He videotaped his sexual assault of the two-year-old.
But when I opened up my AOL home page, here is how the case was described:
That link takes you to the article linked in the first line, which has the cleaned-up title "Man Convicted in Toddler Video Case," though the URL still contains "man-convicted-in-toddler-sex-video."
Liss has written a lot about the media's refusal to call rape what it is (two examples). I don't have much to add, but I was particularly struck (and angered) by this.
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