Gawker collects letters written to a court by NY-DC elites — including Clinton scourge and current Baylor University president Kenneth Starr and retired ABC News anchor Charles Gibson — pleading for sentencing leniency for a confessed and convicted child molester who was part of the Beltway power elite circle. Excerpt:

Another victim, Laura Gill, “testified that Kloman pinned her down and assaulted her in the basement of his home while his family was upstairs” when she was 14 years old. The rest of Kloman’s victims were the same age or younger. The youngest, who was 12 at the time Kloman molested her, sparked an investigation in 2011 when as an adult she discovered Kloman was substitute-teaching at her daughter’s Maryland grade school.

Yet Starr, a retired federal judge and former Solicitor General who single-mindedly pursued a criminal investigation into President Bill Clinton sparked by Clinton’s sexual behavior with an adult, signed a letter to Kloman’s sentencing judge arguing that “community service” would be a more appropriate punishment for someone who repeatedly sexually assaulted children entrusted to him by their parents.

Because Kloman was a well-connected teacher at a proving ground to the capital’s elite—the private Potomac School in MacLean, Va.—who was liked by the parents of the children he didn’t sexually abuse, he received a bizarre outpouring of support from some extremely powerful Washingtonians, many of them begging the judge not to send Kloman to prison.

Christopher Kloman’s appears to have been an effective life of pedagogy, sadly impaired by illness. Or something. Not one of those tawdry crimes that People Unlike Us commit. Why, Mrs. Starr writes that that Mr. Kloman “could not have been more gracious or friendly.” Nice people don’t do vile and criminal things? Huh?