[Ads-l] NYTimes.com: "sexually assault," infinitive

[Wilson Gray]

"A young seminary student from Ohio flew across the United States on Friday
in pursuit of a goal he had spent weeks discussing online in explicit
detail: finding a baby, either through adoption or cash purchase, _to
sexually assault_."

http://goo.gl/5t8uqa

Or is this merely ordinary splitting of an infinitive?

Youneverknow.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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