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Favored son’s decade-long sexual abuse of girl divides small Missouri town
Residents of Dearborn in Platte County have taken sides after a respected father is accused of decade-long abuse of girl. The split continued even after Darren Paden admitted molesting the girl. On Friday, a Platte County judge sentenced Darren Paden to 50 years in prison for repeatedly sexually abusing the girl. By Glenn E. Rice and Eric Adler.
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Even when a man admits to rape, people still defend him. But we don’t have rape culture, no sir!
It's just really sad how backwards some of these small towns are, and it makes me fortunate I live in a large community.
It would be horrible knowing that if anything ever happened to you, you couldn't do anything, because everyone in your town would try to cover it up and shun you for being a liar. Look at the Steubenville case where a whole town tried to cover up a rape case, because they attackers were star football teams. It's just sickening how weird and horrible some of these communities end up being when something goes wrong.