Ken Lanning's college-age daughter recently suggested to him that something good may come out of the Penn State University scandal in that more people will be made aware of how acquaintance child molesters operate.
He told her he was a bit too jaded to believe that.
Lanning, a retired FBI profiler who wrote the analysis many police use in investigating child sex offenders, has seen all the big cases come and go.
Yet each time a new one surfaces, it floods the media for a while and everyone seems shocked.