Ironies

• Florida Rep. Bob Allen was a co-sponsor of 2007 legislation to increase the penalty for public lewdness and indecent exposure, such as trolling for sex partners in public restrooms (upping the crime from a misdemeanor to a felony). The bill did not pass, which was lucky for Rep. Allen, who was arrested in July in a men's room in Titusville when undercover officers said he entered and exited three times in the space of a few minutes, peered over a restroom stall and offered oral sex for $20. • After a 25-year-old woman was accused of murdering her father and sister and wounding her mother in July in Sydney, Australia, authorities revealed that she had been diagnosed with a psychotic illness in 2006. However, she had been discouraged from seeking psychiatric treatment by her parents because they are Scientologists, who by doctrine reject psychiatry and psychotropic drug treatment. ¦