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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

This gay couple’s son, 6, was accosted by a stranger calling them pedophiles. Why did no one help?

Robbie Pierce

Robbie Pierce and his husband embarked on a long train ride along the California coast with the couple’s two young children for a spring break trip.

Their six-year-old son was proud to have used the downstairs restroom near their seats by himself, twice, but he refused to go by himself a third time.

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