Child sex abuse center hires professor who faced backlash over pedophile comments

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The hire comes about six months after Old Dominion University announced that Allyn Walker would be stepping down as an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice.

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resigned from a Virginia university after saying it wasn’t necessarily immoral for adults to be sexually attracted to kids“We are excited to share that Allyn Walker, PhD, will be joining the Moore Center as a postdoctoral fellow on May 25,” the Moore Center for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse in BaltimoreThe hire comes about six months after Old Dominion University announced that the 34-year-old would be stepping down as an assistant professor of sociology and criminal justice.

“My scholarship aims to prevent child sexual abuse,” Walker, who is transgender, said in a statement at the time.“That research was mischaracterized by some in the media and online, partly on the basis of my trans identity. As a result, multiple threats were made against me and the campus community generally,” he wrote.

“I want to thank Old Dominion University for giving me the opportunity to teach and to conduct my research, and the ODU Department of Public Safety for monitoring the threats against me and the community,” Walker added. The Moore Center’s decision to hire Walker was slammed by critics, including Michael Salter, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia and president-elect of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation,

 

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