SRS, why don't you refrain from swearing so inarticulately on a public folk music forum? Your language is offensive, your attitude all the more so. Rage seems to be simmering barely contained here, and words spoken with such mindless fury rarely communicate anything other than personal pain...yours, not that of the others who have been hurt.

I'm utterly amazed at the depth of ill will here. The lashing out will do nobody any good whatsoever.   

Time for a Kumbaya moment, folks.

I am personally sorry for whatever pain Bob was in and for whatever pain he may have inflicted. At this point all we can do is to hope for the best for those he may have injured...which happens to include his widow, Haley, whom he certainly injured. A bit of compassion tempered by a willingness to accept and hopefully understand that some folks never figure out how to deal with their demons in a healthy way would go a long way.   

And no, I do not condone child molestation one iota. I have four wonderful kids, and I'd have gone ballistic if I thought any of them had been betrayed by an adult. I've done a number of prison gigs...San Quentin, Soledad, Terminal Island, etc...doing PA and recording systems as well as helping Mimi Farina with some Bread and Roses gigs, and I recognize that some folks "in the system" are irretrievably damaged. I'm very glad they're behind bars; may they stay there 'til death.

I also know that there are a lot of folks who are walking among us who should be locked up and that it seems that child molesters manage to stay free for a very long time because of their psychological power over the victims. And sometimes those folks "cheat the hangman", so to speak, as seems to be the case here with Bob. He had a massive ego. I don't think that ego would drive him to suicide just because of a diminuation in his chops. At 70% he still would have had more chops than just about anyone. What he did with the chops is another matter.

As for what is being said here in the SC community; I'll just say that what I've heard is from folks very much in touch with those at the center of this whole thing. If they want to state what they've heard from the sources, fine, but right now seems to be a time to leave some folks in privacy.

Rick Turner