{"id":1081,"date":"2013-09-25T10:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T10:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2016-01-17T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T15:55:21","slug":"you-had-to-have-been-there-or-did-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"You had to have been there (or did you?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Sept. 25, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cPeer group pressure&#8230; is a factor that should be considered when there is an allegation of sexual abuse involving multiple victims. Children in Edenton who never attended the day care, but who had peers who attended, claimed to have been abused at the day care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cDuring her testimony for the defense,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=514\">Dr. Maggie Bruck<\/a>\u00a0described a scientific study in which two actors went into a classroom of 28 children to give a talk. During the talk one of the actors knocked a large birthday cake off a piano. Seven children had been removed from the room and did not observe the event. Later when the children were interviewed six of the seven children who had not been present not only claimed to have been there but described the event as if they had been present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cEvidence Issues and \u2018Lessons\u2019 from State v. Kelly: Litigation\u00a0of Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse\u201d by Jeffrey L. Miller and\u00a0W. Michael Spivey, presented at the 6th annual North Carolina\u00a0Criminal Evidence Seminar, UNC School of Law (April 16, 1993)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 25, 2013 \u201cPeer group pressure&#8230; is a factor that should be considered when there is an allegation of sexual abuse involving multiple victims. Children in Edenton who never attended the day care, but who had peers who attended, claimed to have been abused at the day care. \u201cDuring her testimony for the defense,\u00a0Dr. Maggie [&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-1081","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\/1081","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=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}