"To get to his job at a Eastside bagel shop, Joseph Aqui walks through the early-morning rain, past houses where toys are strewed across lawns, indicating that women may live inside.

These are Aqui's known triggers, the things that led him to commit more than two dozen rapes and attempted rapes, court records show."

No, no, no, no, no. The presence of toys on lawns didn't "lead" Joseph Aqui to rape two dozen women. His choice to rape two dozen women "led" him to rape two dozen women. There's certainly an argument to be had about whether sex offenders who've committed as many crimes as Aqui should be released into society virtually unmonitored, but it's hard to even begin that discussion when the act of rape is portrayed as passive. It's a fine line between toys causing rape and another common construction: "alcohol/the late hour/the way she was dressed/the fact that she's flirted led her to get raped."