There is a terrible story out of Oklahoma about a compound on a rural property comprised of several mobile homes and RVs in which children in residence were sexually abused. Eleven people have been arrested "on complaints ranging from first-degree rape to enabling child abuse."
There's not a whole lot of information available to the public at this point, but my guess is that the three-family community was started by convicted sex offenders whose inclusion on the sex offender registry rendered them unable to live in an established community.
Anyway, I was trying to find more information about the story and wound up at KOCO.com, which is the website for the Oklahoma City ABC affiliate, and, at the top of their article page, I see this:
It's a banner of "Hot Topics" which includes the linked topics: Who Got Arrested? | Sex Offenders | Free Ride Scholarships | Mall Hours.
My first thought was that it might just be an unfortunate result born of some algorithm that generates "Hot Topics" links from accessed content. But no. Clicking on the "Sex Offenders" link takes you not to an archive of stories that are getting lots of hits because of the aforementioned breaking news, but to this page, featuring a KOCO-created "slideshow of Oklahoma sex offenders who have failed to register, according to the Oklahoma Sex and Violent Crime Offender Registry."
Hot Topic. Like how late the mall is open.
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