FLORIDA
The Palm Beach Post
ByMichael LaForgia
Updated: 12:52 p.m. Monday, March 5, 2012
The detective flips on a tape recorder and eyes the skinny man sitting across from her. She reads him his rights and starts in on the questions.
“What I’d like to find out is if anything happened between you and Michael. Did you molest Michael?” the detective asks.
“Uh, yes. If that’s the word you want to use,” the man says. He’s tall, better than 6 feet, and rail-thin. He has a long, strange neck and sharp features, like a bird’s. He seems comfortable making the admission.
“Tell me exactly what occurred.”
He does, explaining in graphic detail his encounters with the 14-year-old boy, whose mother had trusted the man and brought him into her St. Lucie County home. “If he wanted to do it, I, I always knew. Because of the hints that he would throw me,” the man begins.
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