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For introductions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Though last updated in 1997, Frontline’s\u00a0“Innocence Lost” website<\/a>\u00a0remains the most comprehensive single source for reporting on the Little Rascals Day Care case.<\/p>\n

Especially useful: a\u00a0chronology<\/a>, profiles of the\u00a0defendants<\/a>, a\u00a0roundtable discussion<\/a>\u00a0of the case\u2019s legal and scientific issues, excerpts from\u00a0children\u2019s testimony<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0closing arguments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And you don\u2019t want to miss prosecutor Nancy Lamb\u2019s breathtakingly self-righteous journal article “The Little Rascals Day Care Case: The Ingredients of Two Successful Prosecutions<\/a>” (1994).<\/p>\n

Overviews of the Little Rascals case<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Answers in Action<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0 \u201cChild Sex Scandals: Modern Day Witch-Hunt<\/a>?\u201d CBS Correspondent Mike Wallace\u2019s 1999 report for the \u201c20th Century\u201d documentary series, which opens with the McMartin Pre-School case in California and includes\u00a0 a segment on the Little Rascals case.<\/p>\n

Court documents<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2013\u00a0Brief for Bob Kelly<\/a>\u00a0before North Carolina Court of Appeals (1994)<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Ruling<\/a>\u00a0by North Carolina Court of Appeals (1995)<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Transcript<\/a>\u00a0of an interview by Officer Brenda Toppin with a child witness, an addendum to the Defendant-Appellant’s brief #933SC676 filed April 21, 1994.<\/p>\n

Academic and professional publications<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2013 “Little Rascals Day Care Center Case:\u00a0The Bitter Lesson<\/a>, A Healthy Reminder,” by Judith Steltzner Abbott, Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, Vol. 3 (2), 1994.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Excerpts from “Family Violence Across\u00a0 the Lifespan<\/a>: An Introduction,” by Cindy L. Miller-Perrin, Ola W. Barnett, Robin D. Perrin. SAGE, Dec 21, 2010, 896 pp.<\/p>\n

\u2013 The Little Rascals Day Care Center Case: The\u00a0Ingredients of Two Successful Prosecutions<\/a>,” by Nancy B. Lamb. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, Vol. 3 (2), 1994.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u201cModern Witch Hunts<\/a>: How Media Have Mishandled Ritual Child-Sex-Abuse Cases,\u201d a master\u2019s thesis by David O. Loomis, UNC Chapel Hill, 1997.<\/p>\n

Case study of press coverage of the Little Rascals trials suggests that the shortcomings of media coverage \u201ccontributed to avoidable injustices that exercise of the press\u2019 watchdog responsibility could have prevented.\u201d Loomis, a former newspaper reporter and editor, now teaches journalism at\u00a0Indiana University of Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0 \u201cThe Little Rascals Day Care Center Case: A\u00a0Perspective on Medical Testimony<\/a>\u00a0in a Prominent Public Trial\u201d by Jean C. Smith, Desmond K. Runyan and Doren D. Fredrickson. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 1994<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u201cSexual Abuse<\/a>\u00a0of Children in Day Care Centers,\u201d by Susan J. Kelley, Renee Brant and Jill Waterman. Child Abuse & Neglect, January-February, 1993.<\/p>\n

\u2013 “What I Learned<\/a>\u00a0From the Edenton ‘Little Rascals Sex Abuse Trial,” by Moisy Shopper, M.D. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 29:513-527, 2009.<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u201cWhy False Beliefs Prevail<\/a>: the Little Rascals Child Sex Abuse Prosecutions\u201d by Anthony Oberschall in \u201cEssays in Honor of Raymond Boudon\u201d (2000).<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Draft working paper<\/a>\u00a0on Little Rascals Day Care case by Anthony Oberschall (2010). Unpublished.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Lesson plan<\/a>\u00a0on day care ritual abuse from Catherine Caldwell-Harris, associate professor of psychology, Boston University. Downloadable in Word.<\/p>\n

Coverage of Bob Kelly’s trial in The New York Times<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2013\u00a0First day<\/a>\u00a0(1991)<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Closing arguments<\/a>\u00a0(1992)<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Verdict<\/a>\u00a0(1992)<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Sentencing<\/a>\u00a0(1992)<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Reaction to “Innocence Lost”<\/a>\u00a0(1993)<\/p>\n

Commentary<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2013\u00a0Letter from Anthony Oberschall<\/a>, UNC Chapel Hill sociologist, to Dennis Rogers of the Raleigh News & Observer in response to the column \u201cWhat Happened in Edenton?\u201d (Jan. 28, 1993). Unpublished.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Opinion-page column<\/a>\u00a0submitted by Anthony Oberschall, UNC Chapel Hill sociologist, to the Raleigh News & Observer (circa July 1993). Unpublished.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Jonathan G. Harris suggests\u00a0“SBFAQ (Should Be Frequently Asked Questions)<\/a>\u00a0about Little Rascals, the Ritual Sexual Abuse Hoax and its costs” (1994).<\/p>\n

\u2013 William L. Anderson compares prosecutorial abuses in\u00a0Little Rascals and Duke lacrosse<\/a>\u00a0cases (1997).<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Carol Tavris puts Little Rascals in context of\u00a0wave of satanic ritual abuse charges\u00a0<\/a>against day care centers (1997).<\/p>\n

The Junior Chandler case<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2013 8-27-10 N.C. Supreme Court reversal<\/a> of lower-court ruling. The Supreme Court rejected Chandler\u2019s claim that court rulings between his 1987 conviction and 2007 made \u201csignificant change in the law pertaining to the admissibility of expert opinion evidence\u201d upon which the conviction rested.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a012-7-12\u00a0Appeal for commutation<\/a>\u00a0of sentence, appellate attorney Mark Montgomery to Gov. Bev Perdue.<\/p>\n

\u2013 3-25-14\u00a0Denial of commutation appeal<\/a>, from Pat Hensen, clemency administrator for Gov. Pat McCrory, to appellate attorney Mark Montgomery<\/p>\n

Etc.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2013 \u201cJustice Abused: A 1980s Witch Hunt\u201d by Tom Charlier and Shirley Downing, a January 1988 reprint of the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s series on\u00a0 \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d cases across the country. Download here in two parts: one<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 two<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0S.M.A.R.T. [Stop Mind control And Ritual Abuse Today]<\/a>\u00a0exemplifies the continuing if diminished alarmism over satanic ritual abuse. Not a lot about Little Rascals on this site, but a wide range of parallel allegations. Among them: There\u00a0really<\/i>\u00a0were<\/i>\u00a0tunnels beneath the\u00a0McMartin Preschool<\/a>\u00a0— and of course they were covered up by authorities.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0A chilling\u00a0timeline of the ritual abuse panic<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Public broadcasting journal interviews Ofra Bikel<\/a> about “Innocence Lost” (1997).<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Video excerpts from the 2007\u00a0John Chancellor Award<\/a>\u00a0ceremony, where Ofra Bikel was honored for her FRONTLINE and both Elizabeth “Betsy” Kelly and her sister Nancy Smith Barrow spoke.<\/p>\n

\u2013 For first-time publication here, Raymond Lawrence has written a memoir about founding the Committee for Support of the Edenton Seven and what he saw when he attended the trials.\u00a0Download the memoir in Word<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0\u201cThe Demons of Edenton<\/a>\u201d by Lisa Scheer and Edward Cone, 4 pp., Elle magazine (November 1993)<\/p>\n

\u2013 Letter from\u00a0Evan Harrington<\/a>\u00a0and others to the Travis County (Tex.) District Court challenging the expert testimony of Dr. Randy Noblitt in the 1992 conviction of Fran and Dan Keller.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Letter from N.C. Gov Jim Martin<\/a>, June 5, 1991, to a viewer of the Frontline series over issues raised about North Carolina justice.<\/p>\n

From the sixth annual North Carolina Criminal Evidence Seminar, UNC School of Law, April 16, 1993: <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2013 \u201c Evidence Issues and \u2018Lessons\u2019<\/a> from State v. Kelly: Litigation of Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse,\u201d presented by\u00a0 Jeffrey L. Miller and W. Michael Spivey<\/p>\n

\u2013 \u201cWhat Lessons Can We Learn<\/a> from State v. Miller\u201d by Miller, Spivey and Mark D, Montgomery, assistant appellate defender<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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