Richard Dawkins under fire for ‘mild pedophilia’ remarks [View all]
Trevor Grundy | Sep 9, 2013
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Richard Dawkins, one of the worlds best-known and outspoken atheists, has provoked outrage among child protection agencies and experts after suggesting that recent child abuse scandals have been overblown.
In an interview in The Times magazine on Saturday (Sept. 7), Dawkins, 72, he said he was unable to condemn what he called the mild pedophilia he experienced at an English school when he was a child in the 1950s.
Referring to his early days at a boarding school in Salisbury, he recalled how one of the (unnamed) masters pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts.
He said other children in his school peer group had been molested by the same teacher but concluded: I dont think he did any of us lasting harm.
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