{"id":45,"date":"2015-12-22T13:23:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T13:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2023-12-11T02:53:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T02:53:52","slug":"archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?page_id=45","title":{"rendered":"Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231201Slide1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231201Slide1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231201Slide1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231201Slide1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231201Slide1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231201Slide1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/231201Slide1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Archive of posts on this site, by year<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">2021<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3348\">Will a court pay attention?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 13, 2021 If I had harbored even an iota of doubt about Junior Chandler's innocence, it would've been vaporized by the podcast episode below. Most dramatically, the Duke Wrongful&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">2020<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3329\">&#8216;I walked into FREEDOM&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 22, 2020 A burst of sunshine in these grim times. A note arrived today from Little Rascals Day Care case exoneree Bob Kelly: \"Today, 25 years ago, because of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">2019<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3286\">Betsy Kelly\u2019s cruelly long and ugly road to freedom<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 27, 2019 Betsy Kelly is paroled from the Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh. In January she accepted a plea of \"no contest\" and a sentence of seven years&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3282\">What assistant AG \u2018found interesting\u2019 about Elle article<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 26, 2019 I\u2019ve previously cited here and here Elle magazine\u2019s deeply reported 1993 article on the Little Rascals case. You can read it here. But I had somehow overlooked&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3274\">Time for Truth and Reconciliation Commission<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Three years ago a former Edenton resident told me: \u201cThe town leaders still have some things to answer for about Little Rascals, and I suspect that until there is a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3256\">Child-witnesses, now in their 30s, reject call to speak up<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 7, 2019 For those seeking to understand the Little Rascals Day Care case one particularly intriguing question remains: How do the former child-witnesses, now well into their 30s, look&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3245\">Death noted: Former publisher of Edenton paper<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 9, 2019 Pete Manning, 89, died Feb. 21 at his home in Edenton. Before retiring, Manning worked more than 50 years at the Chowan Herald, most prominently as publisher.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3241\">Edenton anything but eager to make amends for Little Rascals<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 11, 2019 \u201cSuch stories aren\u2019t proudly passed down from one generation to the next. Unlike some small Southern towns, which often ignore the troublesome elements of their past, Batesburg-Leesville&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3235\">Dr. Summit was anything but objective about McMartin<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 8, 2019 Second of two parts At the core of the recent McMartin expose \u201cThey Must Be Monsters: A Modern-Day Witch Hunt\u201d is the authors\u2019 meticulous tracing of how&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3229\">Psychiatrist\u2019s theory bolstered day-care prosecutions<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 2, 2019 First of two parts The name of Dr. Roland Summit, key supporter of the McMartin Preschool prosecution, no longer resonates in psychiatry, but the \u201cchild sexual abuse&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3215\">Expert on day-care panic adds papers to Duke Law archive<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 11, 2019 The Little Rascals Day Care Case archive at Duke Law School is about to get some impressive company. Mary deYoung, perhaps the most prolific researcher and chronicler&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3206\">Memphis paper first to link \u2018satanic ritual abuse\u2019 cases<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 4, 2019 In January 1988 the Memphis Commercial Appeal published a 36-page special section recapping its recent series, \u201cJustice Abused: A 1980s Witch Hunt\u201d by Tom Charlier and Shirley&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">2018<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3100\">Therapists, don\u2019t commingle your forensic, therapeutic roles<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 18, 2018 \u201cTed Cross, a senior research specialist at the University of Illinois School of Social Work, [said] separation of the two interventions \u2013 forensic and therapeutic \u2013 is&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3096\">Moral panics, strange to begin with, also make strange bedfellows<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 14, 2018 \u201cAmerica has a long history of episodic moral panics in which self-styled experts, sensationalistic journalists and public officials used emotionally charged language and a barrage of (often&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3093\">Convicting an innocent man sure works up an appetite<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 26, 2018 \u201cIt's one of the most telling shots in Ofra Bikel's painstaking investigation into the Little Rascals child-abuse scandal in small-town North Carolina: As a convicted perpetrator [Bob&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3089\">It\u2019s not mistakes that obstruct justice. It\u2019s the refusal to admit them.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 21, 2018 \u201cCops, district attorneys, defense attorneys, and judges make mistakes all the time. Mistakes don\u2019t obstruct justice. Justice is obstructed by refusing to acknowledge and rectify mistakes, and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3080\">McMartin Preschool acquittal did little to stem spread of hysteria<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 18, 2018 \u201cDespite the acquittal in [the McMartin Preschool case], the hysteria kept raging there and nationally; mainstream news still gave it credence, police still made arrests, prosecutors still&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3074\">Where do you stand, Edenton, on the Little Rascals case?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 17, 2018 In recent years the Little Rascals Day Care case, probably the most significant event in Edenton in the 20th century, seems to have been a taboo subject&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3070\">Today\u2019s anonymous fan mail: \u2018You should be investigated yourself\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 4, 2018 \u201cOnly a pedophile would attempt to justify other pedophiles. If you didn't follow the case in the news at the time or attend the trial, how do&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3061\">Child sex-abuse workshops work their mischief, no matter where<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 16, 2018 \u201cEighteen years ago this month, Peter Ellis left prison. He ought never to have been there in the first place. \u201c[In 1993] Ellis was convicted of child&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3054\">Prosecutors cling to \u2018child sexual-abuse accommodation syndrome\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 9, 2018 \u201cBoth prosecution and defense [in a trial in Palo Alto, Calif.] called expert witnesses to testify to \u2018child sexual-abuse accommodation syndrome\u2019.... \u201cRoland Summit, a southern California psychiatrist,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3048\">\u2018Why hadn\u2019t any of the suspects copped a plea?\u2019 he wondered<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 2, 2018 \u201cIn August 1983 [Manhattan Beach, Calif., police chief Harry] Kuhlmeyer was presented with the McMartin Preschool case. Therapists and medical doctors had identified dozens of McMartin children&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3044\">Maybe those day-care crimes just never happened?\u00a0<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 22, 2018 \u201cSex offenders have a relatively low rate of committing the same sex crime after being released from prison. Yet policymakers often base policies on rearrest rates or&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3035\">\u2018They constantly asked him the same thing over and over again&#8230;.\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 12, 2018 \u201c[Bob Kelly\u2019s] defense contended that the children's allegations were just the responses of suggestible youngsters eager to please the interrogators who were urging them to disclose abuse.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3032\">Remembering when \u2018sketchiest of evidence or none at all\u2019 was plenty<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 8, 2018 \u201cBecause [this movement] was about sex and children, hysteria was not far behind. Before long, an industry of feminist and Christian therapists and self-help writers were claiming&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3028\">\u2018Moral panics: they may begin with a legitimate societal concern&#8230;.\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 4, 2018 \u201cSexual harassment or assault, by contrast [with the Communism scare in Hollywood], obviously warrants discipline at the very least and criminal prosecution wherever appropriate. But then and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">2017<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3023\">\u2018Little Rascals case is a study of female\/maternal vengeance\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 12, 2017 \u201cSadly, we've grown accustomed to gross miscarriages of justice in cases involving minorities and the indigent. Appalled as we are by such legal travesties we rationalize it&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3020\">\u2018Believe the children\u2019 (after they\u2019ve been interrogated into submission)<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 10, 2017 \u201cControversy over the credibility of children\u2019s testimony has congealed into a debate between those who demand that we \u2018believe the children\u2019 no matter how outlandish their allegations&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3014\">Charles Manson set stage for fear of hippies, then of witches<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 5, 2017 \u201cThe Manson Family\u2019s ritualistic murders in 1969 triggered the ini4al stages of na4onal cult hysteria.... \u201cManson made hippies scary for awhile, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3004\">\u2018Mindhunter\u2019 series misguided in choice of role model<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 19, 2017 \u201cThough \u2018Mindhunter\u2019 at times seems like a fictitious nightmare, the new Netflix series is very much rooted in reality. Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) is based on real-life&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2999\">\u2018I heard a so-called expert describe vast networks of these cults\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 15, 2017 \u201cRemember, [this fictional child sex abuse trial] happened during an odd time in criminal justice, when the public was convinced there were satanic cults all over the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2988\">Esteemed psychiatrist analyzes Trump \u2013 and Junior Chandler<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 18, 2017 Allen Frances, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Duke University, has been generating lots of attention\u00a0with his provocative and important new book, \u201cTwilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2982\">UNC psychologist still thinks kids aren\u2019t suggestible<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 10, 2017 \u201cWith no conclusive DNA evidence, medical evidence of penetration or an eyewitness to the alleged assault, both prosecution and defense relied on expert witnesses to speak to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2973\">Donald Trump has Harvey. Nancy Lamb had Floyd.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 27, 2017 In 1999, when the last charges against Bob Kelly were dismissed, here\u2019s how Joseph Neff of the News &amp; Observer described the scene: \u201cThe prosecutors in the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2969\">At center of case: disgruntled mom, newly indoctrinated policewoman<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 21, 2017 \u201cIt's impossible to say what might have happened had Jane Mabry's child not been slapped, or if Brenda Toppin had not just been to the sexual abuse&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2962\">Toppin\u2019s interview notes: \u2018Just a lot of extra paper\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 1, 2017 \u201cIn the McMartin case, the defense used videotapes of therapists' interviews with the children to suggest that the idea of abuse had been implanted. \u201c[Ofra] Bikel says,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2861\">Why Mike Easley had to deny errors in Little Rascals trials<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 19, 2017 \u201cOur criminal justice famously presumes that every accused person is innocent until proven guilty. But once a conviction is obtained, that presumption is turned on its head.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2854\">How did prosecutors let go \u201816 psychotic, baby-killing pedophiles\u2019?\u00a0<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 3, 2017 How did prosecutors let go \u201816 psychotic, baby-killing pedophiles\u2019? \u201cAn early indicator of the bizarre and fickle nature of the [Little Rascals] prosecution was that in all,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2848\">Robin Byrum, youngest of Edenton Seven, recalls brutality at hands of prosecution<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 29, 2017 Robin Byrum,\u00a0not long out of high school and pregnant with her first child, went to work at Little Rascals Day Care Center in September 1988. A year&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2843\">\u2018Satanic ritual abuse\u2019 abuse believers: The problem wasn\u2019t their IQ<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 28, 2017 \u201cThere is this idea that people of the 1980s were just not very bright or really superstitious\u00a0or something like that. Back then, the people who questioned it&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2837\">French had incisive title for \u2018Innocence Lost\u2019: \u2018A Judicial Harassment\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 18, 2017 \u201cC'est un reportage accablant sur le syst\u00e8me judiciaire am\u00e9ricain.... Ce pourrait \u00eatre simplement l'histoire d'une erreur judiciaire dont aucun syst\u00e8me p\u00e9nal au monde n'est exempt, h\u00e9las. C'est&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2833\">View from exoneree: Jurors, be skeptical about professionals\u2019 claims<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 14, 2017 \"In wrongful convictions, the jury at some point was misled, either by false testimony or bad evidence. It's the unspoken piece that the jurors \u2013 the public&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2828\">Press decides to let Sir Edward Heath rest in peace<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 6, 2017 \u201cBeginning with the McMartin preschool case in 1984... much of the media accepted without question fantastic claims brought by police, parents and prosecutors. But by the early&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2823\">View from Jamaica: \u2018Public screamings\u2019 echoed McMartin<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 31, 2017 \u201cA few months ago, I started receiving photographs of young men on my phone. They were accompanied by frantic messages identifying these men as being responsible for&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2818\">Another bumper harvest for National Registry of Exonerations<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 20, 2017 \u201cAmerica saw another record year for the number of prisoners being exonerated, according to the National Registry of Exonerations,\u00a0a project of University of California Irvine Newkirk Center&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2813\">Some journals getting better at correcting mistakes<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 9, 2017 \u201cAs a result of complaints, [scientific] journals have been posting notices of problems with Dr. [Carlo] Croce\u2019s\u00a0papers at a quickening pace. From just a handful of notices&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2806\">\u2018Sybil\u2019 came clean, but psychiatrist wasn\u2019t interested<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\u201c[Shirley Ardell] Mason was the real person behind the 1970s best seller \u2018Sybil,\u2019\u00a0which sold 6 million copies with its riveting account of an abused woman inhabited by 16 different personalities.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2802\">Letters claiming wrongful conviction couldn\u2019t be true \u2013 could they?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 22, 2017 \u201c[When Rich Rosen,\u00a0Theresa Newman\u00a0and Jim Coleman\u00a0began planning the state\u2019s first innocence project], not everyone agreed their work was worth doing. To many... colleagues, in North Carolina and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2797\">As Indiana governor, future VP let request gather dust<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 12, 2017 \u201cOne day after Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb pardoned him for a 1996 armed robbery he did not commit, [Keith] Cooper, 49, said he was grateful to the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2792\">\u2018Satanic ritual abuse\u2019: A product of its era\u2019s mythology<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 3, 2017 \u201cRecall that after the 1970s there ensued a decade of moral panic over child sex abuse \u2013 including so-called satanic ritual abuse. Off-camera in The Exorcist\u00a0[1973], the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2787\">When the people we trust can\u2019t be trusted<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 25, 2017 \u201cWhy is there such a cultural bias toward stories of abuse \u2013 and especially toward grotesque\u00a0and absurd tales, even when there is no reliable evidence that any&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2781\">For child witnesses, life was changed forever<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 4, 2017 \u201c[Richard Beck\u2019s \u2018Believe the Children\u2019]\u00a0is perhaps most poignant on the subject of the damage to the young people who acted as witnesses. \u2018Children as young as three&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2771\">Holdout jurors face \u2013 and often succumb to \u2013 relentless pressure<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 28, 2016 \u201cThe problem of juror pressure on a dissenting juror has long been known by defense attorneys and prosecutors. \u201cIn a National Center for State Courts project on&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">2016<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2771\">Holdout jurors face \u2013 and often succumb to \u2013 relentless pressure<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 28, 2016 \u201cThe problem of juror pressure on a dissenting juror has long been known by defense attorneys and prosecutors. \u201cIn a National Center for State Courts project on&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2762\">Fake news and \u2018satanic ritual abuse\u2019: Best friends forever!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 15, 2016 You probably haven\u2019t been asking Google to provide you with daily news alerts about \u201csatanic ritual abuse,\u201d but if you had ,\u00a0the popularity of fake news\u00a0would come&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2757\">From Trump to Pizzagate, Internet is geyser of malinformation<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 7, 2016 \u201cIf you do a Google search right now for \u2018McMartin preschool tunnels,\u2019 you will be inundated with \u2018studies\u2019 and \u2018reports\u2019 that \u2018prove\u2019 the tunnels did exist, and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2752\">Were tales any taller in Salem than in Edenton?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec, 4, 2016 \u201cThe testimony [in the Salem witch trials] is full of tall tales, unless you happen to believe \u2013 as one woman confessed, having vowed to tell the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2745\">Transgender movement compared to hysterias of 1980s and &#8217;90s<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 21, 2016 \u201cTransgenderism would refute the natural laws of biology and transmute human nature. The movement\u2019s philosophical foundation qualifies it as a popular delusion similar to the multiple-personality craze,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2741\">Prosecutors must recognize vulnerability to cognitive flaws<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 17, 2016 \u201cIt\u2019s no secret that we humans grant far too much confidence to our opinions. But when powerful people do this, the dangers compound. Zealotry replaces fair-mindedness. The&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2735\">Three centuries later, witch trials remain uncomfortably relevant<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 31, 2016 \u201cHistorical truths emerge only with time, after which they are ours, particularly on Halloween, to mangle. \u201cEarly on, the Salem witch trials disappeared from the record; a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2731\">APSAC to victims of its \u2018misguided ideas\u2019: Drop dead<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 26, 2016 Janet Rosenzweig, executive director of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, wasted no time kissing off my request that APSAC take responsibility\u00a0for the damage&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2724\">&#8230;.Is APSAC finally ready to apologize to wrongfully prosecuted victims?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 22, 2016 \u201cAt APSAC\u2019s June Colloquium, Paul J. Stern gave a presentation\u00a0that clearly\u00a0acknowledged your organization\u2019s role in fostering\u00a0the \u2018satanic ritual\u00a0abuse\u2019 day-care panic of\u00a0 the 1980s and early \u201990s. \u201cMr.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2721\">When Betsy Kelly was released from jail, much persecution still lay ahead<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 9, 2016 Five days after her bond was reduced from $1.8 million to $400,000, Betsy Kelly is released from jail. In January 1994 Kelly would accept a plea of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2718\">APSAC official acknowledges \u2018granddaddy of our \u201coops!\u201d\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 9, 2016 Paul J. Stern, recently retired prosecutor\u00a0in Snohomish County, Wash., has long served the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children as a board member and as&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2713\">At long last, is APSAC cracking the door to recantation?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 5, 2016 Richard Wexler\u2019s unequivocal recollection\u00a0of how the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children promoted the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d day-care panic made me curious about what APSAC&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2702\">APSAC\u2019s child-protection record doesn\u2019t inspire confidence<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 28, 2016 \u201cThe American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children [is] presenting a \u2018special issue\u2019 of one of its publications devoted to [Differential response]\u00a0\u2013 or rather, devoted to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2695\">Day-care panic rooted in more than sex-role changes<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 23, 2016 \u201cWe Believe the Children\u201d\u00a0offers a clear explanation of how a then-novel crusade for child welfare and a murk of neo-Freudian psychological theory together drove officials to find&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2688\">Johnny Small freed, now deserves pardon of innocence<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 14, 2016 \u201c[Chris] Mumma said she intends to request a pardon for [Johnny] Small from Gov. Pat McCrory. In order for Small to be compensated for the years he&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2681\">Emissaries from Raleigh bring kneejerk resistance to exoneration<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 11, 2016 \u201cI honestly don\u2019t understand not only how the Attorney General\u2019s Office felt it was necessary to fight us through a full week of hearing in this case,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2678\">Remember Dungeons &#038; Dragons \u2013 and \u2018satanic ritual abuse\u2019?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 9, 2016 \u201cStrange what we worry about when it comes to our children. A great deal of the culture-war politics of the 1980s consisted of theatrical wailing about threats&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2674\">Creepy clowns: today\u2019s version of \u2018satanic ritual abuse\u2019 cults?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 5, 2016 \u201cPolice say they are doing extra patrols in a Winston-Salem neighborhood after two children reported seeing a clown trying to lure kids into the woods with treats....&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2668\">Burgess\u2019s seminar paved way for Little Rascals prosecution<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 23, 2016 \u201cConnell School of Nursing Professor Ann Wolbert Burgess, a pioneer in the field of forensic nursing and an internationally recognized leader in the treatment of victims of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2663\">Kelly\u2019s jury was rife with problems not visible at beginning<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 19, 2016 The jury is empaneled in Farmville, N.C., where Bob Kelly\u2019s trial has been moved because of pretrial publicity in Edenton. Dennis T. Ray would turn out to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2658\">California taking seriously the misconduct of its prosecutors<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 13, 2016 \u201cA bill to increase criminal penalties for prosecutors who intentionally withhold or falsify evidence is headed to the [California] state Senate after being approved in committee. \u201cThe&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2653\">Assistant attorney general complains: \u2018Innocence is in vogue now\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 11, 2016 \u201c[North Carolina] Assistant Attorney General Jess Mekeel said [Johnny] Small's motion should be dismissed. \u201c\u00a0\u2018Innocence is in vogue now,\u2019 he told the judge, the Associated Press reported.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2647\">Perhaps N.Y. Times needs some new experts<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 6, 2016 It\u2019s appalling to see the New York Times, in its Aug. 5 obituary on Chris Costner Sizemore, \u201cthe real patient behind \u2018The Three Faces of Eve\u2019, quote&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2641\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">hhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/06\/us\/chris-costner-sizemore-the-real-patient-behind-the-three-faces-of-eve-dies-at-89.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0 Chris Costner Sizemore, the Real Patient Behind \u2018The Three Faces of Eve,\u2019 Dies at 89 By BRUCE WEBER AUG. 5, 2016 At the start of the 1957 movie \u201cThe&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2636\">Skepticism, accountability strengthen criminal justice system<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 5, 2016 \u201cPerhaps the virtue of these true-crime stories isn\u2019t how they affect specific cases (indeed, without new and objective evidence that calls into question criminal convictions, it\u2019s important&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2630\">View from inmate: DAs build \u2018careers on the backs of us innocent prisoners\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 29, 2016 \u201cSometimes prosecutors withhold exculpatory evidence of a defendant\u2019s innocence, and don\u2019t turn it over until they are forced to. Take a look\u00a0at the exonerations reported in recent&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2624\">\u2018What may be the largest child sexual abuse trial this country has ever seen\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 22, 2016 \u201cFARMVILLE, N.C. \u2013 Farmville's only courtroom has never played host to a felony trial. This week, the town's 4,000 residents will watch a parade of jurors, lawyers,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2620\">He stood up to Trump mania \u2013 how will he fare with Prosecutors Club?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 20, 2016 \u201cOrr, a former state Supreme Court justice... angered party officials when he told a WRAL TV reporter that the nominee was \u2018singularly unqualified to lead this country.\u2019&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2617\">\u2018Tremendous &#8230; discretion\u2019 has changed little since 1940<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 19, 2016 \u201cThe prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America. His discretion is tremendous. He can have citizens investigated and, if&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2245\">Why we want to forget the panic ever happened&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 15, 2016 \u201cWhen you once believed something that now strikes you as absurd, even unhinged, it can be almost impossible to summon that feeling of credulity again. Maybe that&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2248\">The chilling body count of \u2018personality-driven\u2019 prosecutors<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 11, 2016 \u201cThis week Harvard Law School\u2019s Fair Punishment Project issued a report\u00a0detailing the legacies of five of the nation\u2019s deadliest prosecutors, and (Joe Freeman) Britt\u00a0was among them. The&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2242\">A lack of reporters \u2018sufficiently passionate to get at this story\u2019? \u00a0<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 8, 2016 \u201cAs for an \u2018investigative\u2019 piece about the Kelly case that would get to the \u2018truth,\u2019 we will have to see\u00a0if we have any staff members who are&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2238\">Ever so slowly, progress made toward DAs\u2019 accountability<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 1, 2016 \u201cProsecutors should have to disclose evidence of innocence obtained after a person is convicted, a North Carolina State Bar panel agreed Wednesday. \u201cThe ethics subcommittee voted 3-2&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2230\">Exoneree sees through prosecutors\u2019 excuses: \u2018I call BS\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 30, 2016 \u201cNorth Carolina\u2019s district attorneys say a proposed rule that would require them to turn over evidence of innocence after a person is convicted is....\u201d Anyone familiar with&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2225\">Immunity of office allows zeal, recklessness to go unchecked \u00a0<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 29, 2016 \u201cCompensation is intended in part as a deterrent: a municipality that has to pay heavily for police or prosecutorial misconduct ought to be less likely to allow&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2219\">Three jurors blamed stresses for verdict they regretted<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 24, 2016 \u201cI was a juror on the Edenton Little Rascals sex abuse case, and I heard all the facts. \u201cDuring eight months of testimony I heard no evidence&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2212\">What is \u2018appropriate indemnity\u2019 for wrongful prosecution?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 21, 2016 \u201cOne of the earliest arguments for financial compensation for the wrongly incarcerated came in 1932, from the Yale law professor Edwin Borchard. In an influential book called&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2208\">He\u2019s still \u2018helping survivors\u2019 of imaginary trauma<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 16, 2016 &nbsp; \u201cWe thought \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d was a wholly debunked artifact of the 1980s, but apparently there are still a few \u2018therapists\u2019 out there dedicated to \u2018helping&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2202\">Yet another cousin to \u2018satanic ritual abuse\u2019: unverified \u2018gang-stalking\u2019 \u00a0<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 13, 2016 \u201c...A large community of like-minded people on the internet who call themselves \u2018targeted individuals,\u2019 or T.I.s.... is organized around the conviction that they are victims of a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2194\">High school students introduced to \u2018Innocence Lost\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 10, 2016 It\u2019s heartening to see that, 25 years later, \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d is still shining light on the wrongful prosecution of the Edenton Seven \u2013 \u00a0and for a younger&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2190\">British child abuse investigators too quick on trigger<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 5, 2016 \u201cOne in five of all children born in a single year in England was referred to social services before they reached age 5.... Up to 150,000 pre-school&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2187\">Disapproval of prosecutors \u2018about to hit a tipping point\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 31, 2016 \u201cA consensus is building around the need to seriously rethink the role of the prosecutor in the administration of justice. Power dynamics are unbalanced, sentencing guidelines are&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2180\">McCrory fosters NC\u2019s own costly moral panic<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 29, 2016 \u201cIt\u2019s easy to whip people into a frenzy over a moral panic (such as 'satanic ritual abuse\u2019 in the 1980s). All you do is tell people there\u2019s&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2175\">When adversarial system doesn\u2019t lead to justice<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 26, 2016 \u201cI would like to see more cooperation between prosecutors and defense attorneys in their efforts to achieve justice, particularly when there is a credible post-conviction claim of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2171\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article78669477.html MAY 19, 2016 4:27 PM NC Gov. McCrory pardons Scotland County man Edward McInnis spent 27 years in prison Retesting of DNA evidence freed him in 2015 McInnis was&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2167\">\u2018We cannot give him back those years&#8230;.\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 29, 2016 \u201c \u2018On behalf of the State of North Carolina, I apologize to Mr. (Edward Charles) McInnis for the 27 years he had to spend behind bars for&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2162\">Better not to be wrongfully convicted in the first place<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 18, 2016 Even where (wrongful imprisonment) compensation laws exist, they can be badly flawed. Most states, like Louisiana, place the burden on people who were wrongly convicted to prove&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2158\">For Edenton, \u2018Little Rascals is unfinished business\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 16, 2016 The aftereffects of Little Rascals on Edenton have long interested me. With few exceptions\u00a0the town\u2019s residents, now fewer than 5,000 for the first time since 1970,\u00a0 seem&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2138\">\u2018The prosecution failed at everything but&#8230;.\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 10, 2016 \u201cAssistant District Attorney Nancy Lamb once said, \u2018The goal of the prosecution is to seek justice.\u2019 \u201cIf the defendants were guilty, the prosecution failed. \u201cIf the defendants&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2131\">25 years ago: &#8216;Innocence Lost&#8217; debuts<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 7, 2016 Twenty-five years ago today, \u201cFrontline\u201d aired Ofra Bikel's landmark two-hour documentary on the Little Rascals Day Care case. It turned out to be the first of three&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2128\">View from 1908: \u2018The lawyer alone is obdurate\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 5, 2016 \u201cPsychologists have long recognized that human memory is highly fallible. Hugo M\u00fcnsterberg\u00a0taught in one of the first American psychology departments, at Harvard. In a 1908 book called&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2124\">HB2 isn\u2019t legislature\u2019s first hysterical reaction<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 29, 2016 The damage was minimal compared with that caused by HB2, but the N.C. General Assembly in 1992 produced its own ludicrous overresponse to a nonexistent problem. It&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2118\">\u2018There are no profiles in courage out there\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 25, 2016 \u201cProsecutors wield extraordinary, unparalleled, and unchecked power. \u2018They alone decide who to prosecute for criminal offenses, what charges to bring against them, and what punishments to seek,\u2019&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2113\">This time, will NC Bar tell DAs to play fair?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 20, 2016 \u201c\u2018If prosecutors have an ethical duty to avoid wrongful convictions, then they should have some sort of ethical duty to remedy wrongful convictions,\u2019 said attorney Brad Bannon&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2109\">Embarrassed prosecutors, where are you?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 16, 2016 \u201cTo many in the criminal justice system, it is now a source of embarrassment that there was ever a time when police and prosecutors were convinced that&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2106\">From father of bus rider, a dissenting view<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 13, 2016 This week our recently installed Facebook page received a response from the father of one of\u00a0Junior Chandler\u2019s bus riders. He believes Junior was appropriately convicted and explains&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2097\">Beware of jurors wearing deerstalker caps<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 10, 2016 \u201c(Daniel Green\u2019s) Durham-based defense team says it has new evidence that challenges major parts of the prosecution\u2019s case, while bolstering their request for a new trial. They&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2095\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article70914697.html April 9, 2016 1:00 PM New questions raised in slaying case of Michael Jordan\u2019s father Attorneys: Wrong man convicted as gunman Juror confirms she did her own investigation during&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2091\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.blueridgenow.com\/article\/20160324\/NEWS\/160329883?p=1&tc=pg Questions Of Innocence NAACP: Attorney general should review wrongful convictions MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press Published: Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 3:35 p.m. RALEIGH \u2014 North Carolina's attorney general should&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2087\">Which candidate cares about wrongful convictions?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 8, 2016 \u201cNorth Carolina's attorney general (Roy Cooper) should set up a group to investigate claims of wrongful convictions to prevent\u00a0more innocent people from being in prison, the head&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2080\">\u2018Most people thought I had lost my damn mind\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 5, 2016 At a time when the Little Rascals claims were exposing widespread gullibility, a gritty band of doubters \u2013 e.g., Raymond Lawrence,\u00a0Glenn Lancaster,\u00a0Jane Duffield,\u00a0Doug Wiik,\u00a0Susan Corbett\u00a0and Dee Swain&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2071\">Junior Chandler faces 30th year in prison<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 4, 2016 Junior Chandler may be the last still-imprisoned victim of the \"satanic ritual abuse\" day-care panic. Chandler was a driver for a Madison County, N.C., day care. The&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2068\">In search of justified public panics&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 28, 2016 \u201cI was thinking about recent public panics and started listing a few of them in my mind. This is just off the top of my head: Crack&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2058\">Latest site of \u2018ritual abuse\u2019 claims: Scotland<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 21, 2016 \u201cOnce again advocates of the much discredited Satanic Abuse Panic are making claims of widespread child abuse across Britain. \u201cScotland appears to have become caught up in&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2051\">The last trial of Darryl Hunt<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 17, 2016 The award-winning documentary \u201cThe Trials of Darryl Hunt\u201d\u00a0was released in 2006, but of course Hunt\u2019s world-famous exoneration only freed him to face new trials\u00a0on the outside \u2013&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2046\">How \u2018Innocence Lost\u2019 changed one viewer\u2019s life<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 16, 2016 \u201cThank you for providing a site to keep this tragedy alive....\u00a0 I was a daycare\/preschool owner\/administrator for 20 years ending in 1995.\u00a0The primary reason I retired early&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2038\">Exoneree \u2018eventually got the death penalty\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 14, 2016 Darryl Hunt, imprisoned for more than 19 years for a murder he did not commit, was found dead in a car in Winston-Salem early Sunday. \u201cIn 1984&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2033\">Tortured by timidity in Texas<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 13, 2016 \u201cFran and Dan Keller have been released from a Texas prison after 21 years, yet still have little freedom of movement or circumstance, or even quality of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2031\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/news\/2016-03-11\/learning-from-our-mistakes\/ Learning From Our Mistakes Fran and Dan Keller were prosecuted wrongly and unjustly. It's long past time for their complete exoneration. BY MICHAEL KING, FRI., MARCH 11, 2016 \"Sometimes,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2018\">Prosecutors still digging in their heels?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 7, 2016 \u201cHave any public officials apologized to Dudley? \u201cNo.\u201d \u2013 From \u201cHoward Dudley\u2019s new life: restaurants, cellphones and a cemetery visit\u201d (cached) \u00a0by Joseph Neff in the News&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2014\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/article64064432.html MARCH 4, 2016 3:59 PM Howard Dudley\u2019s new life: restaurants, cellphones and a cemetery visit \u2018Awesome, awesome, awesome\u2019 Dudley was freed by a judge Wednesday Awaiting a prosecutor\u2019s decision&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2007\">Who remembers wrongful conviction was overturned?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\u201c\u2026not one \u2018satanic abuse\u2019 network in the modern context has ever been proven to exist.\u201d <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2016\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article63564927.html MARCH 2, 2016 12:05 PM After 23 years in NC prison, Howard Dudley embraces his freedom The Kinston man had turned down earlier offers that required guilty plea Dudley:&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1992\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article63342732.html MARCH 1, 2016 1:58 PM Howard Dudley\u2019s daughter says she lied about sexual assault Amy Moore says she was raped \u2018By two different guys. Not my daddy.\u2019 Dudley, 59,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1989\">Prosecutorial arrogance \u2013 it\u2019s forever!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 1, 2016 \u201cIt would be hard to imagine a more glaring judicial conflict of interest than the one the Supreme Court considered in a case out of Pennsylvania on&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1983\">Retirement looms for Rubenstein, who detected scam<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 26, 2016 \u201cWhat a waste it would be to force Bucks County (Pa.) Judge Alan Rubenstein from the bench. At 70, he remains sharp and vibrant, a jurist of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1981\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.buckscountycouriertimes.com\/opinion\/editorial\/sound-judgment-too-soon-to-retire\/article_73ee2774-0bbd-57b6-811f-79698e5a6ad2.html Sound judgment: Too soon to retire An editorial in the Bucks County Courier Times Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 12:15 am | Updated: 1:14 am, Tue Feb 23, 2016.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1976\">Antonin Scalia no sucker for children\u2019s testimony<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 15, 2016 \u201c(NYU law professor Rachel) Barkow points to Scalia\u2019s (1990) dissent in Maryland v. Craig,\u00a0where he railed against the court for permitting \u2018a child witness to testify via&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1972\">\u2018A good day for justice\u2019 in Texas \u2013 why not in NC?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 13, 2016 \u201cThe disciplinary board of the Texas State Bar on Monday affirmed the agency\u2019s decision to disbar Charles Sebesta, the former prosecutor who oversaw the wrongful death sentence&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1967\">NC GOP\u2019s one weird trick for justice reform<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 11, 2016 \u201cSignificant criminal justice reforms (are needed) to minimize the chances of wrongful prosecution in the future. \u201cSome might dismiss such goals as a liberal utopian ideal, but&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1944\">Former justice calls for investigation of state bar<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 8, 2016 \u201cBob Orr, a former North Carolina Supreme Court justice, says it\u2019s time for a comprehensive outside review of the state agency that oversees lawyers. \u201cOrr... is part&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1956\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article58916553.html FEBRUARY 6, 2016 7:46 PM NC State Bar dismisses complaints against prosecutors in racially divisive case Duke law professor says prosecutors used \u2018false\u2019 affidavit to discredit his client Records&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1953\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article58916823.html FEBRUARY 6, 2016 7:47 PM Former NC Supreme Court justice calls for review of state bar Bob Orr says outside evaluation of the state agency is needed Bar has&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1886\">Is Finkelhor now less panicked by day cares?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 3, 2016 \u201cA new survey finds that adults at school, day care and organizations such as churches and scouting groups are less likely than relatives to abuse or mistreat&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1881\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article54328220.html#storylink=cpy JANUARY 12, 2016 4:39 PM \u2018Making a Murderer\u2019 about justice, not truth Searing images of law enforcement abuses in Chicago, Cleveland and elsewhere have eroded the public\u2019s trust in&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1878\">The truth about justice \u2013 as seen on TV!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 29, 2016 \u201cThe release last month of \u2018Making a Murderer\u2019 capped a year in which popular culture\u2019s portrayal of the criminal justice system seems to have shifted. Out with&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1693\">Separate disciplinary panel needed for prosecutorial excesses<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 20, 2016 \u201cThe Jan. 15 editorial \u2018The limits of zeal\u2019\u00a0contrasted the penalty given Christine Mumma with the absence of rebuke to prosecutors for the \u2018massive failure\u2019 that kept her&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1959\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/article55483655.html LETTERS TO THE EDITOR JANUARY 19, 2016 5:07 PM Lew Powell: A panel for prosecutors The Jan. 15 editorial \u201cThe limits of zeal\u201d contrasted the penalty given Christine Mumma&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1640\">Mumma victimized by prosecutor&#8217;s perverse priorities<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 16, 2016 \u201cJoseph Sledge\u00a0spent 37 years in prison for a crime he didn\u2019t commit. At his trial, the state paid a lying snitch to testify against him. While he&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1605\">Will Edenton, too, ever be \u2018honest about what took place\u2019?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 14, 2016 \"Researchers announced this week they have confirmed the plot (in Salem, Mass.) where 19 people accused of witchcraft were hanged in a wave of hysteria that swept&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1598\">\u2018Motive behind these sexual acts is never revealed&#8230;.\u2019<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 12, 2016 \u201cThere are strong similarities between the confessions taken from accused witches in early modern Europe, the testimony of Satanic ritual abuse taken by modern therapists, and accounts&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1282\">Obama can&#8217;t pardon Chandler \u2013 but McCrory could<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 6, 2016 \u201cMany fans of (the hit Netflix documentary)\u00a0Making a Murderer,\u00a0which sheds light on questionable conduct by prosecutors and police involved in (Steven) Avery\u2019s conviction, view the 53-year-old\u2019s imprisonment&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=941\">How Edenton resembled Guantanamo Bay<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 2, 2016 \u201cThe CIA's use of its enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence... and on several occasions produced inaccurate information.... \u201cDespite declaring the program&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">2015<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=526\">2015: Train for justice stayed stuck at station<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 30, 2015 Where things stand at year\u2019s end in the obscure but still hopeful world of littlerascalsdaycarecase.org: \u2013 Junior Chandler continues to wait for a decision from the Duke&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=284\">One argument for &#8216;satanic ritual abuse&#8217; pardons<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 28, 2015 \u201cOne problem with pardons is that Presidents have considered them in secret, springing the decisions on the public only after they have been made. In high-profile cases,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=22\">DA acknowledges junk science in arson conviction<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 17, 2015 \u201cThree men convicted of murder by arson for a 1980 fire in Brooklyn (were) exonerated on Wednesday.... \u201cWhat carried the three men into prison was not reliable&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=137\">Defendants&#8217; bond lowered to &#8216;only&#8217; $200,000<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 16, 2015 On this day 25 years ago: Bonds for Little Rascals employees\u00a0Robin Byrum\u00a0and Dawn Wilson are reduced to a\u00a0still excessive\u00a0$200,000 \u2013 Byrum\u2019s from $500,000, Wilson\u2019s from $880,000. Byrum&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=141\">Another century, another generation of fake victims<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 8, 2015 \u201cIt is over 20 years since the rash of allegation that rituals of devil worship, including the sexual abuse of children, the sacrifice, and (sometimes) eating, of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=145\">Throw symptoms against the wall, see if any stick&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 4, 2015 \u201cHertford, N.C. \u2013 Three children who attended Little Rascals Day Care Center behaved strangely in kindergarten,\u00a0a teacher testified Wednesday in the sex abuse trial of Dawn Wilson.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=148\">In Guilford County, a DA who paid attention<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 27, 2015 \u201cWe cannot bring criminal prosecutions based upon what we think the facts might be, out of our love for animals or in response to public pressure. Down&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=151\">Catholic clergy abuse scandal unrelated to day-care cases<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 18, 2015 \u201cReaders who want a deeper look at how young children\u2019s accounts of CSA (child sexual abuse) were discredited in the same time frame of the (Roman Catholic)&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1538\">&#8216;Michelle Remembers&#8217; spread its myth widely<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 15, 2015 \u201cIn 1977 the Canadian psychotherapist\u00a0Lawrence Pazder\u00a0published a memoir of one of his patients, \u2018Michelle Remembers.\u2019... \u201cMichelle\u2019s memoir had been preceded by a number of other books by&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1535\">Chandler&#8217;s sentence designed to lock him up forever<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 8, 2015 \u201cThe latest obstacle to\u00a0Gerald Amirault's\u00a0freedom came without fanfare. A three-member panel of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections has now decided that, since the prisoner has refused participation&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1531\">Just what McMartin case needed: More hysteria!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 4, 2015 \u201c(Psychiatrist Roland) Summit praised the hysteria-induced news media hype and community gossip (about the McMartin Preschool case) as a public service: Without that type and extent of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1527\">Salem profits from its historic shame \u2013 so why shouldn&#8217;t Edenton?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 29, 2015 \u201cYou have to be ... inventive to brand yourself as a Halloween capital \u2013 extending a one-night affair into a monthlong celebration and inviting hundreds of thousands&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1524\">Will Mass. governor show McCrory (or Cooper) the way?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 22, 2015 North Carolina isn\u2019t the only state that has\u00a0failed to mitigate\u00a0\u2013 however little and late \u2013 the injustices it inflicted during the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d era. In Massachusetts,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1521\">&#8216;A hard core of evil in the soul of humankind?&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 20, 2015 \u201c(Richard Beck\u2019s \u201cWe Believe the Children\u201d) addresses only the question of why those events unfolded in the particular way that they did, at one particular moment \u2013&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1518\">Lacrosse case wasn&#8217;t state&#8217;s only imaginary crime<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 14, 2015 \u201c(Attorney General Roy Cooper) took over a tangled and controversial investigation of alleged gang rape by Duke University athletes, eventually in 2007 making the extraordinary determination that&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1515\">Shame links Edenton with other &#8216;ritual abuse&#8217; sites<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 11, 2015 \u201cSatanism lacks a (Jim) Jones or (David) Koresh. Satanism has no Jonestown, no Waco, no Kool-Aid, no casual point of reference. \u201cThis is because Satanic cults, as&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1512\">&#8216;Satanic ritual abuse&#8217; in Sodom? Of course!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 7, 2015 \u201cSodom Laurel was first named\u00a0Revere, and is still Revere on topographical maps, but I seldom hear anyone call it anything but Sodom. (Madison County native\u00a0Dellie Norton\u00a0said) she&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1509\">Sweden examines its mistakes \u2013 why doesn&#8217;t N.C.?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 29, 2015 \u201cThomas Quick was the name adopted by Swedish petty criminal and drug addict\u00a0Sture Bergwall, who under \u2018recovered memory\u2019 therapy, confessed to raping, killing and even eating more&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1506\">Innocent defendants are poor candidates for recidivism<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 22, 2015 \u201cPedophilia, the sexual attraction to children who have not yet reached puberty, remains a vexing challenge for clinicians and public officials.... Researchers have found no effective treatment.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1503\">&#8216;Ritual abuse&#8217; claims exempt from retraction?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 14, 2015 \u201cRising retraction rates reflect (in part) the fact that scientists, journalists and amateur watchdogs have begun scrutinizing research more closely.... \u201cThis heightened scrutiny \u2013 the very scrutiny&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1501\">Another child-witness, now grown, spills the beans<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 8, 2015 \u201cJennifer (a pseudonym) reached out to me after seeing an interview I gave about the McMartin Preschool trial.... She said she had been involved in a similar&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1498\">It wasn&#8217;t just Edenton where lips were zipped<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 5, 2015 \u201cAn 1895 reporter found (Salem) town residents reluctant to talk about the past. \u201cWhen they did, it was to impress upon him that they had not burned&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1495\">Steinem made case for believing the unbelievable<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 1, 2015 \u00a0\u201c(As witnesses) children are even less likely to be believed when their stories involve extremes of sadism, collusion among families and communities (sometimes extending over several generations)&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1492\">Dog bites man: &#8216;Paper will not be retracted&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 26, 2015 In November 2012 the journal Nursing Research declined my request to retract Susan J. Kelley\u2019s 1990 article based on the existence of \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d in day&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1489\">&#8216;Antifeminism&#8217; to blame? Not so fast, Mr. Beck<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 24, 2015 \u201c(Richard) Beck is generally restrained in his narrative, letting the details pile up to a well-deserved indictment of the many players in the \u2018moral panic.\u2019 But in&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1487\">When imaginary crime leads to real punishment<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 20, 2015 \u201cIn the mid-1980s, a friend of mine testified on behalf of an elementary-school teacher who had been accused of being a pedophile. \u201cA child had told his&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1484\">Prosecutors misused bail to squeeze defendants<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 16, 2015 \u201cIn 1689, the English Bill of Rights outlawed the widespread practice of keeping defendants in jail by setting deliberately unaffordable bail, declaring that \u2018excessive bail shall not&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1481\">At last, book lays bare &#8216;satanic ritual abuse&#8217; era<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 10, 2015 Since I undertook this blog in 2011, I\u2019ve been waiting for a mass-market book that recalls the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d day-care era with authority, insight and thoroughness.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1477\">Immunity lets off miscreant prosecutors scot-free<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 9, 2015 \u201cSuppressing evidence, coddling informants, even\u00a0outright lying\u00a0are some of the instances of prosecutorial misconduct that sent away nearly half the 1,621 people convicted for crimes they didn\u2019t commit&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1474\">Injustice without amends: &#8216;We should be ashamed&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 4, 2015 \u201cSome have drawn parallels between the Salem witch trials of 1692 and the false accusations of sexual abuse that sweptc America in the 1980s. The difference is&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1471\">Wikipedia stifles &#8216;ritual abuse&#8217; disinformation campaign<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 31, 2015 \u201cSince February, 2008, on Wikipedia\u2019s page on \u2018Satanic Ritual Abuse,\u2019 Wikipedia\u2019s staff has been suppressing and deleting credible posts from credible sources (including my posts \u2013 I&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1965\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article28770190.html JULY 26, 2015 5:47 PM NC Senate to take up execution protocol changes Bill hides lethal injection details Legal challenges expected No executions in NC since 2006 BY ANNE&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1467\">This just in: La. theater killings rooted in &#8216;ritual abuse&#8217;!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 26, 2015 \"A look at America\u2019s underbelly indicates more than a 'random' killing (at a Lafayette, La., movie theater). Eight signs point to\u00a0John Russell Houser\u00a0possibly being subjected to programmed&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1464\">Excuses for denying exoneration (Salem version)<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 21, 2015 \u201cWhen Massachusetts exonerated the Salem victims in 1710 it overlooked six women. They remained missing through the 1940s and 1950s as the commonwealth considered pardons but could&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1462\">Kelly defenders risked &#8216;financial and social suicide&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 13, 2015 Throughout the long unfolding of the Little Rascals Day Care prosecution, outsiders often sought to determine the \u201cmood of Edenton.\u201d This was a challenging task even in&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1459\">Rare words of prosecutorial remorse<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 5, 2015 \u201cIn March, A. M. Stroud III, lead prosecutor at trial,\u00a0wrote a remorseful article\u00a0in The Shreveport Times, declaring, \u2018Glenn Ford was an innocent man,\u2019 taking responsibility for a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1456\">British lawyers see payday in ritual abuse claims<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 2, 2015 \u201cThe notion of satanic ritual abuse was\u00a0dismissed as \u2018utter nonsense\u2019\u00a0by Mrs. Justice Pauffley in care proceedings in the family court at (London\u2019s) Royal Courts of Justice in&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1453\">Betsy Kelly barred from reunion (but still got T-shirt!)<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 28, 2015 \u201cToday in Edenton members of John A. Holmes High School's Class of \u201973 will walk across a stage in caps and gowns, receive diplomas and turn tassels&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1450\">In 1993, predicting a historic marker \u2013 and more<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 18, 2015 Given my thoroughly\u00a0unsuccessful attempt\u00a0to persuade the State of North Carolina to erect a historic marker recalling the Little Rascals Day Care case, I had to laugh at&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1448\">&#8216;A personal mission to have Bob put behind bars&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 14, 2015 Long after Bob Kelly reclaimed his freedom, he continued to fear that prosecutor Nancy Lamb was searching for yet another excuse to send him back to prison.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1445\">What movie may doubt, book surely doesn&#8217;t<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 11, 2015 \u201cIn (the upcoming movie)\u00a0Regression, Ethan Hawke plays a detective investigating accusations by a woman against her father. There\u2019s a twist: The father has admitted wrongdoing, though he&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1442\">McCrory tires of Sherlock Holmes impersonation<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 4, 2015 \u201cGov. Pat McCrory on Thursday pardoned two half-brothers who were exonerated of murder after spending three decades in prison. \u201cThe governor took nine months to make the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1439\">When rationalizing is mistaken for reasoning<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 2, 2015 \u201cPsychologist\u00a0Brian Nosek\u00a0of the University of Virginia says that the most common and problematic bias in science is \u2018motivated reasoning\u2019: We interpret observations to fit a particular idea.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1436\">What might&#8217;ve been: Nancy Lamb at the multiplex<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 30, 2015 Ofra Bikel\u2019s eight hours of \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d were surely powerful, but the narrowness of PBS\u2019s audience limited their impact. What if the Little Rascals Day Care case&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1432\">The imaginations run amok were not the children&#8217;s<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 27, 2015 \u201cHere\u2019s an observation from the (\u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d day-care) panic that I don\u2019t think has been fully explored: These kids didn\u2019t make up these stories. \u201cIn this&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1429\">Prosecution&#8217;s doctors &#8216;medicalized Satan&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 25, 2015 \u201cInvestigative journalist Susan Goldsmith has spent years examining the medical and legal industry that has arisen to promote its belief that vicious baby-shaking by enraged adults has&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1426\">Investigation without end, injustice without end?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 8, 2015 \u201cA new investigation by the governor into \u2018culpability\u2019 has some concerned that he may be caving to the political pressure inherent in the pardon process \u2013 particularly&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1423\">How could anyone doubt &#8216;shoes made of baby skin&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 5, 2015 \u201cIts members are, it\u2019s claimed, drawn mainly from a school and church in Hampstead (a North London suburb). They are said to wear shoes made of baby&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1420\">&#8216;So, Paula, do YOU think I should pardon them?&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 29, 2015 \u201cWednesday marks the 230th day that Governor Pat McCrory has refused to grant a pardon of innocence to Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, the two Robeson County&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1417\">Kids say the darndest things&#8230;  eventually<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 24, 2015 \u201cAs was made clear repeatedly upon testimony by experts, the very first reports of the children were the ones that would be most critical in determining whether&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1414\">Lack of DNA evidence opens way for injustice<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 18, 2015 \u201cDNA testing has been used 329 times now to prove the innocence of people wrongly convicted of a crime. But what happens when there is no DNA&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1412\">Death noted: Little Rascals judge Marsh McLelland<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 13, 2015 D. Marsh McLelland, judge in the trials of Little Rascals defendants Bob Kelly and Dawn Wilson, died last month in Burlington. He was 94. This\u00a0laudatory obituary\u00a0in the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1408\">Prosecutors claimed WHAT happened here?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 6, 2015 A team from the Duke Wrongful Convictions Clinic recently traveled to Buncombe and Madison counties to collect documents from court clerks\u2019 offices, to interview witnesses and to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1405\">System that wronged Betsy Kelly rewarded Nancy Lamb<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 5, 2015 William L. Anderson, professor of economics at Frostburg (Md.) State University, writes widely in opposition to big government. He has a particular aversion to overreaching prosecutors such&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1402\">Not everyone was moved by HBO&#8217;s McMartin drama<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 31, 2015 \u201c...The watershed event marking the shift in public opinion on these (\u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d day care) cases was the HBO airing of \u2018Indictment: The McMartin Trial\u2019 (watchable\u00a0here\u00a0on&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1950\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/article16529624.html MARCH 27, 2015 7:14 PM NC lawyers face bar complaints for Racial Justice Act work BY ANNE BLYTHE ablythe@newsobserver.com Two defense attorneys face accusations of professional misconduct for a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1399\">It&#8217;s a long way from Duke to Avery-Mitchell Correctional<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 21, 2015 I spent several hours Friday at Duke University Law School listening to experts detail \u201cEvolving Trends in Forensic Science.\u201d Fascinating. Topics ranged from the effects of sleep&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1395\">It wasn&#8217;t only defendants who suffered wrongfully<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 17, 2015 \u201cWarren Twiddy, 68, father of defendant Betsy Kelly, said he\u2019s been \u2018shunned, blocked out\u2019 by some residents and nearly run out of his church.\u201d \u2013 From \u201cTrial&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1392\">&#8216;Ritual abuse&#8217; therapists to scientists: Drop dead<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 13, 2015 \u201cIn this this arena of Recovered Memory Therapy and treatment of DID, therapists will simply imitate what sounds exciting or innovative without assessing the scientific value of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1390\">How to make &#8216;facts and science ultimately irrelevant&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 8, 2015 \u201cAs public debate rages about issues like immunization, Obamacare, and same-sex marriage, many people try to use science to bolster their arguments. And since it\u2019s becoming easier&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1388\">&#8216;Black helicopters&#8217; over Edenton? Sure, why not?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 27, 2015 \u201c.... A social worker from North Carolina informed the group (the Society for the Investigation, Treatment and Prevention of Ritual and Cult Abuse) that in the day-care&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1385\">Can we cope with seeing wrongful convictions?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 20, 2015 \u201cExonerations, which were once exceedingly rare, have become regular features of the American justice system. The\u00a0National Registry of Exonerations\u00a0records 1,535 exonerations nationwide (including\u00a0Bob Kelly and Dawn Wilson)\u00a0since&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1382\">The shocking ease of installing &#8216;lost memories&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 13, 2015 \u201cPsychologists terminated a study (of 70 students at a Canadian university) that showed the ease of implanting false memories of committing terrible, violent crimes in the recent&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1379\">Salem to Edenton was a road heavily traveled<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 9, 2015 The Little Rascals Day Care case has often been likened to the Salem Witch Trials, but this lengthy list from \u201cUnderstanding The Crucible: A Student Casebook to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1377\">McMartin therapy victim: &#8216;I lived in fabricated fear&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 5, 2015 \u201cI was involved in this (McMartin Preschool) case. I remember getting dropped off at court-ordered therapy. I don\u2019t remember the sessions, but I have seen the macabre&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1374\">Are mistaken prosecutors silenced by shame?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 31, 2015 \u201c \u2018You need to try to rectify whatever error you made,\u2019 says Santa Clara County, California, Special Assistant District Attorney David Angel. \u2018But it needs to really&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1372\">Did jurors really believe &#8216;poop in the spaghetti&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 25, 2015 Q:\u00a0 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:\u00a0 After&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1367\">Day-care cases rooted in &#8216;sense of powerlessness&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 17, 2015 Q: Do you have a better understanding of why people act the way they do in certain situations? A:\u00a0\u00a0 ....Whenever the safety of children is perceived to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1363\">District attorney to reexamine Little Rascals \u2013 or not?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 11, 2015 Before he turned back a challenge from Little Rascals prosecutor Nancy Lamb, incumbent District Attorney Andrew Womble had given me an inkling of hope he might consider&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1360\">View from UK: &#8216;Whole culture &#8230; has become hysterical&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 3, 2015 \u201cLurid tales of children being sexually abused, of animals being ritually slaughtered and babies being bred for sacrifice, in bizarre black magic ceremonies by cults of devil-worshipping&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">2014<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1354\">Edenton Seven won&#8217;t be snapping selfies at marker ceremony<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 31, 2014 \u201cDear Mr. Powell: \u201cAt their meeting on December 16, the members of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Advisory Committee... voted unanimously not to approve a marker&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1351\">Why evangelicals fall prey to ritual abuse tales<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 22, 2014 \u201c\u201cWe evangelical Christians by definition live by our own narrative of creation, fall, and redemption. We believe in good and evil. That is why, as a group,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1348\">Seeking corroboration isn&#8217;t disrespectful \u2013 it&#8217;s useful<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 10, 2014 \u201cMore than a decade ago,\u00a0I wrote about the McMartin preschool case, and other satanic ritual child abuse accusations that turned out to be false. Back then, the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1345\">News media newly skeptical about sex allegations?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 3, 2014 \u201cI was in graduate school in Southern California 30 years ago when the McMartin Preschool scandal erupted, featuring tales of Satanic rituals, underground tunnels, group sex with&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1356\">Can Edenton squeeze in one more historical marker?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 27, 2014 \u201cOf the dozen or so historical markers clustered in the town of Edenton, only one \u2013 recognizing novelist Inglis Fletcher \u2013 postdates the 1800s. \u201cThe\u00a0North Carolina Highway&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1342\">Lessons of &#8216;ritual abuse&#8217; era still relevant today<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 19, 2014 \u201cWhile (\u2018The Witch-Hunt Narrative\u2019 author Ross) Cheit... admits that there was some \u2018overreaction\u2019 and injustice to innocent people \u2013 including \u2018five, possibly six, of the seven defendants\u2019&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1339\">How one young reporter changed his mind<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 8, 2014 \u201cIn the summer of 1989, I accepted my first job at a daily paper when The Daily Advance hired me to cover a two-county beat \u2013 Chowan&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1337\">Nancy Lamb loses bid for district attorney<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 5, 2014 Andrew Womble: 24,357 votes (53 percent) Nancy Lamb: 21,411 votes (47 percent) \u00a0I'd like to attribute Nancy Lamb's defeat to her misbegotten role in the prosecution of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1334\">Little Rascals?  Doesn&#8217;t ring a bell, says local daily<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 2, 2014 \u201cFor District Attorney \u2013 Nancy Lamb: Two equally motivated and capable candidates, Democrat Nancy Lamb and Republican Andrew Womble, have mounted compelling political campaigns to claim the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1331\">Lamb not only unrepentant prosecutor facing voters<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 24, 2014 \u201cAs Middlesex County (Mass.) district attorney, (Martha) Coakley defended the convictions of\u00a0Fells Acres day-care center\u00a0operator Violet Amirault and her two children, Gerald Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1328\">A familiar story of day-care sex abuse \u2013 too familiar?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 16, 2014 \u201cA 38-year-old man from Statesville has been accused of molesting children as young as 3 years old at the day care where he worked in the 1990s....&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1326\">What white people believed that black people doubted<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 14, 2014 \u201c(Bob) Kelly\u2019s father-in-law, Warren Twiddy, says that blacks are the only people in Edenton who still treat him like a human being. \u201cOne black woman, calling the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1322\">Veteran journalist bought into Believe the Children<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 4, 2014 Among those journalists who fell for the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d storyline, none fell harder than Civia Tamarkin. She not only stage-managed an embarrassingly credulous episode of \u201cNightline,\u201d&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1319\">Junior Chandler&#8217;s homefolks updated on his case<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 29, 2014 \u201cDuke law professor Theresa Newman has three boxes full of files about Andrew Chandler Jr.\u2019s case: details about the bizarre allegations, the expert testimony that would not&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1316\">Duke Law project examining Chandler&#8217;s case<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 23, 2014 The Duke Law School\u00a0Wrongful Convictions Clinic\u00a0was a crucial ally of defense attorney Sean Devereux in the recent exoneration of\u00a0Michael Alan Parker, whose \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d conviction bears&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1313\">Evidence of new day in Edenton? We can hope<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 17, 2014 I\u2019m doubly intrigued by this recent letter to the editor of the Elizabeth City Advance. First, that an electioneering party official \u2013 in Edenton! \u2013 would cite&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1310\">What? No Little Rascals on Edenton&#8217;s Wiki page?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 12, 2014 Edenton has been the scene of many historic events \u2013 the\u00a0Edenton Tea Party, the escape of\u00a0Harriet Jacobs, etc. \u2013 but surely nothing happened there in the entire&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1307\">Isn&#8217;t half of Junior&#8217;s life enough, North Carolina?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 8, 2014 \u201cThe aging prison population represents a national human-made epidemic decades in the making. ... \u201cOur current trajectory is economically infeasible and morally untenable.... \u201cAlthough there is no&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1304\">&#8216;What have you got? Exoneration? I don&#8217;t think so&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 4, 2014 \u201cThe evidence you heard today in my opinion negates the evidence presented at trial.... Based upon this new evidence, the state does not have a case to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1295\">Edenton Seven can&#8217;t wait forever for exoneration<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 1, 2014 The recent deaths of Little Rascals figures\u00a0Patricia Kephart Hart\u00a0(obituary cached\u00a0here) and\u00a0C. Harvey Williams\u00a0remind me that the clock is ticking on the defendants as well. (Patricia Kephart, mother&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1292\">N.C. judge throws out &#8216;ritual abuse&#8217; conviction<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 28, 2014 \u201cASHEVILLE, N.C. \u2013 After more than 20 years behind bars, Michael Alan Parker, 57, walked past the barbed wire gates of Craggy Correctional Center and looked out&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1289\">Building a better mousetrap? Not exactly&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 24, 2014 \u201cThe following dialogue is from\u00a0Daniel Goleman\u2019s\u00a0article \u2018Studies Reflect Suggestibility of Very Young as Witnesses,\u2019 in the New York Times (June 11, 1993). It is an excerpt from&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1286\">Second thoughts from a &#8216;ritual abuse&#8217; prosecutor?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 17, 2014 \u201cI\u2019m not comfortable commenting on any of them at this point in time.\u201d \u2013 Lael Rubin, formerly the lead prosecutor in the McMartin Preschool case,\u00a0declining to say&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1279\">A dispatch from the &#8216;comfort zone&#8217; of rationality<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 10, 2014 A final (perhaps) thought on\u00a0Professor Sylvia Gillotte, after rereading this passage from our exchange of emails about\u00a0her belief in \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d: \u201cThe thing is, Mr. Powell,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1277\">A call to &#8216;look within the bowels of the human psyche&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 5, 2014 Following up on Sunday\u2019s post about Professor\u00a0Sylvia Gillotte,\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve strung together excerpts from our lengthy email exchange about her belief in \u201csatanic ritual abuse.\u201d My comments are in&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1274\">In this classroom, only certainty about &#8216;ritual abuse&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 3, 2014 \u201cOver the last 12 years, there have been hundreds of day care cases across the United States which involved allegations of ritual child abuse. The discovery and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1297\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Text cache http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/guestbooks\/newsobserver\/patricia-a-hart-condolences\/171953767?cid=full#sthash.XxuOrT20.dpbs Obituary Patricia A. Hart Garner Patricia Ann Ashley Hart, 48, of 313 Whithorne Drive, peacefully passed away on Friday, August 1, 2014 at her home, surrounded by&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1272\">&#8216;That sorry judge should have done something&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 15, 2014 \u201cI realize I\u2019m a little flip when I say 80 percent of the evidence is trash, but it is. \u201cI thought sooner or later some editorialist was&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1269\">Echoes of Little Rascals in 2014 race for DA<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 15, 2014 Here\u2019s the big picture from the latest campaign finance reports filed with the State Board of Elections: Individual contributions to\u00a0Nancy Lamb\u00a0are almost double those to incumbent\u00a0Andrew Womble\u00a0($29,821.54&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1266\">&#8216;I was aware of the possibility of childish fantasy&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 11, 2014 \u201c....\u00a0 As you might imagine, I had not had reason to think about the Little Rascals case until your email arrived.\u00a0 Yes, I was very interested in&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1261\">Alarmed &#8216;Frontline&#8217; viewers turned to governor<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 10, 2014 \u201cThank you for your letter expressing your concerns about the prosecution of the Little Rascals Day Care Center personnel in Chowan County. Although this matter is outside&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1257\">Convictions overturned, judge angrily exited<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 5, 2014 \u201cThe Burlington judge who has presided over the the Little Rascals Day Care Center case since 1990 resigned in disgust the day after the state Supreme Court&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1250\">Portrait of a town haunted by hindsight<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 29, 2014 \u201c(The Little Rascals Day Care center) is red brick, with plate glass windows on the front. The two-story structure is located on East Eden Street, amid mostly&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1248\">It&#8217;s not just politics that make strange bedfellows<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 23, 2014 \u201cThe emphasis has got to be on the crime. Once you start using labels like satanic, sadistic or ritualistic, then you\u2019re immediately raising a red flag.... Law&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1245\">Cable head Wendy Murphy strikes (out) again&#8230;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 18, 2014 \u201cI was disappointed to see that one of the most celebrated cases of this time was mentioned in\u00a0(Ross Cheit\u2019s) book\u00a0but not analyzed. The Little Rascals case from&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1240\">Dr. Frances makes case for Chandler&#8217;s release<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 15, 2014 \u201cAndrew Junior Chandler has been unjustly incarcerated in a North Carolina prison for 27 years, charged with a crime that almost surely never happened.... \u201cLet\u2019s hope that&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1242\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Text cache Originally at http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2014\/06\/14\/3935038\/mass-hysteria-of-sexual-satanic.html?sp=\/99\/108\/ Point of View Mass hysteria of sexual, satanic ritual abuse and a miscarriage of NC justice BY ALLEN FRANCES June 14, 2014 Andrew Junior Chandler&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1237\">What is so sad as a debunker with no bunk?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 12, 2014 \u201cHe thinks the continued treatment of these cases as a modern-day episode of mass hysteria does disservice to children and even puts them in danger. \u201c \u2018We&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1234\">Nancy Lamb: &#8216;Would you want someone like me?&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 3, 2014 \u201cI want all of you to ask yourselves: If you were to find yourself in the unfortunate circumstance of being the victim of a crime, who would&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1231\">Courts reluctantly turn to Little Rascals DA<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 27, 2014 \u201cThe state court system says it hired a local defense attorney to prosecute three murder suspects because the current district attorney had conflicts of interest in all&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1831\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/586606\/posts Summer 2001 Sex, Lies, and Audiotapes Rael Jean Isaac explains why we've been so willing to believe\u00a0fantastic tales of sexual abuse There is a widespread belief that sexual abuse&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1228\">Day-care panic had roots in incest movement<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 23, 2014 \u201c....The widespread belief that sexual abuse of children is endemic to society is a relatively new notion. In fact, it can be traced to a particular moment&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1225\">The unenlightened self-interest of prosecutors<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 16, 2014 Exhibit A: \u201cLast year at a state solicitors\u2019 convention in Myrtle Beach, (South Carolina State Supreme Court Justice Donald Beatty) cautioned that prosecutors in the state have&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2064\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/04\/18\/eyewitness_testimony_no_longer_a_gold_standard\/ Eyewitness testimony no longer a gold standard NIGEL DUARA, ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 The American legal system offers few moments as dramatic as an eyewitness to a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1222\">Supposed debunking of moral panic is itself spurious<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 10, 2014 \u201cThe failure to obtain convictions (in the McMartin Preschool case) combined with massive press coverage during and after, which \u2018taught\u2019 the American public various \u2018lessons\u2019 about child&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1220\">The reign of fantasy as therapy, recalled in a single chart<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 3, 2014 \u00a0As I\u2019ve noted before, the\u00a0Google Ngram Viewer\u00a0mines a database of more than 5 million books to track word and phrase frequencies over time. Too bad it abruptly&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1218\">Chandler&#8217;s imprisonment: cruel and unusual<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 28, 2014 Average number\u00a0of months served by inmates in state prisons... \u25a0 for sexual assault: 35 \u25a0 for homicide: 71 \u25a0 for rape: 65 Number of months served by&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1213\">Governor&#8217;s Clemency Office: &#8216;Reviewed and denied&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 26, 2014 \u201cGiven the near certainty of Junior\u2019s innocence (his first jury could not reach a verdict), given the fact that he has already served 26 years in prison&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1211\">Prosecutors Book Club, please take note<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 19, 2014 \u201cIs it possible to so modify child forensic interviewing that the sorts of errors described by\u00a0Ceci and Bruck\u00a0are minimized?... \u201cThe primary problem is that most prosecutors and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1208\">After 20 years, plea to parents still unanswered<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 11, 2014 \u201cIt may be hard for you to own the fact that you were duped by therapists and prosecutors, as well as misled by your own naivete about&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1205\">Did replay of Salem prove human progress is &#8216;myth&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 5, 2014 \u201cOutside of science, progress is simply a myth.\u2026 In science the growth of knowledge is cumulative. But human life as a whole is not a cumulative activity;&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1201\">Where &#8216;thousands of cult abusers infiltrated respectable society&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 30, 2014 A welcome contribution to the unraveling of the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d case against\u00a0Fran and Danny Keller\u00a0was this letter from Chicago psychology professor\u00a0Evan Harrington\u00a0dismantling the testimony of prosecution&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1198\">Psychiatry, the devil and Gloria Steinem<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 24, 2014 As described in Richard Noll's \"When Psychiatry Battled the Devil,\" the 7th annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation, held&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1195\">SRA apologists flushed from their diploma-papered caves<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 22, 2014 \u201cEditorial Note: In light of the responses we have received regarding this article by Richard Noll, PhD, that was posted on our website on December 6, 2013,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1192\">Too bad &#8216;True Detective&#8217; chose to mislead, not to enlighten<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 15, 2014 \u201cIn an interview with Entertainment Weekly (True Detective\u00a0creator Nic) Pizzolato responded to a question about the inspiration for the show: \u2018You can Google \u201cSatanism\u201d \u201cpreschool\u201d and \u201cLouisiana\u201d&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1189\">New York Times remembers McMartin case<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 12, 2014 \u201cReally now, teachers chopped up animals, clubbed a horse to death with a baseball bat, sacrificed a baby in a church and made children drink the blood,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1187\">Why SRA authors might&#8217;ve passed on responding<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 8, 2014 Last of three posts As I\u00a0recounted earlier, Dr. Jon Conte expressed a willingness to consider my expanded letter seeking a retraction of the Journal of Interpersonal Violence\u2019s&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1185\">A funny thing happened on the way to publication<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 7, 2014 Second of three posts After our\u00a0lengthy email exchange\u00a0I took up editor Jon Conte on his offer to consider an expanded letter challenging the Journal of Interpersonal Violence\u2019s&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1180\">What? A journal willing to retract?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 6, 2014 First of three posts Psychiatric Times isn\u2019t the only professional journal to\u00a0avoid reexamining\u00a0the \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d era. Other examples include\u00a0Nursing Research,\u00a0Child Abuse &amp; Neglect\u00a0and\u00a0Relational Child and Youth&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1177\">Richard Kluft, &#8216;advocate of moderation&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 28, 2014 As noted by\u00a0Gary Greenberg, Richard Noll\u2019s\u00a0disappeared history\u00a0of psychiatry and satanic ritual abuse \u201csingles out two psychiatrists \u2013 Bennett Braun and Richard Kluft \u2013 who were instrumental in&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1174\">C&#8217;mon, Dr. Kluft, aren&#8217;t you proud of your role?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 24, 2014 Why would Dr. Richard Kluft \u201ctake exception to\u201d and \u201c(raise) the issue of legal liability\u201d over \u201cWhen Psychiatry Battled the Devil\u201d? It\u2019s not as if the record&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1171\">In search of a &#8216;frank and unblinking appraisal&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 20, 2014 Following up on the curious case of\u00a0Richard Noll v. Psychiatric Times, I wrote editor-in-chief\u00a0James L. Knoll IV\u00a0to ask about the removal of Dr. Noll\u2019s\u00a0\u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d essay\u00a0from&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1167\">Psychiatric Times clings to embarrassing position<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 14, 2014 Thanks to\u00a0Ivan Oransky\u00a0at\u00a0Retraction Watch\u00a0for spotlighting Psychiatric Times\u2019 remarkably inept\u00a0retraction\u00a0of Richard Noll\u2019s \u201cWhen Psychiatry Battled the Devil.\u201d Don\u2019t miss the update appended by\u00a0Dr. Noll: \u201cOn 16 January 2014&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1164\">&#8216;Where is psychotherapists&#8217; mea culpa?&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 7, 2014 A sampling of responses to the recent reporting and comments of\u00a0Richard Noll\u00a0and\u00a0Allen Frances\u00a0about psychiatry\u2019s costly failure to reject the cult of \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d: \u25a0\u00a0 \u25a0\u00a0 \u25a0&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1161\">Is psychiatry ready to face up to its denial?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 1, 2014 \u201cAs our medical schools and graduate programs fill with students who were born after 1989, we meet young mental health professionals-in-training who have no knowledge or living&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1158\">Responses to N&#038;O op-ed vary dramatically<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 24, 2014 \u201cPowell is right (in this News &amp; Observer column). The state should exonerate those wrongly convicted members of the Edenton Seven and the wrongly accused who were&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1150\">It&#8217;s not too late to exonerate, Mr. Attorney General<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 20, 2014 \u201cEighteen months ago I petitioned Attorney General Roy Cooper to issue a statement of innocence for the Edenton Seven. \u201c \u2018In 2001 Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift signed&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1154\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Text cache \u00a0Originally at\u00a0http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2014\/01\/18\/3541972\/like-salem-witches-edenton-seven.html Point of View Like Salem\u2019s \u2018witches,\u2019 it\u2019s time for NC to exonerate the Edenton Seven BY LEW POWELL January 18, 2014 Twenty-five years ago Sunday, a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1146\">Texas physician, DA show how to admit injustice<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 8, 2014 \u201cAmong the atrocities that Frances and Dan Keller were supposed to have committed while running a day care center out of their Texas home: drowning and dismembering&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=104\">Practicing therapy &#8216;on the basis of sheer myth&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 5, 2014 \u201cProbably the main reason for the growth of false charges of (sexual) abuse has been the recent proliferation of abuse specialists and therapists, many of whom lack&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">2013<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1138\">Could we resolve to better next year?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 28, 2013 End-of-year grab bag from the wide world of justice delayed: \u25cf Thanks to Professor P. S. Ruckman Jr. at\u00a0Pardon Power\u00a0for posting\u00a0my comments on Andrew Junior Chandler. \u25cf&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1135\">Dennis Rogers: Who has the courage to make amends?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 21, 2013 As noted\u00a0here\u00a0and\u00a0here, News &amp; Observer columnist Dennis Rogers was among the too-few voices of skepticism about the Little Rascals case. Today Rogers is mostly\u00a0retired, but he continues&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1132\">&#8216;Ritual abuse&#8217; prosecution as stepping stone?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 15, 2013 \u201c....Rumor has it that people are urging former District Attorney Nancy Lamb to run against Republican (State) Rep. Bob Steinberg in Northeastern North Carolina.... \u201cIn Steinberg\u2019s district,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1129\">Clemency now rare; is it fear of blowback?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 8, 2013 \u201cObviously, there\u2019s a modern trend towards more limited use of executive clemency that extends beyond the current president. I speculate that the increased media scrutiny given to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1126\">Three &#8216;built-in biases&#8217; with tragic consequences<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 2, 2013 \u201cOf the many built-in biases in human thought, three have perhaps the greatest consequences for our own history and that of nations: the belief that we see&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1124\">Lamb exit leaves district at risk of satanic ritual abuse<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 22, 2013 \u201cGov. Pat McCrory has appointed the Albemarle\u2019s chief public defender \u2013 and a member of the governor\u2019s political party \u2013 to complete the term of the late&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1121\">Texas ex-DA pays price, however little and late<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 20, 2013 \u201cGEORGETOWN, Texas \u2013 A former Texas prosecutor who won a conviction that sent an innocent man to prison for nearly 25 years agreed Friday to serve 10&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1118\">For Junior Chandler, one door opens \u2013 will another open?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 16, 2013 An update from Mark Montgomery, Junior Chandler\u2019s appellate attorney: \u201c[The\u00a0N.C. Center on Actual Innocence]\u00a0reviewed Junior's case but could not find anything that would help him.\u00a0 The \u2018kids\u2019&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1115\">Whatever happened to Kelly&#8217;s ex-lawyer? This&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 8, 2013 While we await Gov. McCrory\u2019s decision on whether to promote Nancy Lamb to\u00a0district attorney, another key figure in the Little Rascals prosecution is stepping aside. From the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1110\">&#8216;Lack of rigor&#8217; is nothing new in the social sciences<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 4, 2013 \u201cIt\u2019s not a great time for psychology. Diederik A. Stapel, a Dutch social psychologist, has recently confessed to\u00a0serial fraud. That he gamed the peer review process of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1108\">50 students now know the facts<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 28, 2013 \u201cWhat was surprising was that in a class of 50 students, none had heard of the day care allegations of the 1980s.\u201d \u2013 From a note from&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1105\">Nancy Lamb, DA? It&#8217;s up to Gov. McCrory<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 18, 2013 Because the Elizabeth City Daily Advance rejected my\u00a0letter to the editor\u00a0questioning its support of Nancy Lamb for district attorney, I\u2019ve been posting comments in the online Advance,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1098\">Focus on Lamb&#8217;s politics is off the mark<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 14, 2013 \u201cWhether Nancy Lamb should be promoted to district attorney is not simply a question of Democrats vs. Republicans. (Lamb is a Democrat; the decision on whether to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1096\">Holocaust denial shows vulnerability of real memory<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 11, 2013 \u201cHolocaust deniers have managed to receive, in recent years, a respectful hearing on college campuses and elsewhere, despite the existence of mountains of firsthand and corroborated traumatic&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1094\">&#8216;Hunt for child abusers has become national pathology&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 9, 2013 \u201cWe are a society that, every 50 years or so, is afflicted by some paroxysm of virtue \u2013 an orgy of self-cleansing through which evil of one&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1091\">&#8216;And believes to this day she was molested&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 7, 2013 \u201cToday (in 2001), few contend that the interview techniques used at the outset of the\u00a0Fells Acres\u00a0child abuse investigation, in 1984, were proper and reliable. Middlesex County (Mass.)&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1101\">Text cache<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Text cache http:\/\/www.dailyadvance.com\/opinion\/our-views\/our-view-mccrory-should-set-politics-aside-appoint-lamb-da-2183745#comments Our View: McCrory should set politics aside, appoint Lamb DA The Daily Advance Saturday, October 5, 2013 Gov. Pat McCrory will soon get a second chance to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1089\">Satanic ritual abuse exemplified &#8216;counterknowledge&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 4, 2013 \u201cThe essence of counterknowledge is that it purports to be knowledge but is not knowledge. Its claims can be shown to be untrue, either because there are&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1087\">Newspaper saw Kelly conviction as &#8216;breakthrough&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 2, 2013 \u201c...It's understandable that this week\u2019s conviction of former day-care center owner Robert Fulton Kelly Jr. in Farmville, N.C., is being hailed as a breakthrough.... The conviction\u00a0 increases&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1085\">What better credential than Little Rascals debacle?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 30, 2013 Death noted: District Attorney\u00a0Frank Parrish, 64, who succeeded H. P. Williams Jr. in prosecuting the Edenton Seven. By the time Parrish took office in 1994, Little Rascals&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1083\">Children &#8216;defend veracity of implanted memories&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 27, 2013 \u201cThe children are the big victims (in unfounded sex abuse cases) and are sacrificed....\u00a0 Can you imagine being a child and being interrogated, being sent to the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1081\">You had to have been there (or did you?)<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 25, 2013 \u201cPeer group pressure... is a factor that should be considered when there is an allegation of sexual abuse involving multiple victims. Children in Edenton who never attended&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1079\">When will wheels of justice turn for Junior?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 23, 2013 There\u2019s a bit of an update out of Raleigh on Junior Chandler\u2019s\u00a0prospects for clemency. Billy Chandler, Junior\u2019s brother, received this email last week from Pat Hansen in&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1076\">Day-care ritual-abuse claims vs. &#8216;The Cosby Show&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 20, 2013 \u201cIn 1984 in particular we see a turning point in the media representation of American motherhood. Two major media events exemplified the cultural contradictions in which working&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1074\">Defending Betsy Kelly? Prepare to be stalked<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 18, 2013 \u201cJoseph B. Cheshire V, Betsy Kelly\u2019s attorney, says the believers in town remain so hostile to the heretics who profess any disbelief over the charges that he&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1072\">&#8216;The truth is not a smorgasbord&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 16, 2013 \u201cThe prosecution-minded are careful to say that they do not believe everything a child says. For example, they do not believe 3-year-old Virginia\u2019s statement that \u2018Karen was&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1070\">Board couldn&#8217;t see Betsy Kelly &#8216;minus her publicity&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 13, 2013 \u201cI am urging you to treat Elizabeth Kelly as you would treat anyone else with the same case file.\u00a0 I am asking you to demonstrate that we&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1068\">&#8216;Too many therapists with too little expertise&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 11, 2013 \u201cWhy did the epidemic of day care hysteria happen just when and where it did? Why in 1982? Why in the United States?.... You can\u2019t have a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1064\">Judith Abbott&#8217;s fantasies of Charles Manson<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 9, 2013 \u201cAccording to court records, one of the state-recommended therapists,\u00a0Judith Abbott, showed a five-year-old girl drawings of satanic symbols (a horned mask, inverted crosses and a peace symbol&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1062\">Still waiting for that &#8216;huge mea culpa&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 6, 2013 \u201cThe day-care trials couldn\u2019t have happened without the active participation of social workers and therapists.\u00a0 Police authorities relied on the therapists to interpret what the child witnesses&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1060\">&#8216;Question mark in so many minds&#8217; about McMartin&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 4, 2013 In her appreciative review of \u201cThe Hunt,\u201d the new Danish movie about a kindergarten teacher wrongfully accused of child sexual abuse, Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1058\">Clemency for Junior Chandler is long overdue<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 2, 2013 \u201cThat power (of clemency), which the Constitution explicitly grants to the president, has always served as an indispensable check on the injustices of the legal system and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1056\">A national epidemic of supposed &#8216;remembering&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 30, 2013 \u201cThe Edenton case is not just a horrifying aberration. Adults across the country are suddenly \u2018remembering\u2019 that they were abused as children, and filing civil lawsuits and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1054\">Day-care teachers &#8216;as helpless as a clay pigeon&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 28, 2013 \u201cIt\u2019s not by chance that day care centers are the sites of magical molestation, and not public schools with their powerful lobbies and unions.... Those primary and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1052\">&#8216;Cooper stopped far short of apologizing&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 26, 2013 \u201cAttorney General Roy Cooper stopped far short of apologizing to (Greg Taylor and Floyd Brown). He said that the SBI had better investigative practices now and that&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1050\">Faulty &#8216;mental tuning forks&#8217; betrayed therapists<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 23, 2013 \u201cDeveloping a mental tuning fork for the credibility of a claim, gaining an instinct for when to trust and when to doubt a source \u2013 these are&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1047\">Child sex trafficking: 21st century&#8217;s moral panic?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 21, 2013 \u201cSome advocates have suggested secure facilities for America\u2019s child sex trafficking victims.... Such facilities force troubled children into a system of care that may be just as&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1044\">Remember when &#8216;ritual abuse&#8217; was a hot topic?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 19, 2013 A brief visual aside, courtesy of the Google books\u00a0Ngram Viewer: However much frustration I feel in pursuing exoneration for the Edenton Seven \u2013 plenty! \u2013 I do&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1042\">Anxieties about children still make us crazy<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 16, 2013 \u201cRitual abuse may now seem an almost quaint aberration, a temporary fad that seized the popular imagination, as outdated as hula-hoops or disco fever. But our anxieties&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1039\">That was Dennis T. Ray&#8217;s story, and he was sticking to it<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 14, 2013 \u201cFARMVILLE \u2013 A juror in the trial of Robert F. Kelly Jr. testified Wednesday that it was an \u2018amazing coincidence\u2019 that information from a magazine article appeared&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1037\">Calling all members of &#8216;secretive organizations&#8217;&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 12, 2013 \u201cTo maintain their belief in networks of satanic ritual abuse, the people involved in (the 16th Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference, to be&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1035\">X-factor in child-witnesses&#8217; accounts: TV<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 9, 2013 \u201c(One) area of uncertainty is the extent to which sexual knowledge is learned by young children through exposure to either explicit or sexually suggestive materials on television,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1032\">&#8216;Will Edenton be able to heal from this?&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 7, 2013 \u201cAfter (the first episode of \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d aired in 1991), letters and phone calls poured into the mayor\u2019s office. \u201c \u2018Dear Mayor: Thank God I don\u2019t live&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1027\">Did prosecutors check out AG&#8217;s horror movies?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 5, 2013 The little-publicized\u00a0North Carolina Justice Academy\u00a0describes itself as \u201cone of six divisions of the N.C. Department of Justice under the administration of Attorney General Roy Cooper... charged with&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1025\">How to make Nancy Lamb very, very unhappy<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 2, 2013 \u201cThe attorney for Dawn Wilson was the late Kirk Osborn, who also represented Reade Seligmann in the Duke Lacrosse Case. \u201cOsborn told me that after Wilson's conviction&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1023\">&#8216;Have you ever stopped to consider&#8230;?&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 31, 2013 \u201cHave you ever stopped to consider what the statistical odds must be against the following allegations made by the prosecution? How could the following all be true?&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1021\">Of mice and memory and the moral panic<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 29, 2013 \u201cScientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed the ability to implant mice with false memories. The memories can be easily induced and are just as&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1019\">For Betsy Kelly&#8217;s sister, a chillingly close call<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 26, 2013 Rereading appellate defender Mark Montgomery\u2019s\u00a0thunderously compelling brief\u00a0on behalf of Bob Kelly always delivers something I had either passed over earlier or forgotten. This time it was that&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1017\">Officer Toppin sure had an eye for &#8216;red flags&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 24, 2013 \u201c(Edenton police officer Brenda) Toppin, who conducted the first interviews of children allegedly abused at the center, testified that \u2018In the early interviews, I had very few&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1015\">Claims were extraordinary, but evidence wasn&#8217;t<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 22, 2013 \u201cPrecisely because of human fallibility, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Now, I know that (alien-abduction theorist) Budd Hopkins responds that extraordinary claims require extraordinary investigations. And I&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1013\">What was learned from Little Rascals debacle?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 19, 2013 \u201c...There should be lessons here, lessons about the risks in cases so emotional that they take on a life of their own; lessons for prosecutors who need&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1011\">The toxic legacy of phony scholarship<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 17, 2013 \u201cSome reports of day care abuse suggest threats and verbal coercion to be particularly severe.\u00a0(David) Finkelhor\u00a0et al. (1988), for example, reported that in day care abuse, perpetrators&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1009\">Ritual-abuse theorist played &#8216;concentration camp&#8217; card<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 12, 2013 \u201cSome professionals take the charges (of satanic ritual abuse) seriously. \u2018It's hard to believe, but so were the reports about Nazi atrocities,\u2019 says Bennett Braun, director of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1007\">For maximum notoriety, avoid Chowan County<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 10, 2013 Although some consider Little Rascals the East Coast version of the McMartin case, according to Google\u2019s\u00a0nGram Viewer\u00a0it comes in a\u00a0distant second\u00a0in prominence. Not even eight hours of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1005\">Prosecutor reneged on promise to Betsy Kelly<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 8, 2013 \u201cAs the parents made their case to the (North Carolina Parole Commission), prosecutors and defense attorneys continued sparring over whether the state had reneged on the plea&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1003\">&#8216;The most fundamental questions of fairness&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 5, 2013 \u201cRALEIGH \u2013 During a hearing at the state Court of Appeals, Chief Judge Gerald Arnold repeatedly asked a state prosecutor about the fairness of testimony by (Bob)&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1001\">Nancy Lamb rejected reason in favor of fantasy<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 3, 2013 \u201c(Nancy Lamb) is aware of the naysayers, those who say she ran a witch hunt, gleaning hundreds of charges against (Bob) Kelly and his staff from the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=999\">9\/11, Sandy Hook and the McMartin &#8216;tunnels&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 1, 2013 I noted last week the continuing unwillingness of law professor John E.B. Myers, widely published authority on child sex abuse, to express an opinion \u201cregarding the guilt&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=996\">Professor yet to decide about McMartin case<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 28, 2013 \u201cChildren can lie, but research shows that they do not fabricate detailed descriptions of adult sexual acts unless they have experienced or witnessed them. Studies also show&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=994\">&#8216;Capturing the Friedmans&#8217; didn&#8217;t capture the Kellys<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 26, 2013 The suburban New York child sex abuse case documented in the Oscar-nominated \u201cCapturing the Friedmans\u201d (2003) returned to the spotlight Monday, this time because of a review&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=992\">&#8216;Started as a rumor \u2013 not about molestation, not at first&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 24, 2013 \u201c(I) followed the Little Rascals case closely in the Norfolk and other papers.... Moved by (its) strangeness and patent senselessness, as well as by reports nationwide at&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=990\">&#8216;For historians&#8230; a taste of what it was like to live in Salem&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 21, 2013 From blog commenter Mike: \u201cI'd seen the\u00a0\u2018Frontline\u2019 episodes\u00a0long ago, before I moved to North Carolina. I was surprised to learn, when I recently revisited the case, that&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=988\">&#8216;We knew we had a secret&#8217; (so we put Brenda on the case)<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 19, 2013 The Little Rascals parents insisted their children had \u201cdisclosed\u201d mostly on their own, rather than a result of persistent interrogation. But this live interview, in the giddy&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=986\">What, no applause from Attorney General Easley?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 17, 2013 \u201cI don\u2019t know if Bob Kelly and the staff of that now-infamous Edenton day care center abused those children... But I do know, beyond any reasonable doubt,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=984\">All those bizarre sex crimes \u2013 yet not a single witness?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 14, 2013 Among visitors to Edenton during the Little Rascals prosecution was Margaret Leong, a Chapel Hill poet who worked with preschool children. In her book \u201cMagical Child Molestation&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=981\">Move along, &#8216;Frontline,&#8217; nothing to see here<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 12, 2013 \u201cWe received only one call, from a gentleman in Massachusetts, and he said he felt sorry for the whole community and wished us well. It was business&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=978\">When &#8216;overwhelming community sentiment&#8217; wins<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 10, 2013 \u201cThe danger posed by courts and prosecutors who abdicate their responsibilities to uphold the Constitution in favor of overwhelming community sentiment was recently illustrated in State v.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=976\">Retraction won&#8217;t kill you, journal editors<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 7, 2013 \u201cOne hundred and fifty-five years after it snubbed Dr. John Snow in his obituary, The Lancet is taking it back. \u201cThe British medical journal noted that its&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=974\">Parents gave thumbs down to first &#8216;Innocence Lost&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 5, 2013 \u201cMore than 50 parents of alleged child victims in the Edenton day care sex abuse case issued a statement Tuesday criticizing \u2018Innocence Lost\u2019 (after) reviewers in the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=970\">Two historic sites, two wildly different outcomes<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 3, 2013 In the aftermath of the McMartin Preschool case in California, the\u00a0building was razed\u00a0and the site probed for\u00a0secret tunnels. In the aftermath of the Little Rascals Day Care&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=968\">MPD renamed DID \u2013 but it&#8217;s still bunk<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 31, 2013 \u201cAfter the DSM-III, often called the 'Bible' of psychiatric diagnosis, included (Multiple Personality Disorder) in 1980, thousands of spurious cases emerged in the next two decades, and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=966\">&#8216;Very sick&#8230;. very troubling&#8230;. very sad!&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 29, 2013 \u201cVery sick! There is clear evidence (the Edenton Seven) are guilty... Very troubling to know someone wastes their time writing about this every day. He\u2019s just as&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=963\">UNC-TV counterprogrammed &#8216;Innocence Lost&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 27, 2013 Recent revelations about billionaire David Koch\u2019s\u00a0influence on the airing of an unflattering PBS documentary\u00a0bring to mind how UNC-TV showed\u00a0similar deference\u00a0to the accusing parents in the Little Rascals&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=961\">The unbearable emptiness of &#8216;n=&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 24, 2013 \u201cThe research described is a study of a clinical sample of 72 women who allegedly sexually abused 332 children. The Sample is examined from a variety of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=959\">Sheriff, mayor escaped prosecutors&#8217; dragnet<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 22, 2013 \u201cOne of the biggest strengths for the prosecution was that these children would go home every night to a parent or parents fully aligned with the prosecution&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=952\">A rare chance to watch the story unfold<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 20, 2013 The day-care ritual-abuse era generated a wealth of words, many of which have been cited here. Aside from the epic \u201cInnocence Lost,\u201d however, little video evidence remains.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=950\">What? &#8216;A hotel that doesn&#8217;t take American Express?&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 17, 2013 From Betsy Kelly\u2019s comments at the ceremony awarding Ofra Bikel the\u00a02007 John Chancellor Award\u00a0for Excellence in Journalism: \u201cI stand before you tonight because of Ofra Bikel. She&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=947\">Unaccountable prosecutors: A familiar story<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 15, 2013 \u201cAs one of the lead prosecutors, (Elizabeth Lederer) helped lock up five young people (the Central Park Five) based on false confessions, no DNA evidence and media&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=944\">Investigator still believes Kelly was guilty<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 13, 2013 \u201cOn January 20, (1989, Audrey) Stever met with (social workers) David McCall and Grenda Costin, who told Ms. Stever that there was going to be an investigation&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=939\">Prosecutors&#8217; bag held one last trick<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 10, 2013 \u201cEvidence at the trial of Robert F. Kelly Jr. consisted mainly of the fantasy-laced testimony of children and no physical proof. His conviction was overturned by an&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1544\">&#8216;Child Sex Scandals: Modern-Day Witch Hunts?&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 9, 2013 CBS Correspondent Mike Wallace narrated this 1999 production that covers a number of the ritual abuse court cases, including Little Rascals. A window below may not open.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=955\">A rare chance to watch the story unfold<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 9, 2013 CBS Correspondent Mike Wallace narrated this 1999 production that covers a number of the ritual abuse court cases, including Little Rascals. (A more modern version of this&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=937\">&#8216;Right much training but nothing like she needed&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 8, 2013 \u201cWe just had all kinds of rumors. Everybody in town was involved in it, with this one pointing fingers, that one pointing fingers. My telephone was ringing&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=935\">Chandler&#8217;s hopes rest with innocence project<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 6, 2013 When last we left Junior Chandler, his former appellate defender, Mark Montgomery, had asked North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services to\u00a0look into the case. But NCPLS requires the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=933\">A deal for Betsy? Then why not for Bob and Dawn?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 3, 2013 \u201cIn the quaint village of Edenton, where residents have suffered either a sadistic witch hunt of historical proportions or a rampage by a despicable gang of ritualistic&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=931\">&#8216;Parents too trusting&#8217;? No, magazine too gullible<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 1, 2013 \u201cFor several years... during which innocent people, many of whom were themselves the parents of young children, were sent to prison, the press by and large went&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=928\">View from Edenton: &#8216;I never considered leaving&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 29, 2013 If you watched \u201cThe Plea,\u201d the concluding 1997 installment of \u201cInnocence Lost,\u201d you might not expect that Nancy Smith Barrow, Betsy\u2019s sister, would choose to remain in&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=925\">&#8216;Satanic ritual abuse&#8217; loses its place in textbook<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 26, 2013 By 1997, when the college textbook \"Family Violence Across the Lifespan\" was first published, the most grievous excesses of the day-care ritual-abuse panic had passed (although it&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=923\">The night Koppel redefined &#8216;objective and reliable&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 24, 2013 \u201cTed Koppel said the idea for (a \u201cNightline\u201d episode criticizing juries\u2019 growing skepticism toward child-witnesses) had been brought to him by Civia Tamarkin, who although she \u2018served&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=920\">Why the panic &#8216;needs to be remembered&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 22, 2013 \u201cLecturing recently, I mentioned the American witch-hunts of the 1980s and 1990s. When the audience looked puzzled, I explained that I was referring to the Satanic Panic&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=918\">Was there nothing to fear but &#8216;day care itself&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 19, 2013 \u201cWhat can have spurred so many communities to such (ritual abuse) hysteria? The answer may be day care itself. The mothers who report that children never lie&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=916\">Parent said God knew better than &#8216;Frontline&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 17, 2013 \u201cOne day you will stand before almighty God and be accountable for that which you have done here on Earth, and no amount of lies and manipulation,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1550\">Excerpts: &#8216;Family Violence Across the LIfespan: An Introdution&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 15, 2013 Excerpts from \"Family Violence Across the Lifespan: An Introduction,\" by Cindy L. Miller-Perrin, Ola W. Barnett, Robin D. Perrin. SAGE, Dec 21, 2010, 896 pp. The PDF&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=914\">Prosecutors went out of way to inflame public<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 15, 2013 This from Detroit reader P. Karr: \u201cRaised by a mom who survived the Blitz of London, I was taught that fascism often appears at the hands of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=912\">&#8216;If somebody killed a rabbit at my day care&#8230;&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 12, 2013 In January 1993, supporters of the Edenton Seven held a press conference in Hertford to demand that North Carolina authorities bring to an end \u2013 in the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=910\">Therapists were na\u00efve in use of dolls<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 10, 2013 \u201cConsider the use of anatomically detailed dolls to prompt shy or frightened children to reveal abuse. This was an innovation of the 1970s, and at first it&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=908\">Panics fade, &#8216;leaving in their wake bewilderment&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 8, 2013 \u201cThe panic over satanic ritual abuse in the United States... subsided rather abruptly, as panics usually do, whether they are individual or social. They are like an&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=905\">Prosecutors staged revival of &#8216;spectral evidence&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 5, 2013 \u201cIn the Little Rascals Day Care case testimony was given about children being attacked by sharks kept in a pool by the accused. No prosecutor believed this&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=903\">Oh, those spoilsports, voicing &#8216;disbelief and skepticism&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 3, 2013 In my fruitless attempt to extract a\u00a0retraction\u00a0from the journal Child Abuse &amp; Neglect, I quoted only the abstract of \u201cSexual Abuse of Children in Day Care Centers\u201d&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=899\">The limits of &#8216;unequivocal and undeniable evidence&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 1, 2013 \u201cSuppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has a commitment to this belief, that he has taken irrevocable actions because of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=897\">For Little Rascals DA, mum was always the word<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 29, 2013 \u201cELIZABETH CITY \u2013 Attorneys for the seven defendants in the Edenton child abuse case want to know what techniques were used to elicit accusations from the children....&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=895\">Authorities misled parents by cherry-picking evidence<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 27, 2013 \u201cAuthorities fed... parents and public (in Edenton) a biased reading of the evidence, but few realized it was biased. \u201cConsider the following: John and David, two friends&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=892\">A DA unafraid &#8216;to go where the truth leads&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 25, 2013 \u201cI really see us as sharing the goal of making sure this conviction rests on credible and substantial evidence. I\u2019m going to go where the truth leads&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=890\">Prosecutor believed he had closed the deal early on<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 22, 2013 \u201c'There are some people who said we could have stopped after the first child testified.\u201d \u2013 District Attorney H.P. Williams Jr., expressing confidence that the jury\u00a0was being&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=888\">Potent weapon for N.C. DAs: court calendar<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 20, 2013 \u201cUnlike their counterparts in every other state, North Carolina prosecutors have control over criminal court calendars. \u201cIn the Little Rascals case, prosecutors used their trial-scheduling authority to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=884\">Could N&#038;O have thwarted &#8216;prosecutor gone wild&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 18, 2013 \u201cWhen I look back, I think my greatest mistake (was) my failure as editor of the News &amp; Observer to make sure we had a top-notch investigative&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=882\">&#8216;No innocent person should have to endure&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 15, 2013 \u201cTo the extent that we may have contributed in any way to the public perception that you might have been involved in this crime, I am deeply&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=879\">Edenton newspaper shed little light on case<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 13, 2013 In researching his master\u2019s thesis, \u201cModern Witch Hunts: How Media Have Mishandled Ritual Child-Sex-Abuse Cases,\u201d UNC Chapel Hill journalism student David O. Loomis focused on the inadequate&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=877\">The unsinkable Ann Wolbert Burgess<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 8, 2013 \u201cOver 15 years ago, a number of children were sexually abused while attending three different day care centers sponsored by military services... \u201cThis is the fourth follow-up&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=875\">An expertise &#8216;contrary to science and common sense&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 7, 2013 Anthony Oberschall\u2019s\u00a0\u201cWhy False Beliefs Prevail: the Little Rascals Child Sex Abuse Prosecutions\u201d appeared in \u201cEssays in Honor of Raymond Boudon\u201d (2000). Most saliently, the UNC sociologist argues&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=836\">UNC sociologist sought to deflate moral panic<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 6, 2013 Anthony \u201cTony\u201d Oberschall, professor (now emeritus) of sociology at UNC Chapel Hill, wrote extensively \u2013 if not prominently \u2013 about the insanity of the Little Rascals case.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=831\">UNC experts failed to bring rationality to case<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 4, 2013 \u201cWhat did Mark Everson, Dr. (Jean C.) Smith, Dr. (Desmond K.) Runyan, Dr. (Doren D.) Fredrickson... all say about behaviors of children who are sexually abused?\u201d \u00a0\u2013&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=829\">Weighing the evidence vs. &#8216;betraying the children&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 1, 2013 \u201cNow, you can ask yourself why did the jury believe these things? How could the jury believe that, as in the\u00a0Amirault (day-care ritual-abuse) case, old Mrs. Amirault,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=827\">&#8216;Make up any old nonsense&#8217; and watch it spread<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 27, 2013 \u201cThe difficulties in debunking blatant antireality are legion. You can make up any old nonsense and state it in a few seconds, but it takes much longer&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=824\">&#8216;Give child&#8217;s testimony same weight&#8217; as adult&#8217;s?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 25, 2013 \u201cThe 99 guilty verdicts against (Bob) Kelly appear to have set a benchmark for such cases: that youthful witnesses can have enough credibility to win convictions on&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=822\">Double-decker graves, portable crematoriums&#8230; and so on<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 22, 2013 \u201cThe argument for an organized network of satanists is virtually irrefutable. Ritual abuse survivors\u2019 reports contain many fantastic elements. Rather than regard the implausible\u00a0 features of these&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=819\">DA Williams to jury: Don&#8217;t consider the source<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 20, 2013 \u201cDon\u2019t focus on the question, focus on the answer.\u201d \u2013 District Attorney H. P. Williams, urging jurors to ignore\u00a0the leading questions that therapists asked\u00a0child-witnesses to elicit accusations&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=816\">Advising parents &#8216;one of the damnedest things I ever did&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 18, 2013 Gov. Jim Hunt was serving his fourth term (1997-2001) when prosecutors dropped the last Little Rascals charges. Although Gary Pearce, Hunt\u2019s longtime adviser and\u00a0later biographer, doesn\u2019t remember&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=814\">Police chief deputized McMartin parents<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 15, 2013 From a letter that the police chief in Manhattan Beach, Calif.,\u00a0sent to parents\u00a0of children attending McMartin Preschool after the arrest of Ray Buckey on Sept. 7, 1983:&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=812\">Ritual-abuse therapists, meet UFO debriefers<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 13, 2013 \u201cCan we say beyond a shadow of a doubt that any day-care operators in the country are innocent? No. Can we say that those who claim they&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=810\">&#8216;No abuse until the interviews began&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 11, 2013 \u201cAfter reading a number of these interviews (of children) in the\u00a0Wee Care (Kelly Michaels) case,\u00a0it is difficult to believe that adults charged with the care and protection&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=808\">McMartin&#8217;s prosecutor&#8217;s pitch was certainly graphic<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 8, 2013 \u201cYour honor, ladies and gentlemen, this is a case about trust and betrayal of trust... trust placed in the hands of Ray Buckey and Peggy Buckey.\u00a0 Parents&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=805\">&#8216;Long history of panic&#8217; extended to day-care cases<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 6, 2013 \u201cPanic provides a rationale for action, sometimes overreaction or even manipulation. As such, it is the subject of heated accusation and denial that can create a swirl&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=803\">Junior Chandler wasn&#8217;t asking for much, but got nothing<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 4, 2013 Junior Chandler, writing from Avery-Mitchell Correctional Center, January 23, 2013: \u201cAll of the high profile and high publicity cases in the last 20 years \u2013\u00a0 nearly every&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=801\">Beware of parents in search of &#8216;truth&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 1, 2013 \u201cThe Little Rascals case serves as a good reminder that parents also are part of the child-savers interest group and have as much, in fact probably more,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=799\">By time to testify, children knew their lines<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 30, 2013 \u201cThey have been through more dress rehearsals than the cast of \u2018Cats.\u2019\u201d \u2013 Joe Cheshire, lawyer for Betsy Kelly, protesting the latitude\u00a0given the prosecution in preparing Little&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=796\">Edenton&#8217;s history was no defense against panic<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 28, 2013 Manhattan Beach, California; Malden, Massachusetts; Christchurch, New Zealand; Maplewood, New Jersey; Sao Paulo, Brazil.... For more than a decade, unfounded allegations of day-care ritual abuse were breaking&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=794\">When millions believe in alien abduction&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 25, 2013 \u201cWith regard to recovered memories, ritual abuse charges and multiple personalities, the tide seems to have turned. Courts are continuing to reverse decisions...The Edenton Seven have been&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=791\">&#8216;Burying the memory&#8217;: Misconception that won&#8217;t die<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 23, 2013 \u201cRitual sex abuse is back. Recently (in 2003) I heard that a conference on the topic was being held for psychotherapists. \u201cIt was planned not to critique&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=789\">Less bonding, less crying, more thinking \u2013 why not?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 21, 2013 \u201cAccording to advocates (of victim impact statements), they allow victims to personalize the crime and elevate the status of the victim by describing the effect the crime&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=787\">Grandmother blames &#8216;Kelly magic&#8217; for outlandish tales<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 18, 2013 \u201c\u201cI am the grandmother of a Little Rascals Day Care victim, and I am greatly disturbed by many responses to \u2018Innocence Lost: The Verdict.\u2019 \u201cWake up out&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=784\">&#8216;Subculture&#8217; of therapists blamed ritual abuse<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 16, 2013 \u201cTherapists diagnosing Satanic Ritual Abuse as the cause of their patients\u2019 troubles... often belonged to a subculture within the therapeutic community, where focus on dissociation and multiple&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=782\">For Junior Chandler, yet another long shot<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 14, 2013 Junior Chandler\u2019s prospects for at last walking out of Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution a free man remain bleak. After more than 25 years, he is probably the last&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=780\">Oh, to see ourselves as other see us \u2013 ouch!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 11, 2013 \u201cChris Bean (Bob Kelly\u2019s lawyer until becoming involved as a child-witness parent) told me that when the townspeople first saw the documentary, they thought it was OK&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=777\">If only reality had offered such vivid details&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 9, 2013 \u201cOne question that arises from studies on children\u2019s suggestibility is whether they document false memories or merely false reports. Do children really believe that the fictional events&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=775\">Betsy Kelly: Still innocent, but no longer believing<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 7, 2013 \u201c\u201cWhen I began this journey almost five years ago, I was a very strong, very optimistic, very believing and very innocent person. As I stand here today,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=772\">Piaget experienced reality of false memory<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 4, 2013 \u201cPsychologist Jean Piaget reported that his earliest memory was of his nurse defending him against a potential kidnapper at age two. He distinctly recalled sitting frightened in&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=101\">Perdue removes one stain, leaves another<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 2, 2013 What a bittersweet moment, reading Gov. Bev Perdue\u2019s statement announcing her pardon of innocence for the Wilmington 10. Surely, for the six surviving defendants, the pardon represents&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">2012<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1718\">Text of Gov. Perdue&#8217;s statement on Wilmington 10 pardons<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 31, 2012 Text of Gov. Bev Perdue's statement on her decision to issue pardons of innocence to the Wilmington 10, as reported by WECT Wilmington. I have spent a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=770\">&#8216;A state lost the ability to see clearly&#8217; \u2013 again<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 31, 2012 Anticipating Attorney General Roy Cooper\u2019s 2007 statement dismissing charges against the lacrosse defendants, Duke law professor\u00a0Paul Haagen\u00a0said, \u201cThe critical thing could be the wording. It could simply&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=768\">In search of &#8216;clues or indicators&#8217; for ritual abuse<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 28, 2012 Let\u2019s not leave behind \u201cRitual Abuse: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Help\u201d without considering Appendix B, \u201cSimilarities in the Lives of Ritual Abuse&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=766\">A bit of doubt creeps into claims of child abuse<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 26, 2012 By 1993 the moral panic was at last retreating from therapists\u2019 offices, courtrooms and the media. That timing gives \u201cRitual Abuse: What It Is, Why It Happens,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=764\">&#8216;Attached to their convictions&#8217; \u2013 and then some<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 24, 2012 \u201cWhy prosecutors sometimes fight post-conviction evidence so adamantly depends on each case. Some legitimately believe the new evidence is not exonerating. \u201cBut legal scholars looking at the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=762\">Oh, those consequences of imaginations run amok<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 21, 2012 \u201cIn the accusatorial post-McMartin climate, day care providers... took measures to protect themselves from false allegations. They installed video cameras to record all of their activities, opened&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=760\">Skeptics not welcome where &#8216;awareness&#8217; rules<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 19, 2012 \u201cDown with skepticism, up with awareness.\u201d \u2013 Button worn at a conference on \u201cmultiple personality disorder\u201d\u00a0(hat tip,\u00a0religioustolerance.org) Six words that say it all, from MPD to satanic&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=757\">Gun lobby knows that public outrage will subside<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 18, 2012 The hands-off-my-guns community is hunkering down, as it did after Columbine, after Tucson, after Aurora, confidently waiting for the storm of outrage to pass. Just curious: If&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=753\">A real head-scratcher: Diagnosis or job description?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 17, 2012 \u201c(They) are arrogant and self-centered, and feel privileged and entitled. They have a grandiose, exaggerated sense of self-importance and they are primarily motivated by self-serving goals. They&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=750\">Santa, I know this is an unusual request, but&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 14, 2012 \u201cLamb, Nancy and Bill Hart. \u2018Pointers on multi-victim, multi-perpetrator cases.\u2019 American Prosecutors Research Institute 1992. Attorneys who prosecuted Little Rascals case offer advice regarding mass molestation cases.\u201d&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=748\">Moral panic drove men from day-care centers<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 12, 2012 \u201cIn 1983, (the year of the first McMartin Preschool allegations), only 5 percent of day care providers were male. During the nine years of the moral panic,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=746\">Journal editors find excuses to avoid retraction<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 10, 2012 I\u2019ve been surprised \u2013 naively, I suppose \u2013 by the refusal of professional journals such as\u00a0Nursing Research,\u00a0Child Abuse &amp; Neglect\u00a0and\u00a0Relational Child &amp; Youth Care Practice\u00a0to retract articles&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=743\">How one journal editor went very, very wrong<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 7, 2012 Following up on Wednesday's post: Here's how editor\u00a0Gerry Fewster\u00a0began his introduction to \"In the Shadow of Satan: The Ritual Abuse of Children,\" the\u00a0still-unretracted\u00a01990 special issue of the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=741\">&#8216;Satan&#8217; issue was 100% baloney \u2013 but so what?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 5, 2012 As noted previously, my requests for retraction to\u00a0Nursing Research\u00a0and Child Abuse &amp; Neglect went nowhere. But I found a spark of interest at a third journal,\u00a0Relational Child&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=739\">In Raleigh, even justice delayed is hard to come by<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 3, 2012 Exoneration is in the air! From\u00a0Texas\u00a0to\u00a0New York\u00a0\u2013 and of course here in\u00a0North Carolina\u00a0\u2013 more and more prosecutorial abuses are being dug up, dusted off and exposed to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=736\">Is clinging to error really &#8216;how science progresses&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 30, 2012 In 1993 (January-February issue), the journal Child Abuse &amp; Neglect published \u201cSexual Abuse of Children in Day Care Centers\u201d by Susan J. Kelley, Renee Brant and Jill&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=734\">Prosecutors&#8217; dream: Day-care den of evil-doers<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 28, 2012 \u201cThere is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.\u201d \u2013 Robert Lynd, Irish essayist\u00a0 (1879-1949) The average Edentonian&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=731\">Reality notwithstanding, ritual-abuse report lives on<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 26, 2012 Although no mention of the notorious Report of the Ritual Abuse Task Force is to be found on the Los Angeles County Commission for Women\u00a0web site, I&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=729\">When did Little Rascals myth become lie?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 23, 2012 \u201cThe great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie \u2013 deliberate, contrived and dishonest \u2013 but the myth \u2013 persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.\" \u2013&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=726\">How to get attention: Why, &#8216;It&#8217;s getting worse every year&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 21, 2012 \u201cThe child abuse field has always been one that felt like there was not enough public policy attention, so the narrative reflected that: It\u2019s at crisis proportions;&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=723\">&#8216;Conditions that would lead to a retraction&#8217;? Sorry, no<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 19, 2012 Crucial to the moral panic was a wave of ill-conceived academic and professional literature. I asked\u00a0Molly C. Dougherty, editor of\u00a0Nursing Research, whether her journal had ever published&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=719\">One thing led to another&#8230;. boy, did it ever!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 16, 2012 \u201cIn North America in the 1980s, the moral panic about organized child abuse arose in a context that included the following scares: \u201ca moral panic about satanic&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=717\">Who do that voodoo? Why, prosecution&#8217;s &#8216;experts&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 14, 2012 \u201cProsecutors building these high-profile cases well understood the problems posed by the strange charges and the fantasy-riddled narratives of the child plaintiffs. How could they make credible&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=714\">Did prosecutors sell out for name recognition?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 12, 2012 \u201cIt is not conceivable that any of the prosecutors (in cases such as Little Rascals) believed a word of the charges responsible for ruining the lives of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=712\">Sex-abuse journalism raises &#8216;strange question&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 9, 2012 \u201cDid I recognize that child sex abuse existed and was a serious problem? reporters would ask. A strange question, that. The discussion of no other crime would&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=710\">&#8216;Yawning gaps in evidence&#8217;? Sounds familiar<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 7, 2012 \u201cMass hysteria always makes perfect sense when we are trapped in it. It can take decades \u2013 or even longer \u2013 before the crazed irrationality of a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=707\">A children&#8217;s book not appropriate for children<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 5, 2012 \u201cWhen five-year-old Allison\u2019s parents begin to see a change in her behavior at home, they seek professional help for her. They find that Allison and other children&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=705\">McMartin case brought emulation, not illumination<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 2, 2012 \u201cThe (McMartin) episode and its conclusion were ravaged by the mass media and produced a tremendous repercussion throughout the nation \u2013 but not the one of caution,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=703\">&#8216;Belief in a devil&#8217; is essential to fanatics<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 31, 2012 \u201cMass movements can rise and spread without a belief in God, but never without belief in a devil.\u201d \u2013 Eric Hoffer in his landmark analysis of fanaticism,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=701\">&#8216;With fewer accounts of human sacrifice&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 29, 2012 \u201cFor at least eight years American law enforcement has been aggressively investigating the allegations of victims of ritualistic abuse. There is little or no evidence for the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=699\">We believe them, we believe them not&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 26, 2012 \u201cAs in the McMartin case, the North Carolina \u2018experts\u2019 dismissed absurd elements of the children\u2019s stories and fixated on the guilt of the caretakers. \u201cWhen a child&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=697\">Abuse primer was big seller for county<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 24, 2012 \u201cIndeed, at a time when the (Los Angeles County) Board of Supervisors has been meeting just five floors below the (Ritual Abuse) task force to dismantle county&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=680\">&#8216;Fear of closets&#8217;? Get that child to a therapist!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 22, 2012 In the Dark Ages of social science \u2013 the 1980s, give or take a few years -- unfounded concepts were treated as received truth: satanic ritual abuse&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=674\">When &#8216;backlash spewed,&#8217; Judy Abbott blamed &#8216;falsehoods&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 19, 2012 \u201cThe backlash spewed from the guilty verdicts in the Little Rascals Day Care case have (sic) been painful and difficult to hear and live with. Those of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=671\">How to uncover ritual abuse: a foolproof recipe<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 17, 2012 \u201cLittle Rascals is a most important case, because it demonstrates how the mind set of interviewers can be transmitted to the children and persuade them to disclose&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=668\">National borders were no barrier to panic<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 15, 2012 \u201cGerman television and the press (especially the tabloids) dwelled on McMartin with almost the same intensity as did the U.S. media....The impact was predictable: an immediate, steep&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=664\">&#8216;You don&#8217;t just brush off 24 years of a man&#8217;s life&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 12, 2012 The exoneration of\u00a0Willie Grimes\u00a0warms my heart, and not just because the 66-year-old parolee has become \u201cFree at last!\u201d after a 1987 rape conviction in Hickory. As often\u00a0lamented&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=662\">Oh, those &#8216;anxious parents, well-meaning child advocates&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 10, 2012 \u201cThis case arose during the height of the Child Sexual Abuse Hysteria of the 1980s and 1990s. The McMartin Preschool case, perhaps the most famous such case,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=660\">Counselors gotta counsel \u2013 but about what?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 8, 2012 \u201cEven those (ritual-abuse day-care cases) that resulted in acquittals... reflect hundreds of children and their family members referred to counseling. \u201cMany families were limited to a handful&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=657\">N.C. justices to Junior Chandler: Drop dead<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 5, 2012 Because today\u2019s North Carolina Supreme Court decision on Junior Chandler\u2019s\u00a0appeal\u00a0comprised three separate parts, I didn\u2019t fully comprehend it. \u201cIs this good news or bad?\u201d I emailed Mark&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=654\">Exoneration depends on catching eye of media<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 3, 2012 \u201cYou can have all the evidence in the world, and that\u2019s still only 50 percent of the fight. The other 50 percent is media. \u201cYou have to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=651\">&#8216;Evidence too compelling to dismiss&#8217;? Really?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 1, 2012 \u201cSince 1983, public and professional interest in maltreatment of young children in day care has increased dramatically. It was then that children first began disclosing allegations of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=649\">How to demonize &#8216;quite ordinary women&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 28, 2012 As mentioned last week, the preponderance of women among the Edenton Seven was one of\u00a0many curiosities\u00a0that apparently failed to burden the prosecution with second thoughts. Mary DeYoung&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=647\">27 million chances to provoke mass hysteria<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 26, 2012 \u201cThe (Little Rascals) kids stories have unerringly followed the ritual abuse plot, progressing lately to tales of witnessing babies slaughtered. Perhaps not coincidentally, their most bizarre allegations&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=644\">Faller, Everson resist trend toward skepticism<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 24, 2012 The February 2012\u00a0special issue\u00a0of the Journal of Child Sexual Abuse is devoted entirely to \u201cContested Issues in the Evaluation of Child Sexual Abuse Allegations.\u201d Ritual-abuse holdouts\u00a0Kathleen Coulborn&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=642\">Abuse theory didn&#8217;t fit, but what the heck<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 21, 2012 \u201cLos Angeles psychiatrist Roland Summit\u2019s \u2018child sexual abuse syndrome,\u2019 a theory about incest... argues that if there is evidence of sex abuse and a child denies it,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=640\">North Carolina&#8217;s bull market in hysteria<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 19, 2012 \u201cThe rumor has traveled like a Halloween ghost \u2013 from Wilson to Coats to Apex to Raleigh. \u201cPerplexed law enforcement agencies statewide have been fielding inquiries for&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=638\">What prosecutors didn&#8217;t (want to) know<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 17, 2012 I don\u2019t doubt that prosecutors asked themselves many questions during the course of the Little Rascals case. \u201cThink it\u2019s gonna rain tomorrow, Nancy?\u201d Or maybe \u201cYou want&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=636\">Working &#8216;seven days a week&#8217; in wrong direction<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 14, 2012 \u201cJudith Steltzner Abbott of Camden has become a moving force for the well-being of sexually abused children and their families across the state. Her presentations on child&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=633\">&#8216;How long, O Lord, will you forget me forever?&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 12, 2012 \u201cConnie Tindall wanted to be pardoned before he died. But like Jerry Jacobs, Joe Wright and Ann Shepard before him, Tindall was buried Friday without knowing if&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=630\">Edenton Seven could&#8217;ve used a Johnny Depp<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 10, 2012 \u201cYou saw those initial documentaries, you make a choice: Am I going to watch the thing and go \u2018Wow, that's really horrible,\u2019 and go out and get&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=626\">City sidewalks, busy sidewalks: An upbeat dispatch from the DNC<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 7, 2012 Having met with\u00a0less than overwhelming interest\u00a0earlier in the week in front of the bustling Charlotte Convention Center, I narrowed my focus. Thursday I situated my \u201cExonerate\u201d placard&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=623\">Predigital advocacy for the Edenton Seven<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 5, 2012 Almost 68 years old I am, but until this week I had never hoisted a picket sign. Why now? Within walking distance of my house, thousands of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=620\">Postcard from the bumpy path to exoneration<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Sept. 3, 2012 Since its creation by the General Assembly in 2006, the North Carolina\u00a0Innocence Inquiry Commission\u00a0has considered more than 1,100 innocence claims, three of which resulted in exonerations.\u00a0 This&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=618\">There was good reason children weren&#8217;t eager to accuse<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 31, 2012 \u201cChildren don\u2019t just come running out of their houses screaming, \u2018I\u2019ve been molested!\u2019\u201d \u2013 Assistant attorney general Bill Hart, justifying to the Associated Press (Dec. 31, 1989)\u00a0why&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=616\">What caused &#8216;inability to think straight&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 29, 2012 \u201cLos Angeles County\u2019s Satanic Abuse Task Force, an official sub body of the Los Angeles County Women\u2019s Commission, concluded (in 1992) that Satanists were trying to pump&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=614\">&#8216;Prosecutors&#8217; Overreaching&#8217;? Edenton had it in spades<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 27, 2012 \u201cProsecutors are the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system. They decide whether criminal charges should be brought and what those charges should be, and they&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=612\">&#8216;I knew right then it couldn&#8217;t be true&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 24, 2012 My\u00a0EDENTON7\u00a0license plate recently caught the eye of a former Little Rascals Day Care parent who left Edenton. Although Maria \u2013 a pseudonym, as she still has family&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=609\">Even Betsy Kelley believed something happened<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 22, 2012 \u201cThey would have had to experience this or seen this. I know that for a fact. I know they didn't make it up. I mean, I\u2019m an&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=607\">Beware the next generation of Indian captivity tales<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 20, 2012 Endlessly fascinating \u2013 and baffling \u2013 is how some experts fell headlong for \u201csatanic ritual abuse,\u201d while others managed to keep their wits. This is from an&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=605\">Day-care prosecutors &#8216;become like a torturer&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 17, 2012 \u201cI\u2019ve wondered how the prosecutors (in ritual-abuse day-care cases) could live with themselves. \u201cSays Debbie Nathan (coauthor of \u201cSatan\u2019s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=602\">Court cracks door \u2013 can Junior fit through it?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 15, 2012 The North Carolina Supreme Court won\u2019t release its next batch of opinions until\u00a0August 24, but its recent decision on a 2009 child sex abuse case could augur&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=599\">Mr. Attorney General, here&#8217;s chance to do right<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 13, 2012 I wrote Mark Davis, general counsel to Gov. Bev Perdue, to ask that she issue a \u201cstatement of innocence\u201d on behalf of the Edenton Seven. This is&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=597\">How hard it was to say, &#8216;Boy, was I wrong&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 10, 2012 Carol Tavris: \u201cAfter the McMartin trial in 1986, I wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times about research that had been done on how to interview&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=594\">Blogger writes about Lew Powell&#8217;s writing about Little Rascals case<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 9, 2012 Text of Bill Lucey's\u00a0blog item\u00a0about Lew Powell's writing on the Little Rascals case. Retired Charlotte Observer Columnist Lew Powell Pursuing\u00a0 State's Admission of Guilt in Witch Hunt&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=591\">Why there&#8217;s a littlerascalsdaycarecase.org<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 8, 2012 Five reasons the Little Rascals Day Care case has never attracted the attention it deserves: \u25a0 Overshadowed by McMartin case. \u25a0 No racial angle. \u25a0 Remote location.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=589\">Bill Hart used day-care moms as dating pool<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 6, 2012 Let\u2019s say you were a special deputy attorney general called in from Raleigh to help prosecute the Little Rascals case. Now imagine: What would be the most&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=587\">&#8216;If he made such a statement, it was not a threat&#8217; (!)<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 3, 2012 \u201cBetty Ann Phillips, who had worked at the day care center, said (in the first episode of \u201cInnocence Lost\u2019) that she had complained to (District Attorney H.P.)&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=585\">Mondale Act set up bonanza for therapists<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Aug. 1, 2012 \u201cCongress\u2019s well-intentioned but misguided Mondale Act (the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, CAPTA), signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1974, provided impetus to prosecute alleged&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=582\">R.I.P., Alexander Cockburn, ritual-abuse skeptic<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 30, 2012 Death noted: Radical-left polemicist\u00a0Alexander Cockburn, who as early as 1990 was raging against claims of satanic ritual abuse. Cockburn gave particular attention to feminism\u2019s role in the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=579\">Why have historians overlooked day-care mania?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 27, 2012 \u201cIt has always intrigued me that, in a culture that is relentlessly self-critical... the pre-school hysteria and witch-hunts of the 1980s and \u201990s (have) attracted little, if&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=576\">A tormented wait for prosecutors to admit defeat<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 25, 2012 \u201cThe terms of (Shelley Stone's release on $342,000 bond) included an order to stay out of downtown Edenton so she would not run across any children \u2013&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=574\">Defective interviews? Irrelevant, DA insisted<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 23, 2012 \u201c \u2018Don\u2019t focus on the question, focus on the answer,\u2019 (District Attorney H. P. Williams Jr.) said, referring to the defense argument that children were asked leading&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=571\">Honk if you believe that&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 20, 2012 ... Little Rascals parents were caught up in a frenzy of panic and misinformation. ... Ill-prepared therapists served prosecutors, not their patients. ... In their zeal for&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=569\">Suppose you gave a lynch party, and nobody came?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 18, 2012 \u201cLaw enforcement officials are teaming up with social services experts to investigate and more effectively prosecute child sexual abuse in North Carolina day-care facilities.... \u201cState Bureau of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=566\">Betsy Kelly wouldn&#8217;t succumb to state&#8217;s torture<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 16, 2012 \u201cElizabeth Kelly was denied parole Friday, three months after pleading no contest to charges of sexually abusing children at her Edenton day care. \u201cMrs. Kelly, sentenced to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=564\">When skepticism is set aside for outrage<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 13, 2012 \u201cIt is painful to admit this, but when the McMartin story first hit the news, the two of us, independently, were inclined to believe that the preschool&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=562\">Prosecutors claimed to see &#8216;coherent package&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 11, 2012 \u201cAnd what did Doctor (Mark) Everson say what to look for? A coherent package that\u2019s consistent. You look at the behavior and what the child says.... He&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=560\">Another expert unfazed by being completely wrong<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 9, 2012 What happens to a social scientist who builds her career on exposing illusory \u201csex rings\u201d and \u201critual abuse\u201d at day cares? And, more specifically, whose\u00a0seminar at Kill&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=558\">Why we want to forget the day-care abuse craziness<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 6, 2012 \u201cWhen you once believed something that now strikes you as absurd, even unhinged, it can be almost impossible to summon that feeling of credulity again. \u201cMaybe that&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=556\">Prosecution waited futilely for defendant to roll<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 4, 2012 \u201cThe state has done me wrong and imprisoned me for over six years,\u201d Bob Kelly said in 1995 after his conviction was overturned and prosecutors were deciding&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=552\">What made Mark Everson an expert witness?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">July 2, 2012 Perhaps the prosecution\u2019s most influential expert witness during the 1992 trial of Bob Kelly was psychologist\u00a0Mark Everson, director of the Program on Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment\u00a0in UNC&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=550\">Nancy Lamb has an explanation for everything<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 29, 2012 \u201cOne month after drawing national attention when she dismissed final charges involving the children at the day-care center, (Nancy Lamb) clings to her belief that Robert Kelly&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=548\">Ritual-abuse mania contaminated legitimate prosecutions<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 27, 2012 \u201cWhen well-intentioned but misguided individuals use questioning techniques known to increase the risk of false allegations of sexual abuse, a cascade of unfortunate events can follow. \u201cConsequences&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=545\">Oh, for the ability to recognize something &#8216;odd&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 25, 2012 \u201cI saw this woman in her 20s ... accused of something like 2,800 charges of child sex abuse. Oh, I thought, well, that's very odd.... \u201cI thought,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=542\">Holocaust child-survivors needed no coaxing<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 22, 2012 \u201cTeen-age Holocaust victims had no trouble looking their abusers straight in the face and saying, \u2018You did this to me, you monster.\u2019 None of them, when they&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=540\">Little Rascals: A &#8216;travesty of justice&#8217; for the ages<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 20, 2012 \u201cThe Little Rascals case still remains the greatest travesty of justice I\u2019ve ever been associated with or seen or even heard about... since like 1960.\u201d \u2013 Joe&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=537\">Children &#8216;got mixed up&#8217;? Believe them anyway<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 18, 2012 \u201cYes, prosecutors blundered terribly by piling on charges and piling on defendants, just because they could. \u201cYes, some of the parents became hysterical and acted out of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=535\">All molesters, please gather now on E. Eden Street<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 15, 2012 \u201cHow did such a large group of child molesters assemble? This is not New York, this is Edenton, North Carolina.\u201d \u2013 Edward B. Simmons,\u00a0making his closing argument\u00a0on&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=533\">For therapist, creating memory is easy task<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 13, 2012 \u201cActually, making a false memory is pretty easy. \u201c(Psychologist Elizabeth) Loftus describes a father convincing his daughter she'd gotten lost in a mall when she was five&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=530\">Innocence, alas, does not guarantee exoneration<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 11, 2012 After discovering the\u00a0National Registry of Exonerations, I was happy to see that it lists Little Rascals defendants\u00a0Bob Kelly and Dawn Wilson, whose convictions were overturned on appeal.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=528\">Bill Hart played by his own (poker) rules<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 8, 2012 \u201cThe duty of the prosecutor is to seek justice, not merely to convict.\u201d \u2013 American Bar Association \u201cThe primary responsibility of prosecution is to see that justice&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=524\">A mother to fear at your day-care door<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 6, 2012 \u201cThe Kellys decided to buy the day care center after a previous owner quit following a dispute with a mother (who) was upset that her son didn\u2019t&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=522\">Citing self, professor finds &#8216;false allegations quite rare&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 4, 2012 \u201cDrawing upon clinical experience and research, Faller... asserted that false allegations are quite rare and pointed out that children have little motivation for making a false accusation,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=520\">A funny story about the Little Rascals case (really!)<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 1, 2012 An incident recalled by a former Edenton resident: \u201cA friend had a son in Little Rascals but wouldn\u2019t let him participate in the \u2018hunt.\u2019 She shielded him,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=518\">If anyone deserves pardon, why not Edenton Seven?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 30, 2012 Is the case for pardoning the Wilmington 10 any more compelling than that for pardoning the Edenton Seven? As the\u00a0N&amp;O\u2019s Bruce Siceloff points out, \u201cSomebody firebombed Mike\u2019s&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=516\">&#8216;Understanding and Assessing&#8217; ritual-abuse mythology<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 28, 2012 How would Bruce A. Robinson, founder of the comprehensive and widely respected\u00a0ReligiousTolerance.org, describe the credibility now given ritual abuse? \u201cI am unaware of any child psychologist or&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=514\">Children don&#8217;t remember, but are sure abuse happened<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 25, 2012 \u201cMaggie Bruck, co-author of \u2018Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children's Testimony\u2019 and a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, says no long-term psychological&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=511\">&#8216;The most innocent man I have ever defended&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 23, 2012 Experienced trial lawyers can\u2019t afford to dwell on lost cases. Sometimes that\u2019s quite a challenge: \u201cRobert Fulton Kelly.... was the most innocent man I have ever defended&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=509\">Prosecutors grudgingly loosen grip on Bob Kelly<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 22, 2012 Fifteen years ago today: Claiming they want to spare their child-witnesses from another round of testimony, prosecutors drop the last Little Rascals charges against remaining defendants Bob&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=507\">&#8216;They saw themselves as the good guys&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 21, 2012 Lee Coleman, a Berkeley, Calif.,\u00a0 psychiatrist and co-author of \u201cHas a Child Been Molested?\u201d (2000), served as a consultant to the Little Rascals defense. \u201cWhen I examined&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=504\">An encore for ritual abuse panic? &#8216;You can bet on it&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 18, 2012 \u201cDiscredited child-sex rings like McMartin actually may not be a bogeyman of the past. Some parents, therapists and child-protection professionals continue to believe ritual sex abuse took&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=502\">When therapists ignore what researchers have learned&#8230;.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 16, 2012 \u201cThe researcher-therapist gap came to public attention because of three psychological epidemics, which spread like wildfire during the 1980s and \u201990s: recovered memory, multiple-personality disorder and sex-abuse&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=499\">&#8216;Though others&#8217; perceptions have changed&#8230;.&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 14, 2012 Mary De Young\u2019s engrossing bibliography \u201cThe Ritual Abuse Controversy\u201d lists page after page of books and journal articles that accept wholeheartedly the existence of an epidemic of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=497\">Surviving tape undercuts officer&#8217;s testimony<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 11, 2012 \u201cOne of the attorneys preparing the appeal brief for Mr. Kelly found a tape of an interview with a child that had been taped over with another&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=495\">Prosecutors have upper hand in plea bargains<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 9, 2012 \u201cA Question of Innocence: A True Story of False Accusation\u201d by Lawrence D. Spiegel was published in 1986, but this passage \u2013 lamenting plea-bargains by those falsely&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=493\">Prognosis uncertain for misled child-witnesses<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 7, 2012 From an exchange with Stephen Ceci, author (with Maggie Bruck) of the landmark \u201cJeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children\u2019s Testimony\u201d (1995): Q:\u00a0What may have&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=491\">Leading questions, not spontaneity, marked interviews<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 4, 2012 \u201cWritten reports that contain statements such as \u2018The child said that Mr. Bob told them secrets\u2019 are meaningless. \u201cWe need to know whether this was a spontaneous&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=489\">Children abused, but not by Edenton Seven<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">May 2, 2012 \u201cIronically, the children are indeed being sexually and emotionally abused by the therapists, officials and medical personnel who are supposed to be protecting them, and they often&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=487\">Prosecutors turned on by nonexistent porn tape<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 30, 2012 \u201cProsecutors are reviewing pornographic videotapes seized in Montana.... A man identified as Willard Scott Privott appears wearing a pirate costume in a boat full of children, according&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=483\">One less platform for ritual-abuse fantasizers<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 27, 2012 Friday news roundup: \u25a0 Darkness to Light, the Charleston-based nonprofit with the goal \u201cEnd Child Abuse,\u201d has responded to\u00a0my request to disassociate itself\u00a0from one of the last&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=481\">McMartin interviewers showed way for Little Rascals<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 25, 2012 \u201cMany questions were repeated (by interviewers in the McMartin Preschool case) even when the children had previously given unambiguous answers. \u201cFor example, after a child responded that&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=479\">Lamb &#8216;continues to hold herself out as an expert&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 23, 2012 In 2007, W. Joseph Wyatt, writing in the professional journal The Behavior Analyst Today, looked back at the Little Rascals case: \u201cProsecutors appeared to have little appreciation&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=476\">Scholarship minus skepticism = academic sham<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 20, 2012 David Finkelhor\u2019s \u201cNursery Crimes: Sexual Abuse in Day Care\u201d (1988) helped lay the foundation for the moral panic that would soon engulf Edenton and so many other&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=473\">Parents saw nothing amiss until rumors took hold<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 18, 2012 \u201cOne of the more surprising aspects of this (Little Rascals) case.... was that none of the parents... had observed anything that caused them to suspect their children&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=471\">&#8216;Juvenile renderings of grownups&#8217; anxieties&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 16, 2012 \u201cAt the beginning of each ritual-abuse case, the children had been eminently reliable, but what they communicated was that they had not been molested by satanists. Indeed,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=468\">&#8216;Overzealous intervenors&#8217; muddy waters in abuse cases<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 13, 2012 \u201cA decade-long investigation by the FBI has found no evidence linking child abuse with organized satanic cults. \u201cIn a recent report by the agency, Special Agent Kenneth&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=466\">Ideal child prosecution-witness is 3 or 4 years old<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 11, 2012 \u201cAlmost always you find the kids are three or four years old. \u201cThe two-year-olds are no good because they can't speak well enough and are totally unreliable&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=462\">Who killed the ritual abuse day care panic?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 9, 2012 \u201cWhere do epidemics go when they die?.... Have all the sadistic pedophiles closed down their day-care centers?\u201d \u2013 From \u201cMistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)\u201d by&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=458\">&#8216;Parent-experts&#8217; found meaning where there was none<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 6, 2012 \u201cParent-experts made a specific kind of sense of their children\u2019s behaviors and emotions by retrospectively interpreting them as sequelae of day care ritual abuse rather than as&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=455\">French prosecutors erred \u2013 and admitted it!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 4, 2012 \u201cAn appeals court Thursday overturned the conviction of six people accused of participating in a pedophilia ring in northern France five years ago, unraveling one of the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=453\">What jurors learned from &#8216;Every Mother&#8217;s Worst Fear&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">April 2, 2012 Among the contaminants reported in the deliberations of the first Little Rascals jury was a Redbook article used to profile Bob Kelly as a child molester. Its&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=448\">&#8216;We&#8217;ve learned a lot&#8230;.&#8217; (Too bad it took so long)<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 30, 2012 Kee MacFarlane\u00a0is the notorious therapist who led the ritual abuse scare of the late 1980s\u00a0(and pioneered the misuse of anatomically correct dolls in interviewing children). In just&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=446\">Prosecutors learned wrong lesson from McMartin<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 28, 2012 Had North Carolina prosecutors been interested in anything other than racking up convictions, they would\u2019ve given earnest consideration to analyses such as this one in the Los&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=442\">McMartin: Patient Zero in day-care abuse contagion?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 26, 2012 How did the moral panic over day-care ritual abuse spread so widely? Did some undetected psychotropic waft from Manhattan Beach to Edenton to Christchurch, New Zealand? I&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=438\">Forensic evaluator or therapist? A distinction not made<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 23, 2012 \u201cA given professional must undertake either a forensic examination or therapy, not both, with any given child. \u201cThe roles of forensic evaluator and ongoing therapist are different.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=435\">Tracey Cline, Mike Nifong and H.P. Williams<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 21, 2012 \u201cIn July 1993, (Tracey Cline) headed to the state's northeast corner to work as a prosecutor in a cluster of counties near Elizabeth City. Her stint there&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=432\">&#8216;The right man&#8217; was the wrong man? No way!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 19, 2012 In \u201cThe Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life\u201d (2011), Robert Trivers briefly addresses the causes and costs of the ritual abuse&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=430\">Court finds Hart&#8217;s ploy &#8216;grossly improper&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 16, 2012 \u201cThe appeals court called a maneuver (in Dawn Wilson\u2019s trial) by the chief special prosecutor, Bill Hart, \u2018grossly improper.\u2019 \u201cThe judges found that Hart had tried to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=427\">The ugly truth about &#8216;Nancy Lamb&#8217;s state of mind&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 14, 2012 \u201cProsecutor Nancy Lamb practiced a little \u2018voodoo\u2019 psychology by telling the jury that when Dawn Wilson held and played with her child during breaks in the trial,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=424\">Was it really Dawn Wilson who &#8216;had no character&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 12, 2012 After reading thousands of pages of Little Rascals coverage, shouldn\u2019t I have become inured to the prosecution\u2019s gratuitous brutality? Not yet. On August 11, 1993, Dawn Wilson,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=419\">Lessons from a Windshield Pitting Epidemic<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 9, 2012 \u201cThis\u00a0(Breezy Point Day School) case\u00a0sounds like the Windshield Pitting Epidemic.... \u201cIn the early 1950s, people in the Tacoma-Seattle area began to notice little pits in the windshields&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=417\">Nancy Lamb goes mum but &#8216;has the most to answer for&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 7, 2012 \u201cThe one voice we most want to hear is that of Assistant District Attorney Nancy Lamb, who went after the Little Rascals defendants with the righteousness of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=413\">Why prosecutors can&#8217;t admit they&#8217;re wrong<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 5, 2012 \u201cDURHAM -- Tracey Cline could not admit she was wrong....\u201d Thus begins\u00a0J. Andrew Curliss\u2019s latest behavioral analysis\u00a0of Durham County\u2019s latest disgraced district attorney. Coincidentally, Curliss cites a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=410\">What happens to kids programmed with lies?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">March 2, 2012 In 1995 John Money, professor emeritus of medical psychology and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, asked: \u201cWhat happens to these kids who have been programmed to believe&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=407\">&#8216;Believe the children!&#8217; (unless they deny being abused)<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 29, 2012 \u201cThe battle cry of those leading the charge in these cases is \u2018Believe the children!\u2019 In fact, the trouble always begins when adults do not believe children&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=404\">Nancy Lamb takes up career in &#8216;quality control&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 27, 2012 \u201cOne (change made by District Attorney Frank Parrish) was the assignment of Assistant District Attorney Nancy Lamb as \u2018Chief Assistant District Attorney,\u2019 making one of her duties&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=400\">Hit-and-run prosecutors, therapists don&#8217;t look back<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 24, 2012 \u201cSamuel Sewall was one of nine judges appointed to hear the Salem witch trials in 1692. \u201cFive years later he stood up in church in front of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=398\">Constitution prohibits &#8216;punishment in limbo&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 22, 2012 \u201c(Even as) prosecutors quietly dropped all charges against the remaining three defendants, (Nancy Lamb) had the temerity to hint that there was sufficient evidence to convict if&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=395\">A pediatrician looks back at &#8216;ritual abuse&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 20, 2012 Cynthia Brown, medical director of the Mountain Child Medical Evaluation Program at Mission Children\u2019s Hospital in Asheville, was among the first pediatricians credentialed in the subspecialty of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=390\">Therapists &#8216;overzealous&#8230; inadequately trained&#8230; unethical&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 17, 2012 \u201cThe named children were sent to predominantly four therapists (Betty Robertson, Judy Abbott, Susan Childers and\u00a0Michele Zimmerman). \u201cThe therapists were not only overzealous and inadequately trained, but&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=385\">A last chance at freedom \u2013\u00a0or the end of the road<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 15, 2012 I asked Mark Montgomery for an update on Junior Chandler\u2019s latest appeal of his two life sentences for child sexual abuse: \u201cThere are two prongs to the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=381\">UNCG professor showed no tolerance for skepticism<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 13, 2012 \u201cIt is evident that, although mistakes were made in the handling of the (Little Rascals) case, these children definitely were sexually abused by one or more individuals&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=377\">An antipodal view: What would Bronte have thought?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 10, 2012 \u201c(The scene of\u00a0children screaming invective at a prison-bound Bob Kelly)\u00a0was... the graphic heart of the documentary.... \u201cThe car pulled away, and they began to giggle self-consciously. A&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=373\">The long goodbye: &#8216;See you in a million years&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 8, 2012 The indignities endured by Little Rascals defendants were unending and sometimes bizarre. A University of Georgia professor enlisted by the defense to conduct a\u00a0penile plethysmograph\u00a0reported that Bob&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=369\">Therapist, prosecutor worked 4-year-old as tag team<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 6, 2012 Michele L. Zimmerman, now associate professor emeritus of psychiatric nursing at Old Dominion University, was one of four therapists who collaborated with prosecutors in interviewing Bob Kelly\u2019s&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=366\">Privott&#8217;s allies found way around $1 million bail<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 3, 2012 Glenn Lancaster, a Raleigh pay-phone executive, played a key part in facilitating life-after-incarceration for both Bob Kelly and Scott Privott. I asked Glenn to recall how he&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=363\">That&#8217;s our case, and we&#8217;re sticking to it (cont.)<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Feb. 1, 2012 The HBO documentary \"Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory\"\u00a0\u00a0surely deserves its Oscar nomination, although the only edge it holds over Ofra Bikel\u2019s \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d trilogy of the \u201990s is&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=359\">Junior Chandler victimized by overreaching experts<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 31, 2012 Expert vouching. That odd little legalism is the crucial issue in Junior Chandler's\u00a0latest \u2013 and perhaps last \u2013 shot at justice. Durham attorney Mark Montgomery has just&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=356\">Montaigne and St. Augustine, of course, were never DAs<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 27, 2012 In \u201cThe Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal\u201d (2002), James Franklin points out that Montaigne opposed witch trials for their lack of evidence. \u201cI am&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=354\">Did fear of Bob Kelly keep women behind bars?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 25, 2012 I\u2019ve heard again from the anonymous caller who responded to my ad in the Elizabeth City Advance addressing children involved in the Little Rascals case. The caller&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=344\">25 years of wrongful imprisonment \u2013 and counting<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 23, 2012 Last week I visited\u00a0Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution\u00a0in Spruce Pine to talk to\u00a0Junior Chandler, who soon will have served 25 years on charges strikingly similar to those in the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=342\">Prosecutors&#8217; motto: But they&#8217;re still guilty!<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 20, 2012 Although the West Memphis Three weren\u2019t day care workers, their notorious case \u2013 most recently updated in HBO\u2019s \u201cParadise Lost 3: Purgatory\u201d \u2013 holds obvious parallels to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=340\">Why would prosecutors let &#8216;monster&#8217; walk?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 18, 2012 \u201cOne way or another, justice has failed miserably in the agonizing case of the Little Rascals Day Care.... Last week, eight years after launching an investigation into&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=336\">The darkness that lurks behind Darkness to Light<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 16, 2012 Darkness to Light\u00a0is a Charleston-based nonprofit with the goal \u201cEnd Child Abuse.\u201d Since its founding in 2000, D2L claims to have trained adults in 48 states and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=333\">&#8216;I am now convinced I was terribly wrong&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 13, 2012 For months I have been fruitlessly searching the record for a public apology from even one prominent perpetrator of the ritual-abuse day-care hoax. At last I have&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=331\">How much like Penn State were day-care cases?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 11, 2012 \u201cIt\u2019s worth remembering, in the 1980s we had a whole spate of false accusations of... sexual abuse of children. The McMartin Preschool, all those supposed satanic cults&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=327\">Among the costs of incarceration: a marriage<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 9, 2012 Perhaps the most inexplicable of the prosecution\u2019s targets was 40-year-old Scott Privott, owner of an Edenton video store and shoe repair shop. Son of a district court&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=325\">Does &#8216;convicting innocent people count as crime&#8217;?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 6, 2012 \u201cInnocence Lost\u201d aired too late to save the Edenton Seven, but its influence in deflating the nation\u2019s ritual-abuse bubble is hard to exaggerate. Shock and outrage \u2013&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=322\">Journalists, too, suffer &#8216;incurable blind spots&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 4, 2012 \u201cA few years back, I met a fellow investigative journalist in North Carolina....The subject came around to the Little Rascals case. He assured me the day care&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=107\">&#8216;You believe a dozen kids just made up lies?&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Jan. 2, 2012 Next to \u201cWhy are you doing this?\u201d the question I\u2019m most often asked about Little Rascals is, \u201cSince the trial, what has happened with the kids?\u201d For&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"display-posts-title\">2011<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=310\">Nifong had sympathizer in H.P. Williams<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 30, 2011 \u201cAs the May 2 (2006) Democratic primary nears, (Duke lacrosse prosecutor Mike) Nifong has gotten an earful from his two opponents.... \u201c \u2018I feel for him; no&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=307\">Prosecution kept its eye on the (wrong) target<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 28, 2011 \u201cThroughout the trial, prosecuting attorneys (in the Little Rascals case) repeatedly pursued their hunches without an apparent desire to test an alternate theory. This resulted in a&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=304\">&#8216;Keep telling the defendants&#8217; story&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 26, 2011 \u201cWhen I saw \u2018Innocence Lost\u2019 on PBS, I was outraged. The defendants received a bad deal from the state of North Carolina.... \u201cThank you for building and&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=301\">&#8216;Overwhelming power&#8217; in the worst possible hands<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 23, 2011 \u201cMany appalling results of the recovered-memory movement of the 1970s and \u201980s arose from ... unexamined views of memory \u2013 occurrences like the false accusations of employees&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=299\">&#8216;Is it not plain that people had frightened their children?&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 21, 2011 \u201cIs it not plain that the people had frightened their children with so many tales that they could not sleep without dreaming of the devil, and then&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=297\">Case was boon to DA&#8217;s team of therapists<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 19, 2011 \u201cIn the Little Rascals case, a handful of therapists were compensated by the state for evaluating and \u2018treating\u2019 the child witnesses. But there seemed to be other&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=292\">&#8216;Facts in direct conflict with charges by parents&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 16, 2011 Alan Rubenstein, who as district attorney refused to prosecute the Breezy Point case, is now a Bucks County Court judge. Unlike H.P. Williams Jr., who was D.A.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=206\">For witch hunts, it&#8217;s location location location<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 14, 2011 Among the leaders of the Committee for Support of the Edenton Seven was Doug Wiik, whose own Breezy Point Day School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, had just&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=203\">How one DA refused to yield to madness<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 12, 2011 \u201c(In 1989) when the Breezy Point Day School in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, was subjected to an elaborate skein of charges of satanic and ritualistic sex abuse (District Attorney&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=199\">Imagining my part of a chat with H.P. Williams Jr.<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 9, 2011 Had former district attorney H.P. Williams Jr. let our conversation drag on\u00a0beyond 30 seconds\u00a0on Wednesday, here are some questions I might have asked: \u2013 In all the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=197\">Ex-D.A. &#8216;not in a position to talk about it&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 7, 2011 H. P. Williams Jr. was district attorney during the Little Rascals trial. He now practices\u00a0criminal defense law in Elizabeth City. I called to ask whether he had&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=194\">Professional child abuse: Creating false memories<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 5, 2011 In this (Nov. 29) New York\u00a0Times analysis\u00a0of science\u2019s ever-growing skepticism about eyewitness testimony I noticed a familiar name: \u201cOne of the earliest and more famous experiments to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=191\">How Bill Hart got better at playing dirty<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Dec. 2, 2011 \u201cVideotaped interviews made during the early cases (alleging day care ritual sex abuse) show that when children were allowed to speak freely, either they had nothing to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=188\">How were defendants so skillful at dressing kids?<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 30, 2011 \u201cYou have to start with the matter of probability. What every one of these (day care sex abuse) cases has in common is that no adult observer&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=269\">Parents ill-prepared to practice psychology<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 28, 2011 \u201cThe Little Rascals case offers a trove of testimony illustrating how immersion into the popular psychology of sexual abuse gave parent-experts the terms and concepts to retrospectively&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=185\">Parents&#8217; gullibility &#8216;grounded in anxiety&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 25, 2011 \u201cIn the prototypical witch hunts in Europe and in the Massachusetts colony, the accused were often scapegoats for some calamity \u2013 disease, bad harvests, the birth of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=183\">Imprisonment &#8216;without having to prove a thing&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 23, 2011 \u201cFinally, after eight years, the Little Rascals case is over. We can consign to history what has to be the most bizarre and disturbing episode in the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=180\">Chaplain writes memoir about supporting defendants<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 21, 2011 Raymond Lawrence, the New York City chaplain who founded the Committee for Support of the Edenton Seven, was an attentive and often appalled observer\u00a0at Bob Kelly\u2019s trial.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=176\">Good sense proved no match for gossip<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 18, 2011 \u201cGossip serves to fill up the vacuum of many people's lives. It adds spice and excitement .... \u201c \u02bbI would never have imagined it,\u02bc say the neighborhood&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=174\">Prosecutors couldn&#8217;t buy off &#8216;depraved&#8217; defendants<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 16, 2011 \u201cThe Little Rascals defendants never wavered in their contention that the allegations were untrue. Not one testified against the other, even though prosecutors commonly offer leniency to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=170\">Anonymous sympathizer gave $750,000<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 14, 2011 Raymond Lawrence, then director of chaplains for Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, attended Bob Kelly\u2019s trial on several occasions and founded the Committee for Support of&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=164\">In the beginning, there was a paranoid schizophrenic<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 11, 2011 \u201cThe first case to raise alarms about predators in nursery schools was that involving the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California.... In 1983, a woman named Judy&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=162\">Parents stake claim on &#8216;years of trauma and persecution&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 9, 2011 \u201cFear recaptured the 9-year-old, much as it had six years ago when last he left Bob Kelly's day care. Lingering fears gripped many of Kelly's victims when&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=160\">Brent Adams &#038; Associates begins to clean up its act<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 7, 2011 Last week I mentioned a misleading characterization on the website of the Raleigh personal-injury law firm\u00a0Brent Adams &amp; Associates: \u201cA highly publicized case occurred in coastal North&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=157\">Prosecutors followed playbook from 16th century<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 4, 2011 \u201cA mere suspicion of witchcraft justifies the immediate arrest and torture of the suspected person.... \u201cA prisoner may be promised immunity or reduced punishment if he accuses&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=135\">Chapel Hill therapist was nothing if not certain<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 2, 2011 Post on\u00a0hidden mysteries.org\u00a0(1995): \u201cAside from the children and their parents, others are deeply disappointed by the N.C. Supreme Court\u2019s decision not to (overturn) the reversals by the&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=133\">Brent Adams &#038; Associates, clean up your act<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 31, 2011 \u201cA highly publicized case occurred in coastal North Carolina almost 30 years ago. Making national headlines, the Little Rascals Day Care Center was run by a husband-and-wife&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=131\">The prosecution&#8217;s failures<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 28, 2011 \u201cIf the defendants were guilty, the prosecution failed. \u201cIf the defendants were innocent, the prosecution failed. \u201cThe prosecution failed at everything but taking years from people's lives,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=129\">A theory on &#8216;the seeds of this case&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 26, 2011 \u201cMany of the investigators in the Little Rascals case (seem to have been) poised to find allegations of sexual abuse. \u201cThe seeds of this case may have&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=126\">Other victims of the &#8216;decade of moral panic&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 24, 2011 It\u2019s almost obscene to consider the Edenton Seven as lucky, but at least they eventually went free. Mark Montgomery, the Durham appellate lawyer who represented Bob Kelly,&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=123\">Kelly used hard work to survive hard time<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 21, 2011 How would\u00a0you\u00a0handle six years behind bars after being wrongfully convicted?\u00a0Here\u2019s how Bob Kelly did it: \u201cIn jail (in Chowan County before being found guilty) there was nothing&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=120\">Children showed courage not to &#8216;remember&#8217; abuse<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 19, 2011 Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education in 2003, social psychologist Carol Tavris noted that: \u201cOne mother (in the Little Rascals case) told reporters that it took&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=117\">N.C. law stacked deck against defendants<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 17, 2011 The two largest ritual-abuse day-care cases \u2013 Little Rascals in Edenton and McMartin in California \u2013 bore many similarities but McMartin resulted in not a single conviction.&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=115\">Why we could see another Little Rascals case<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 12, 2011 In the digital age more than ever before, no bad idea ever dies. Consider (neo)Nazism, creationism and vaccine-caused autism. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary,\u00a0ritual sex abuse&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=61\">Bob Kelly: &#8216;I had nothing to be ashamed of&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Oct. 11, 2011 In 1989 Bob Kelly was charged with 100 counts of child molestation. In 1992 he was convicted and sentenced to 12 consecutive life sentences. In 1995 his&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=230\">The John Chancellor Award, 2007<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Nov. 13, 2007 Below are two excerpts from a video made of the 2007 John Chancellor awards ceremony. It was on Nov. 13, 2007 that the award named for longtime&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1889\">&#8216;Innocence Lost: The Plea&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\"Innocence Lost: The Plea\" was first aired May 27, 1997. In most browsers, the video will load for several seconds, or more depending on download speeds, before being ready to&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1903\">&#8216;Innocence Lost: The Verdict, Part Two&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\"Innocence Lost: The Verdict Part Two\" was first aired July 21, 1997. In most browsers, the video will load for several seconds, or more depending on download speeds, before being&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1910\">&#8216;Innocence Lost: The Verdict, Part One&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\"Innocence Lost: The Verdict, Part One\" was first aired July 20, 1993. In most browsers, the video will load for several seconds, or more depending on download speeds, before being&hellip; <span class=\"excerpt-more\"><\/span><\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1913\">&#8216;Innocence Lost&#8217;<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">\"Innocence Lost\" was first aired May 7, 1991. 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