The saga of the kidnapped five-year old in Dale County, Alabama has come to a conclusion. The boy is safe and resting in a hospital and his captor, Jimmy Lee Dykes — who kidnapped the boy after shooting his bus driver dead — is dead himself following an FBI raid.

Now, the FBI has released images of the exterior of bunker where Dykes held the boy, and well... it looks like what I guess a bunker would look like, but still a stunning sight nonetheless. The photo above shows a wide-angle exterior shot of the bunker, which all told doesn't look very conspicuous at all. The photo below is a closer shot, that shows the long PVC pipe used by the FBI in order to communicate with Dykes.

[via Buzzfeed, images via FBI]

Congratulations are in order for hopeless romantic, imagined boyfriend and soon-to-be NFL linebacker Manti Te'o: he's finally made a sound decision. Te'o — who was of course duped into believing that he had a girlfriend and that she died of cancer when in fact "she" was actually a he — has deleted (or at least suspended) his Twitter account as he prepares for April's NFL Draft.

According to ESPN, it's gonna stay that way for the indefinite future.

Manti Te'o's Twitter account no longer exists.

The account using the handle, @MTeo_5, disappeared from the social media platform during the Super Bowl broadcast Sunday.

A source told ESPN.com the former Notre Dame linebacker will be off Twitter for an indefinite period of time to prepare for the NFL draft. Twitter accounts that are deleted can be reactivated by that person.

Te'o's advisors obviously hope that giving up Twitter well help keep him out of the type of trouble that has engulfed his life in the last month or so, but the entire ordeal does make you wonder if Twitter was really the root of the problem in the first place (hint: it wasn't). If Te'o fell for a story as unbelievable as Lennay Kekua's then pushing him off Twitter might just cause him to fall in love with... I don't know, a plotted plant? Pick any inanimate object, really.

But, hey, let's not miss the forest for trees ("Lennay Kekua" "attended" Stanford, whose mascot is a tree). Manti Te'o has finally made a good decision. A round of applause for the dunce!

[via ESPN, image via AP]

Touré (pictured above interviewing T.I.) is a fine writer — or at least he was at one point. Now he mostly spends his time as a helium-filled talking head, floating drably across MSNBC's midday airwaves. This is a pretty cushy job, seeing as you can say basically anything without anyone giving a shit since the only people watching cable news during the day are those being crushed to death by boredom in lobbies across the country. But there's a catch: when you get paid to talk in circles every day, sometimes you'll find yourself arguing a position you probably should not be arguing. And if you're stubborn enough and your argument is stupid enough — you are on cable news, after all — then you might find yourself in the center of a firestorm.

And so we come to the ballad of Touré, who today expressed his support of Barack Obama's right to kill American citizens — specifically, American citizens that have joined Al-Qaeda — via unmanned drones.

MSNBC's The Cycle erupted into a heated verbal battle over the ethicality of drone warfare on Tuesday. Co-hosts S.E. Cupp and Steve Kornacki expressed serious reservations over a memo leaked to NBC News by the Justice Department detailing the legal framework that allows for the targeting and killing of an American citizen abroad by an unmanned drone. Touré, however, found his fellow hosts' objections to be misguided, and repeatedly said he was "comfortable" with the White House's guidelines governing drone warfare.

Touré then dug deeper.

"It's hard to say, ‘let's not do things because we might radicalize other people,'" Touré said of his co-host's objections to drone strikes.

"But that was the argument under Bush," Cupp interjected.

"But when we say, ‘this person is leading Al Qaeda to do things' – as soon as you join Al Qaeda, you become an imminent threat," Touré added as his fellow hosts exploded

This continued to go on, with Touré standing his ground as his fellow panelists exhaled in exasperation around him. Then he went on Twitter and dug the hole even deeper.

He's the Commander in Chief. RT @kirstenpowers10: You are fine w the White House deciding who is guilty and who should die?

— Touré (@Toure) February 5, 2013

No. RT @mchastain81: Dear @toure. A US citizen is allowed due process no matter what they have done, even an AQ leader.

— Touré (@Toure) February 5, 2013

You'll never see the right care so much about civil liberties as when you start talking about the rights of Americans in Al Qaeda. #Weird

— Touré (@Toure) February 6, 2013

And so Touré caught the wrath of the Twittersphere, from Glenn Greenwald to Andrew Kaczynski to our own Mobutu Sese Seko. But of course, tomorrow is a new day, and someone else will be the village idiot. It probably won't be Touré, who will happily live on in the land of afternoon nothingness... until he says something beyond-the-pale once again.

[via Mediaite, image via Getty]

also: LINK?

Believe it or not, five-time Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte is still a thing. The swimmer, who took America by storm last year after winning five overall medals in the London Olympics despite barely being able to form complete sentences, is still hanging around the edges of pop culture before Dancing With the Stars or whatever inevitably comes calling. What does this month bring? Well, a magazine cover, of course.

The man who trademarked the word phrase "Jeah!" (shh, nobody tell him that's not a real word) will appear in ESPN the Magazine's upcoming music issue, which like Lochte himself, is a thing that exists for reasons no one can explain. Lochte will appropriately be playing the role of the baby in Nirvana's iconic cover for Nevermind, and as promotion for the issue, ESPN decided to make Lochte look dumber than one of the Subway sandwiches hawked by Michael Phelps.

Lochte's cover comes out this week, but ESPN has released a preview in which the gold-medal swimmer says the following things:

— "Iconic Nirc-vana"

— "The cover is definitely global, brah."

— "If you look at the baby, he's definitely happy in the water. And that's what I am."

— "He's chasing after a dollar bill. So he's always on the grind."

— "Trying to perfect the perfect the shot in the water was kinda easy for me. Just because I spend about four hours a day, every day of my life, in the water."

— "Usually when I go swimming, I have goggles on. So when I didn't have my goggles on for this shoot my eyes were definitely burning."

— [Blinks five times in two seconds] "Am I blinking a lot, cause I feel like it."

— "Hopefully everyone's reaction when they see it, they'll be like, daang, look at that guy. I honestly think I nailed the shot."

Whatever. Anyway, the most notable aspect of this entire ordeal is that Lochte was shot wearing a speedo, despite the Nirvana baby letting it all hang out. You could say that this robbed us of being able to find out if Ryan Lochte's penis is comparable to that of a toddler, except that we already know the answer to that one.

[via USA Today, image via ESPN]

Good news for the entirety of the internet, which it turns out is an entity solely supported by people arguing about "Girls": HBO has picked up another show to be helmed by Lena Dunham hired Dunham to write a new pilot. It's called "Harlem," and will see Dunham profiling the lives of those in New York City's worst projects in a show that insiders are likening to "The Wire." Just kidding.

Lena Dunham, creator/star/executive producer of hot comedy Girls, has teamed with her Girls co-showrunner, executive producer Jenni Konner, for another potential HBO comedy series set in New York. The pay cable network has optioned All Dressed Up And Everywhere To Go, the upcoming memoir by long-time Bergdorf Goodman personal shopper and New York institution Betty Halbreich. Dunham and Konner plan to write together the TV project, which will delve into the life of Halbreich who has spent decades working with the rich and famous.

So, basically "The Devil Wears Prada" on television? Sounds about right. Dunham probably loves that movie, as she should, because it's a great movie. Halbreich has been a personal shopper for various movie stars with no time to shop and New York City socialites with nothing to do but shop (and take cocaine).

There's been no timetable set for Dunham's new vehicle, which will also be executive produced by shadow male Judd Apatow. "Girls" itself has already been renewed for a third season, which means that Dunham will soon rule the world even if no one really watches her show.

[via Deadline, image via Getty]

Early this morning, veteran Kaufman, Tex. County prosecutor Mark E. Hasse, pictured above, was walking across an employee parking lot near the courthouse there like he probably has countless of times. But today was different: at least one gunman hopped out of a Ford Taurus and murdered him in broad daylight before speeding off. Witnesses described a scene that seemed ripped straight from a million generic Hollywood films: the assailants were wearing masks, vests and all-black clothing.

Now, policemen in the town just southeast of Dallas will try and unravel who ordered the hit. According to the AP, Hasse once served as the chief of the organized crime division of the Dallas County district attorney's office, so there's likely a litany of possibilities. One, though, sticks out due to recency:

Kaufman County prosecutors have been involved in investigations of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang. In November, federal officials in Houston thanked a number of local agencies for their work - including Kaufman County prosecutors - when more than 30 senior leaders and other members of the gang were indicted on federal racketeering charges.

Someone somewhere got their man this morning, but "state prosecutor" would be very, very low on a list of people that one could safely assassinate in front of a bunch of witnesses. Good luck (well, not really) to whoever's trying to get away with this one.

[via NY Times, image via AP]

Some cops play by the rules, others do not. Gerald Gibson is a narcotics officer in Philadelphia who allegedly does not play by the rules. He's also the son-in-law of Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett (pictured above). This should be fun.

According to NBC Philadelphia, Gibson has been placed on administrative leave after an FBI sting. In that sting, Gibson was reportedly told to search a vehicle. He was then observed via a hidden camera taking money from that car — the money, of course, was placed there by the FBI.

Details beyond that — like what Gibson did in the first place to arouse the suspicion of the FBI — have not yet trickled out, but the Philadelphia PD did acknowledge that one of their officers has been removed from duty.

Police are not naming Gibson as the officer, but they did send out a brief statement about the investigation late Thursday, explaining that an officer was removed from his duties after a joint investigation by the FBI and their Internal Affairs Unit. In their statement, the officer is not identified, police say, because he hasn't been arrested or charged with any crime.

This image of Gibson via NBC Philadelphia shows the officer just a few bodies down from Gov. Corbett during his inauguration.

He appears to be eying Corbett intently — or maybe he just spotted a wad of cash.

[via NBC Philadelphia, image via Getty]

A number of people have reportedly been injured in an explosion at the Mexico City skyscraper that serves as the offices of Pemex, the state-owned oil monopoly. Details right now are scarce, but the company confirmed via Twitter that people were injured on the ground floor and mezzanine level of the building. According to Telemundo, the explosion was caused by an electrical issue.

Reuters is reporting that one person has died and at least 20 more were injured, but those numbers have not been officially confirmed and will surely become more accurate as the night wears on. On Sept. 12 of last year, at least 30 died after an explosion at a Pemex plant in Northern Mexico.

Pemex, or Petróleos Mexicanos, is one of the most valuable enterprises in the world. We'll update this story throughout the night.

UPDATE: The AP is reporting that 14 people have died and 80 have been injured. Those numbers may also not be final, as people are still believed to be trapped in the rubble.

[via Reuters, image of firefighters at Pemex blast site via AP]

As you slip into bed tonight wondering how you spent another night watching television for six hours, think about the other types of fun you could be having. Like, for instance, getting hammered and stealing multiple vehicles, including an ambulance and two cars. And also trying to steal two horses. Definitely trying to steal two horses.

That was the kind of fun had this weekend by Matthew Anderson Todd, the upstanding 24-year-old resident of Boaz, Ala. somberly pictured above. Oh, did good ol' Matthew live his life.

Police say it all began when Todd was arrested for DUI after a car crash. He was taken to Marshall Medical Center South for treatment. Police say while at the hospital, he walked out, got into a running ambulance and drove away.

Totally solid idea. After stalling the ambulance, Matthew wandered off...

"He walked across a pasture and got into a barn where he tried to saddle up two horses," says Boaz Assistant Chief Todd Adams. "One was too wild for him and the other he appeared to be too intoxicated to properly saddle the horse."

I'd imagine that he was also too intoxicated to properly saddle the wild horse, but that was the least of his problems.

Police say Anderson then stole a car, which he crashed. They say he then stole another car and got away.

TWAS THE PERFECT CRIME.

However, on Saturday police say Anderson started bleeding from his original injuries. He sought treatment back at the hospital, was recognized and then arrested.

Or not. But he should become a party planner.

[via WHNT 19]

If you're a dude in your 20s, you may be fond of the Adam Sandler film "Billy Madison." For anyone too mature for pee and armpit jokes (and whatever else happens in "Billy Madison" — I swear when I was 11 I thought it was hilarious) or just generally averse to Sandler, this is basically what happens: Sandler plays a manchild forced to repeat elementary school by his mega-rich father. Hilarity ensues. Chris Farley drives off of a cliff (or something). Sandler gets to screw Bridgette Wilson. This happens.

Over the last month, St. Louis resident Veronica Williams, pictured above, has been forced into a hellish, "Billy Madison"-esque existence. Except she doesn't get to see Bradley Whitford shot in the ass at the end. Williams' fourth grader attends Barack Obama Elementary (Barack Obama Elementary!), and administrators there allege he has been disrupting class. The school's solution, apparently, has been to require that either Williams or her partner sit in class with her son. Every single day. Believe it or not, Williams has not been able to swing that!

Veronica Williams says she went to school with her son for awhile, but can't afford to do so anymore for fear of losing her job.

She says when she stopped going to class her son was kicked out of school and he hasn't been back in over a week.

Veronica Williams says she can't believe an administrator at Barack Obama Elementary said her 10-year-old son cannot return to school unless she or another adult sits in class with him every day.

"It's frustrating. It's stressful. It's ridiculous. I done it for two weeks", said Williams.

According to Williams, when she sent her son to school by himself, he was suspended. She says she was told that her son could not come to school unless he was accompanied by an adult. This is, of course, completely and utterly ludicrous. But such are the solutions in overcrowded and understaffed American public schools.

[via FOX 2 St. Louis]

At the root of the unimaginable tragedy in Brazil — in which 234 people died and at least 120 others were hospitalized in a fire at a nightclub called Kiss — is wanton carelessness for others. According to police in Brazil, the fire was ignited by flares that were intended for outdoor use. Why did Gurizada Fandangueira, the band playing that night, set off those flares inside the club? Because they were cheap.

Penny-pinching by a band known for its onstage pyrotechnic displays may have cost more than 230 people their lives at a nightclub in southern Brazil, according to a police inspector leading the investigation into this weekend's deadly blaze.

Inspector Marcelo Arigony told reporters at a news conference Tuesday that members of the band knowingly purchased flares meant for outdoor use because they cost a mere $1.25 a piece, compared with the $35 price tag for an indoor flare.

"The flare lit was for outdoor use only, and the people who lit them know that," said Arigony, adding that members of the group acknowledged regularly opting for the less expensive flares. "They chose to buy those because they were cheaper than those that can be used indoors."

Arigony, whose cousin died in the fire, added: "The pyrotechnics were part of their show - the guys even wore gloves onstage so they wouldn't burn their hands."

Pyrotechnics were also the cause of the famous 2003 fire at The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That fire was set ablaze by the manager of the band Great White, and it killed 100 and injured 230. Daniel Biechele, the band's manager, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. One owner of the club, Michael Derderian, was sentenced to 15 years in prison (plus probation and community service) but was released in Sept. 2009. The other, Jeffrey Derderian, received a 10-year suspended sentence to go along with probation and community service.

The families of the victims of the fire at The Station also settled for millions of dollars with various parties, including the band, the maker of the flammable soundproof foam that became ignited and a Providence television station whose cameraman allegedly blocked the exit to the club and didn't assist in evacuation.

The process of both criminal and civil litigation stemming from the Brazil fire is still far down the road, but is lingering in the distance nonetheless. According to the AP, the owners of Kiss had also lined their club with a flammable foam that wasn't proper soundproof lining. The club also did not have a fire alarm or a sprinkler system, and only one open exit.

[via the AP, image via AP]

Conservatives thought they were going to win the 2012 Presidential Election. Instead, they were trounced by Barack Obama for the second time, sending the party off to search if not for its soul, then at least for a way to win a major election. The GOP has long been hostile to anyone that isn't rich, white and male, and with the country trending against that demographic in just about every way, the GOP needs to rethink what it stands for and who it wants to stand for it. It is, the thinking goes, the only way that they can stay competitive on a national level in a post-Obama landscape.

Oooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr they're just going to try and rig the elections.

You know, whatever works. Led by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus (pictured above), the party is attempting to work state legislatures to award electoral votes by congressional district instead of giving all electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the popular vote in that state. As you're probably aware, Republicans win far more congressional districts in presidential elections than Democrats do, but they (more often than not) lose the ones where all the people are. By making the congressional district containing Armpit, Ohio equal in power to the one that holds Cleveland, the Republicans hope to remedy that problem.

The Huffington Post whipped together this nifty graphic that shows what the 2012 electoral map would have looked like if every state adopted the congressional district plan.

In Virginia, a bill to move to this system will likely soon hit the floor of the State Senate. Of course, very few states — if any — will be stupid enough to adopt this plan, but that's not going to stop the Republicans from trying.

See you in 2016, dipshits.

[via Huffington Post, image via Getty]

Scotty Maloney is this year's homecoming king at Unionville Community High School in Unionville, Tenn. Maloney didn't win a vote of his peers, nor was he nominated. Instead, Maloney was awarded the crown by the school's three finalists for homecoming king — they wanted to honor Maloney, who suffers from Williams Syndrome, which is a neurological disorder that limits his ability to learn and speak.

It is a rare heartwarming story during yet another time in American history where it feels like the only news to come out of schools involve guns. Unionville student Jesse Cooper, who actually won the popular vote, explained the group's decision to WKRN-ABC in in Nashville.

"I've been blessed with so many things," said Jesse Cooper, who won the popular vote for king. "I just wanted Scotty to experience something great in his high school days."

According to various reports, Maloney received a 30-second standing ovation at a rally in the school's gym last week.

"When they called [Scotty's] name, his eyes got really big and I don't know that he registered exactly what was happening. He knew something was," Maloney's teacher Liz Hestle Gassaway told ABCNews.com. "It was very, very emotional."

Maloney has worn the medal given to the homecoming king to class everyday and will get to crown the winner next year. So, yes, nice things still do happen.

[story, image via WKRN]

If someone testifies against you in court, there are a number of ways you can get back at them. Of course it should be noted that you should definitely not try and get back at them, unless you specifically want to deepen whatever legal trouble you're in. But anyway, the possibilities are almost truly infinite. You could, for instance, "swat" the person. Or you could dump a can of orange paint on the person's car. You could, I don't know, toss a watermelon through the person's front window.

But if you're Dr. Donald A. Holshuh of Keene, N.H., you'll go to the person's office and... piss on his door. Yep, that's what you'll do. Not only that, you'll do it in front of security cameras so he knows just exactly whose piss he was smelling. And why would you do that? Because the person was a state's witness in a hearing to suspend your license. Also, because you're likely insane.

The Keene Police Department launched an investigation into the incident on Aug. 14. Officials said a man urinated on the employee door of a dental office on Court Street, occupied by Dr. Wirant. A surveillance camera recorded the incident and police identified the suspect as Dr. Donald A. Holshuh.

Police said Wirant testified for the State of New Hampshire during a medical license suspension hearing against Holshuh.

Yep, this is what passes for a nearly half-a-year investigation in Keene, N.H. Pissing. But, then again, if this is what passes as retaliation, the police probably don't have much going on anyway.

[via WMUR 9]

Orangutans, they're just like us. No, really. Smithsonian.com's blog Around the Mall has a story today on apes at the museum's National Zoo that have been playing with iPads for recreation, using specially designed apps that allow six orangutans to make music, draw and play games to improve their cognitive skills. I'd note that the apes at the National Zoo are now literally more productive on a day-to-day basis than me, but they probably were even before they got the iPads.

But the orangutans there have only begun to be exposed to the wonderful world of modern technology. Up next? APE SEXTS.

[Great ape keeper Becky] Malinsky hopes to, when wireless capabilities allow, use the FaceTime application to allow the orangutans to communicate with animals in other zoos or even with keepers they used to know but who have moved to new institutions. She says the animals' interactions with technology show just how similar to humans they can be and further strengthens the case and cause of orangutan conservation worldwide.

As we continue to willfully destroy the planet Earth, it only makes sense from a karma perspective that we begin to lose the privileges that we have as humans. Like, for instance, the ability to paw at a screen all day in an effort to fill the void before death. Or, say, being able to use FaceTime to watch your love interest piss into his or her mouth.

[via Around the Mall, image via Getty]

Today, the New York Times ran a story titled "Restaurants Turn Camera Shy," about the push back against the now ubiquitous act of diners taking photos of their food. As one would expect of a Times trend story about frivolous bullshit, no one profiled in the story comes off as sane and/or respectable. But who's the worst? That's for you to decide. Here are the candidates:

• David Bouley, a chef that brings diners back into the kitchen to get better shots of food. "We'll say, ‘That shot will look so much better on the marble table in our kitchen,'" Mr. Bouley said. "It's like, here's the sauce, here's the plate. Snap it. We make it like an adventure for them instead of telling them no." Nice, but also ridiculous and cloying.
• A diner at Momofoku Ko who "thought nothing of subtly raising her iPhone and snapping a picture of her shaved foie." Says the diner: "It just seemed very casual at Ko." This woman already knows she's an embarrassment, according to the Times: "She takes photos of her plates constantly, sometimes to the annoyance of her spouse, a chef."
• The Ko employee who "slapped down" the aforementioned diner, mortifying her so greatly that she would only speak to NYT reporter Helene Stapinski on the condition of anonymity... for a story about food photography.
• David Chang, Momofoku titan who instructs his employees to publicly shame diners that just want to take a photo of their meal.
• Diners at Thomas Keller's famed Per Se, who Stapinski reports took so many photos at one meal that "flashes were going off left and right, bouncing off the expansive windows overlooking Columbus Circle." YOU'RE AT PER SE, JUST ENJOY YOUR MEAL.
• Moe Issa, owner of Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare, who has also banned photography. "Some people are arrogant about it," he said. "They don't understand why. But we explain that it's one big table and we want the people around you to enjoy their meal."
• If you don't already think Bouley or Issa are the worst, maybe you will now that you know that the two will provide pre-snapped photos of meals to diners.
• Valery Rizzo, who teaches a class in iPhone photography in Bushwick. I'm just going to repeat that one a few more times: Valery Rizzo, who teaches a class in iPhone photography in Bushwick. Valery Rizzo, who teaches a class in iPhone photography in Bushwick. Valery Rizzo, who teaches a class in iPhone photography in Bushwick. What kind of things can you learn at the class? "No. 1 rule is no flash," she said. "A lot of food photos are hideous because of the flash." Ah. UPDATE: Ms. Rizzo, or someone claiming to be her, has responded in the comments:
  

  Gee thanks Gawker for adding such a statement about me on the internet for the world to see every time they google my name. That is the last time I will speak to a NYT reporter. Did you ever stop to think that maybe the reporter put words in my mouth and made me sound like someone other than myself. I don't know the person who is described in this one paragraph in this article and certainly never said "thinks the trend has crossed a line. Tired of seeing uncentered, flash-marred photos of indistinguishable glop" I don't even no what glop is. I love taking photos of food and other things around me with my phone and have nothing against it. I was asked to teach a class about food photography with the iphone and I did, simple as that. Won't do that again either. You should really stop and think before you make such a harsh statement about someone publicly. Thanks, Valery

• Jordy Trachtenberg, who runs the blog Ramentology. He has snapped a photo of every bowl of ramen he's eaten in the past two years. Of restaurants that ban photography, he says: "It's shocking," he said. "Is that even legal?"

BONUS OPTIONS:

• Helene Stapinski for writing this story
• Me, for writing this post

[via NYT, h/t Willy Staley, image via Shutterstock]

It would be really nice if there was no use for this headline, but here we are. Men in power at religious institutions can still be gross, awful, perverted people — though that often seems to be inherent to "men in power."

• In New York, Nechemya Weberman, "an esteemed religious counselor in New York City's ultra-orthodox Jewish community" was sentenced to 103 years in prison after being convicted in December of 59 counts of sex abuse. The charges stem from his sustained molestation of a girl who was ordered by her school to consult him after questioning her faith. Weberman, pictured above, molested the girl, who is now 18, starting when she was 12 until she was 15. The girl has not been named, but her family was reportedly "harassed and ostracized" throughout the trial, and several men were arrested after attempting to bribe the accuser and her husband to drop the case. (More on people deeming the institution to be more important than the accused in a minute.) Despite the justice department dropping the hammer on Weberman, many in the community still believe that he is innocent. One letter to the judge said that jailing the convicted child abuser would mean "a loss of great magnitude for our family, in particular, to mankind in general." Even after the sentencing, Weberman's attorney took the opportunity to shame the accuser and cast doubt on claims of sexual abuse by any woman, calling the accuser "a petulant, calculating liar." But I'm sure he's a delightful man
• Let's switch coasts and religions, but remember that nothing can supersede the need for a religious institution to exist and prosper. CBS News reported tonight that the Catholic Church in Los Angeles conspired for decades to protect priests it knew were sexually abusing children. Documents released today show conversations between then-archbishop Cardinal Roger Mahoney and chief advisor on sex abuse (...) Monsignor Thomas Curry regarding church officials that were abusing kids. The two made sure to keep those they knew were molesting boys away from the church — just so that the church wouldn't be sued, mind you — but never alerted police.

[via AP, CBS News, image via AP]