July 24, 2013<\/p>\n
\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 children disclosing to me…. Most of the children were not telling me specifically about Mr. Bob.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201c \u2018Red flags,\u2019 however, caused her to continue her questioning. The \u2018red flags\u2019 included children being tense when the subject of the day-care center was mentioned, she said, and not talking to her as normal children would.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 From the Associated Press (December 4, 1991)<\/em><\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t take much reading between the lines to see Brenda Toppin\u2019s persistence in the face of \u201cvery few children disclosing to me\u201d or her overreaction to those absurdly vague \u201cred flags.\u201d<\/p>\n A surviving fragment of tape laid out even more saliently her\u00a0abusive interview technique<\/a>. Read for yourself\u00a0a transcript<\/a>\u00a0of one of Toppin’s interviews with a child. The transcript entered the court record during the appeals process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 children disclosing to me…. Most of the children were not telling me specifically about Mr. Bob.\u2019 \u201c \u2018Red flags,\u2019 however, caused her to continue her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}