It ended without charges but he was upset when the family did not want to resume contact.

Having been involved with several little girls of that age, I know how They think. Yes, I DO know. If the little girl was anything like normal little girls involved with a loving father figure, She loved him back.

But, you see, the parents didn't understand that. Most of England didn't, either.

They say that Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet had a sad ending. So, too, did Neil Wilkes and his Little Lover.

O true apothecary!

Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.

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Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.

Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd.

For never was a story of more woe

Than this of Neil and... well, you know.