Go, Read: Kevin Melrose On The Ed Kramer Plea

The superior link-blogger Kevin Melrose has a smart write-up on yesterday's plea agreement taken by Dragon*Con co-founder Ed Kramer on charges related to child molestation. Apparently, Kramer maintains his innocence and the DA was worried about the cost of the prosecution and housing the apparently perpetually ailing prisoner.

The Kramer affair became an interesting story within comics and the other fan cultures served by the mega-successful Atlanta convention in that there was some fairly nasty butting of heads over whether or not the convention had any culpability for anything that Kramer did or should have been expected to pursue an end to that profitable partnership with greater speed and deliberation than they ended up being able to accomplish. I would imagine that many of the people that pursued greater attention to Kramer's legal troubles feel vindicated by the guilty plea and dismayed by the lack of jail time in that plea. I would imagine that many of those whose primary advocacy was for not taking Kramer's bad deeds out on the convention feel satisfied this has reached a point of closure.
 
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