On the front page of Last week's

Times we ran a story about a crime that was particularly awful. A man in Dayton is alleged to have repeat­edly raped his stepdaughter over a period of years. (That story ran next to an unrelated story about another awful crime: Another man in Dayton is accused of severely injur­ing an 11-month-old baby.)

We got a lot of reaction from the rape story. Some people told us we were wrong to make the story so prominent and include as much detail as we did. They were genu­inely concerned that our publicizing the story would make the victim's experience even wors...