"We know he's OK physically, but we don't know how he is mentally, " Betty Jean Ransbottom, the boy's grandmother, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

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This is in marked contrast to how the Catholic Church, several Orthodox Jewish yeshivas, the Boy Scouts, and numerous boarding schools, public schools, orphanages, and other institutions have reacted when it became clear that male children were abused under their care.

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This is how the Bellas of the world actually experience their lives, torn between the cool, sensitive boy from the strange, affluent family and the dishy athletic boy from across the tracks.

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