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I have retained counsel, but his probes have been thwarted by verbal claims of national security and subsequent need for secrecy, which is just preposterous. If you have children, you know that they have infatuations. The McGuinness boy is only one of, I would guess, ten lads who have been drawn to my daughter. Those youthful attractions are as fleeting as sunshine in our city. The best thing, if one disapproves, is silence. Forbidding and reprimand fixes such passing activities the way a photograph freezes a dropping stone. Let me, though, not be hypocritical and also say a positive word about the young man this is really all about. He is NOT like his father. There is no trace of anger, irreverence, nor sullied character in him. His "notorious" essays, natural poet that he is, have all been about love, fair play, mutual respect of all citizens for each other. He recites Milton, Goldsmith, Wilde, and Joyce verbatim. Such leanings are not seditious, but marvelous and, if anything, healing. You, we all, have to see past our own hatreds to be free.As to the facts of the matter, my daughter Katharine was given a simple request, by me, to purchase some baked goods from Drinn's. As you can easily determine, that bakery is near our home. She was grabbed by two men as she left with her packages. One shook her severely causing her to drop her purchase which the other deliberately trampled. She was bruised and had lacerations from her beating.