Jan. 25, 2015
Q: You said that Mr. Bob made spaghetti at the day care…. Now, when did Mr. Bob say that there was poop in the spaghetti?
A: After we, um, ate it.
Q: All right. Did – did you ever have to eat poop at the day care?
A: No.
Q: Okay. Did anybody try and make you eat poop at the day care?
A: Yes.
Q: Who?
A: Mr. Bob.
Q: Tell me about it.
A: I don’t remember it.
Q: You don’t remember it?
A: No.
Q: Well, how do you know Mr. Bob tried to do it?
A: What?
Q: Did somebody tell you about it?
A: No.
Q: Okay. Well, then tell me how Mr. Bob tried to make you eat poop.
A: Um, he told me, um, to eat it.
Q: Okay. Where was it?
A: I forgot.
Q: You forgot. Well, was it in Ms. Shelly’s room?
A: No.
Q: Was it in the kitchen?
A: Yes.
Q: Okay. Well, did he make other kids eat poop while you were there?
A: Yes.
Q: Okay. Well, um, what happened when they ate it?
A: I don’t know.
– From defense attorney Jeffrey Miller’s cross-examination of a child witness in the trial of Bob Kelly
This exchange represents only a tiny fraction of the 7-year-old girl’s testimony, which stretched over two days and included similarly incoherent references to Kelly and other defendants having raped her, urinated in her mouth, threatened to kill her parents, sodomized her with pencils and sewing needles, taken her on boat and truck rides, forced her to witness the killing and burial of babies and small animals…..
How funny and trivial such childish imaginings would seem, if only the jury’s gullibility hadn’t sent Kelly to prison for six years. “The children were convincing,” insisted rogue juror Dennis T. Ray.