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ON DECEMBER 8, 1977 the district attorney Garrett Byrne from Suffolk County in Massachusetts, which includes all of Boston and three smaller surrounding communities, called a press conference to announce the indictment of 24 men on multiple charges of statutory rape involving boys ages eight to thirteen. The men, according to the DA, had allegedly lured the boys with pot, money, and games, and then raped and photographed the victims. The DA claimed the men were part of a sex ring that was just the "tip of the iceberg" and that there would be more indictments in what was an ongoing investigation. Most of the men were arrested prior to the press conference. Several ...