This is a tremendously moving, sometimes horrifying, and even a little inspiring story. Also truly well-written.

I saw Professor Lessig’s post about it this morning and was curious what those ghosts might be. Naturally once I waited long enough, the document came to me in that inimitable RSS kind of way, via John Battelle’s Searchblog.

I won’t endeavor to say anything meaningful about the experience these men had - I don’t know that there’s anything meaningful to be said aside from “I’m sorry,” but I will note that as is his wont, Lessig has once again enlightened me and made meaning from meaninglessness with this quote:

The real evil isn’t the Hitler. The evil is the good German. The evil is all those people who could’ve just picked up the goddamn telephone and stopped it.

The story: Lawrence Lessig and John Hardwicke Fight Sexual Abuse and the American Boychoir School