{"id":1072,"date":"2013-09-18T10:26:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T10:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2016-01-04T10:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T10:29:18","slug":"the-truth-is-not-a-smorgasbord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The truth is not a smorgasbord&#8230;.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Sept. 16, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\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 cooked in a microwave.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cBut they do believe her when she says, \u2018I helped my teacher put a playhandle in Karen\u2019s heinie\u2019 \u2013 even though one 3-year-old sodomizing another with a \u2018playhandle\u2019 an inch or 2 wide and not causing bleeding from a torn rectum is as unbelievable as cooking a child in a microwave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAccepting half a child\u2019s statement and rejecting the other (death by microwave) is capricious: The truth is not a smorgasbord from which we can choose the facts we fancy and leave behind those we do not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cMagical Child Molestation Trials: Edenton\u2019s Children\u00a0Accuse\u201d by Margaret Leong (1993)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 cooked in a microwave.\u2019 \u201cBut they do believe her when she says, \u2018I helped my teacher put a playhandle in Karen\u2019s heinie\u2019 \u2013 even though [&hellip;]<\/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-1072","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\/1072","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=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}