black - spiked, UK)

• Source: Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert allegedly paid to hide sexual misconduct

Former Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert allegedly paid hush money to cover up sexual misconduct with a male student dating to his time as a coach and teacher in Yorkville, according to a source familiar with the investigation. ( Natasha Korecki - Chicago Sun Times, US)

• Former House speaker Dennis Hastert indicted by federal grand jury

J. Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in the history of the U.S. House, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that he violated banking laws in a bid to pay $3.5 million to an unnamed person to cover up “past misconduct.” (Paul Kane, Mike DeBonis and Mark Berman - The Washington Post, US)

• Operation Hydrant: an Inquisition for the 21st century

Police trawling for child-abuse cases is an affront to justice. (Frank Furedi - spiked, UK)

• Canada's biggest child porn case ends with conviction on 15 charges

Brian Way whose Queensway video business (Azov Films), where a 2011 police raid garnered 187,000 images and 8,000 videos, had international impact was convicted on 15/17 charges. (Robert Cribb - Toronto Star, Ca)

• It’s right that Lord Janner won’t be prosecuted

Demands to try Janner show how unhinged the child-sex panic has become. (Luke Gittos - spiked, UK)

• How ‘recovered memories’ fuelled the paedo panic

The UK justice system needs to face facts: 'recovered memories' simply aren't credible. (Barbara Hewson - spiked, UK)

• Pedophilia: Predisposition Or Perversion?

On Tuesday night, The Current hosted what their editor in chief referred to no fewer than three times as a “groundbreaking” discussion about the psychology of pedophilia. Thrilled just to be invited, Bwog’s own Editor in Chief Taylor Grasdalen attended to learn more. (BWOG)

• The Hampstead cult that wasn’t: the Satanic panic revisited

In the current climate, it’s all too easy for fantasists to be taken seriously. (Barbara Hewson - spiked, UK)

• This man is a pedophile, and proud of it

Meet the activist (Tom O'Carroll) whose life’s work is arguing that pedophilia is OK. (Corinne Purtill - Global Post, US)