Reporters, journalists, and the monkeys with typewriters who work for the Daily Mail — can I put in a plea today to not take horrible stories and make them exponentially worse? Yeah, I’m talking, again, about sexual abuse — this time in the case of male child.

BuzzFeed’s Alan White took the story wide on Monday, with a report first detailed in the local Swindon Advertiser. Here’s the first line of that unbylined Advertiser piece: “A babysitter who had sex with her 11-year-old charge has been spared jailafter the lad’s dad, who she had also had a fling with, said his son regarded it as a ‘notch on his belt.”

An story about an 11 year-old in England shows how faulty headlines can get