The End of the Dream (51 page)

John English was far from the first “child” murderer in history, and, tragically, he was far from the last. He was simply a dread pioneer in a new category of killer. By the early nineties, of course, the phenomenon of murders committed by the very young was growing in America. Whether the open and permissive attitude about sex in the English home contributed somehow to the tragedy that occurred there is something that only forensic psychiatrists may be able to answer.

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