Last week, Stephen Collins “confessed” to molesting three children more than a decade ago. His “confession” was to People Magazine, not the authorities. Because someone told Collins that his problem is merely one of image, not criminal, prosecutable acts. That he needs a crisis manager, not a lawyer. Collins’ People Magazine confession was only one part of his attempt to explain his crimes – he also sat down with Katie Couric for a 20/20 exclusive. I’ll confess something – I couldn’t make it all the way through this video. Some of the quotes that came out of it just enraged me too much. God bless you if you can watch the whole thing and not have a rage-stroke.

You guys can talk about any part of this interview, but I just wanted to discuss a couple of points that profoundly disturbed me. One, Collins claims that when he was a child (between the ages of 10 and 15), a woman “repeatedly exposed herself to me.” If true, that’s a crime… but not an excuse. Many child molesters were victims of molestation, true. But many victims of childhood assault manage to avoid the cycle as well. It’s like Collins is asserting his own victimhood as an excuse/pass for molesting children when he got to adulthood.

When he gets to talking about the instances when he molested children, it’s like he wants to be praised for only physically touching and molesting one 10-year-old girl one time. Like, he deserves extra credit for only doing it once. He blames that one instance on “poor impulse control, 25-year-old arrogance, really lousy judgment, an outsized need for attention [and] the effects of some distorted thinking that I had sexually due to the things that have happened to me in my childhood.” And then he goes on to describe two more incidents (CRIMINAL ACTS) when he exposed himself to a 13 year old and then a 14 year old. He claims 1994 was the last time he molested a child. Bulls—t. He remembers these moments so clearly. He relives them every day. He’s done this so many times.

One of the worst parts is when he talks about his “faith” and how his church helped him overcome his criminal acts (except he never uses the words “criminal acts” of course). He says: “In the church, it’s actually one of the things I love about the church … Christ says in so many ways, ‘Bring me that which about you is broken. Bring it.’ And, most people are broken in some way.” Yes, because using your faith as a catch-all excuse to molest children always works out.

And finally, when he’s asked if he’s a pedophile, he says he doesn’t fit the “clinical or dictionary definition” and “I am not. A pedophile is someone who is mainly or wholly attracted to children. I’m not.” Dude… you’re confessing to molesting three children. Why make this a semantic argument?

Overall, this whole thing is like traveling through bizarro-world. I can’t believe 20/20, Yahoo and People Magazine gave Collins a platform to spew his insanity, his narcissism and his horses—t. He even tries to blame his ex-wife, like if she hadn’t recorded him and divorced him, none of this would have ever come out and isn’t that the real crime? Jesus.

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