[Drolefille]

I'm sorry, I thought you said you had sources, not Cervantes. Reading Mark Twain only helps you understand the truth behind the fiction if you have some background knowledge of what it behind the fiction. Since I have a copy of Don Quixote relatively accessible I will flip through but color me unimpressed with your "sources." Partially burned books, that you can't remember the names of? Textbooks which conveniently don't exist? You're talking as if you've amassed a great expertise on the subject and you give, not peer reviewed research but literature?



Child abuse does indeed occur everywhere, there is no higher incidence of it within the Church than there is within the schools, etc. However the Church has culpability in the fact that people with authority "covered up" rather than ousted abusers. Not that they may not have thought they were doing good, but clearly they were not. The Church does not, nor has it, condoned child abuse.

None of this, however, addresses your previous claims which are, so far as I can see, unsubstantiated. This leads me to claim that EE-BO was, 200+years ago, the head of a large child prostitution ring. If you would read Oliver! (The libretto to the musical, not the original Dickens) you would get a hint of this.

I hope you understand this is not some sort of rabid attack on you, but a serious request for sources on a topic I'd like to learn more about. Not read Spanish literature trying to make up the historical background that might somehow, if you squint, have something to do with what you're claiming.