2/17/11 Boston Globe article about revelation in Senator Brown's memoir: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/02/17/brown_describes_childhood_of_beatings_sexual_abuse/?page=full

2/21/11 On Point with Tom Ashbrook show on NPR:
"Republican Sen. Scott Brown opens up about his childhood sexual abuse. He’s not alone. We’ll have the tough conversation about male sexual abuse." http://onpoint.wbur.org/2011/02/21/sexual-abuse-brown - A caller describes being abused as a 9-year old boy by 2 female neighbors.

Background on Brown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brown

This is the only major politician who met with Fathers and Families about their family court reform efforts, and (if I rightly recall) the only one endorsed by them. http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/?p=5687

Scott Brown ran as a republican against experienced democrat Martha Coakley, Mass attorney general, and won in a surprise upset for a strongly democratic state.

Coakley made her career as prosecutor for the fraudulent Fells Acres Daycare scandal - a witch hunt against supposed satanic child sexual abuse that never occurred. Gerald Amirault was falsely imprisoned for 18 years because of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Amirault

Reason magazine: http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/15/the-incredible-incompetence-of

"As for Coakley's record as a prosecutor and district attorney, it inspires even less confidence in Massachusetts voters. As the head of a child abuse and sex crimes unit and later as district attorney, Martha Coakley was a strong proponent of using discredited techniques of "recovering memory" of past child abuse.

As a result, innocent men like Gerald Amirault, a former daycare operator who, along with his mother and sister, was accused of molesting children in his care, was released a long 18 years after his conviction"... "After the case collapsed, and long after the family had been convicted, Coakley personally lobbied then-Governor Jane Swift to block Gerald Amirault's release."

Scott Brown on sex offender laws, and strengthening the prison system: http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Scott_Brown_Crime.htm

Quite a lot of issues being aired here.