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>> was born in charlestown in 1859. he was a local boy if you will. he was born with a slight defect in his right eye. his eye looked really white and because of that, people made fun of him quite a bit. his family his schoolmates. he was abused because he looked a little bit different and he really got beat up for that. he really got abused at school. children who were much older then him and much bigger than him really made him pay dearly for that. his own father believes maybe he was possessed, that it was some kind of a sign of the devil something terrible within him. his father really abused him terribly. so he grew up knowing quite a lot of pain. in turn the only way he could control that, he started abusing children who are much younger
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and much smaller than he was. people didn't know it was actually him doing that early on. they found out in 1871 when children across the street in chelsea started suffering and talking about a young boy who would befriend them and take them places, give them candy give them money, take them to the circus, just be friendly to them and eventually he started taking them into shad places far away from the city and there he really abused them, cut them burn them and mutilated them. the city didn't really want to deal with that. it was a very vocal story in chelsea until boston realized some the more was going on and "the boston globe" got wind of it. and they wrote an article that was published early in 1872.
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as soon as that hey, people realized maybe they had some thing and even his mother sort of recognized there was something about the description that people were giving that sounded familiar. she learned that maybe this boy that people didn't know too much about it she had an inkling that it was her own son who is doing that. they're telling the police, what she did was take the whole family away from charlestown and moved them to stop austin. she figured maybe away from the environment that they were things would stop. instead what she did was just take the problem away with her because while the abuse stopped in chelsea, it started up again in south austin. over there, almost right away he became isolated. he became loudly. children didn't really want to play within. so he started walking the
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beaches of south austin and over there he would come across little children who were kind of globally as well. he started abusing them as well. he got away with that for quite a long time until one boy who was not as fragile as the rest of them gave the detectives a clue that really helped them figure out who is doing this. joseph kennedy was a little boy who told them that he could give him a good description because he recognized that this boy this really tall boy who is doing these things had a really funny looking i am because of that they narrowed down the person they were looking for. they started looking over the city, the detectives went looking through the schools. they went looking all over and they still didn't find him. jesse pretty much gave himself
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up. one day while walking home from school, he decided it would be fun to walk into a police station, just to see what was happening. he opened the door and walked right in. the one person that he saw, the first person he saw was this little boy that he had just abused. he pointed a finger at hand and pretty much was done. >> each month, oklahoma representative tom cole releases a reading list on its website. here's a list of the recommended books which focus from women's history. representative cole is currently reading nixon and mao by market mcmillan which looks at the diplomatic relationship between the united states and china.
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>> it's a great thrill to be introducing a personal hero of mine lynsey addario for riveting new memoir it's what i do. lynsey is one of the most respected photographers working today. her fearless work in "the new york times" national geographic time and other publications has borne witness to the struggle of more violence all over the world world. in "it's what i do" she takes us along for passing right through wars on the battlefields but she

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