It’s hard to say how this came about, but between the homophobes, the media’s Reptile Machine and the caring professionals who want to make us afraid of everybody and everything, we’ve managed to make minor hockey and day-care centres the two leading public stewpots of child molesters. Well, everybody is for apprehending and punishing molesters, but all this publicity shouldn’t be taken to mean that parents no longer need to teach their kids not to go into dark, enclosed spaces with members of certain occupational groups we’ve all known since about 1497 were prone to molest.