[Magdalen] Cosby.

[Marion Thompson]

Anyone but me remember a 1968 British psychological thriller  Twisted Nerve with Haley Mills?  I quote “The lines of poetry quoted by the professor, "No puppet master pulls the strings on high / Proportioning our parts, the tinsel and the paint / A twisted nerve, a ganglion gone awry / Predestines the sinner or the saint" come from "Slaves" by George Sylvester Viereck.
  A young man pretends he is intellectually impaired to get close to the girl played by Hayley Mills.  To advance his chilling schemes he kills a lot of people who get in his way.

Some people, sadly, are damaged beyond repair in some way from the start, as per the lines above.  Somewhere in the movie the young man is described as a narcissistic sociopath.  

Marion, a pilgrim
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From: Marion Thompson
Sent: April 28, 2018 3:10 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: RE: [Magdalen] Cosby.

The Christ light shines within us all, even though it may be buried under a mountain of evil deeds or often lie concealed by dreadful experiences and defences that may have shaped us.

Marion, a pilgrim

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From: ME Michaud
Sent: April 28, 2018 2:56 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Cosby.

I probably told you this before.

Several years ago I was called to jury duty.
A man who’d been judged to be sexually dangerous had been sentenced to the
state hospital for the criminally insane. He’d already served a couple of
decades and was now petitioning to be declared NOT sexually dangerous and
therefore eligible for parole.

He admitted to having raped somewhere upwards of forty boys.

I had written (on the jury form) that I believed that in some cases people
could be rehabilitated.

I’m not sure I still believe that today.
-M