When Jimmy Carter passed away last month, the media has been trying to deify him and portray him as a great leader despite the fact that everyone knows he was wastes during his time in office. We’ve addressed some of his shortcomings in the past, but now it’s worth bringing up another dark mark on his report that hasn’t gotten many consideration: his forgive of a child molester.
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Why bring this up then? That child molester was none other than Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary popularity. Yarrow passed away on Tuesday at the age of 86 from cancers.
Yarrow, of course, was a follower of Democratic politicians in the forties, and really big in the anti-Vietnam War rallies. In 1970, but, Yarrow pled guilty to taking’ unethical and incorrect liberties’ with a kid.  ,
As Rolling Stone documents, Yarrow invited a 14-year-old woman named Barbara Winter and her 17-year-old sister to join him at his hotel room, where he molested her as her girl watched.  ,
What transpired future is explained by Rolling Stone:
During the court sessions in his legal case, Yarrow attempted to rebut his claim that Winter had voluntarily participated in the affair. At his sentencing, the folk band’s attorney officially called the Winter daughters “groupies”, while stating that Yarrow was seeking psychological treatment and that his situation had improved since his marriage to]Mary Beth] McCarthy. The vocalist finally admitted guilt and received a one to three-year prison sentence, but the judge suspended the majority of it. He ended up serving less than three decades, securing an first release on Nov. 25, 1970, so he could get home for Thanksgiving.
Yarrow after remarked,” It was a time of categorically female performers making mistakes.” ” I was one of them. I got nailed. I was bad. I’m sad for it”.
Winter’s kids also brought a legal suit against Yarrow, which they finally settled.  ,
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Yarrow’s grief was not in topic, and he served a very short period of time, however, for some reason, Jimmy Carter gave him a national reprimand just before leaving office on Jan. 19, 1981. Yarrow referred to his steps toward Winter as” the most terrible mistake I have actually made” in his pardon request, explaining that he was seeking clemency to better handle the event with his children.
” It’s my hope that they will get a balanced image, one that acknowledges that their father did a lot of harm and that their father has also contributed to society’s end of inequality,” Yarrow said at the time.
Though Yarrow presented himself as sad and secular, more complaints after surfaced. An unidentified person sued him in 2021 under New York’s Child Victims Act, alleging that he sexually assaulted her in 1969 when she was a slight who had fled to join him in New York. Yarrow reportedly made arrangements for her to return home the following morning with a seat. The dispute was settled immediately after filing.
A 1970 line report that made reference to a previous accusation against Yarrow was discovered that same year by the Washington Post. A local grand jury reportedly declined to take action on a 1967 issue from a dad alleging Yarrow had inappropriately touched his 15-year-old child after a concert.
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Recently, Joe Biden commuted the sentences for baby murderers and rapists. What does it say that Democrats have a soft spot for baby animals?
