{"id":1087,"date":"2013-10-02T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T10:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2016-01-04T10:52:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T10:52:27","slug":"newspaper-saw-kelly-conviction-as-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper saw Kelly conviction as &#8216;breakthrough&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Oct. 2, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c&#8230;It&#8217;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&#8230;. The conviction\u00a0 increases public awareness of child abuse, serves notice that children should be taken seriously when they show signs of abuse, and calls attention to improved methods of handling such prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cSince another long and costly child abuse case at a California day-care center nearly a decade ago that ended less conclusively than the one in North Carolina, prosecutors have learned much. They have learned how to question children without prompting them, have developed better investigative methods, and have improved the coordination between different agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cBut that&#8217;s not enough. Parents need to be more alert to detecting possible child abuse and more careful about picking safe, responsible day care centers. Despite this week&#8217;s conviction&#8230; it would be wrong and unfair to conclude that many day-care workers are degenerates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deseretnews.com\/article\/222924\/HOW-TO-GUARD-AGAINST-CHILD-ABUSE.html?pg=all\" target=\"_blank\"><em>How to Guard Against Child Abuse<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d in the\u00a0Deseret News of Salt Lake City (April 25 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">During the era of day-care ritual-abuse allegations, most newspaper editorials managed to maintain at least a modicum of skepticism. Not this one \u2013 unless you count the Deseret News\u2019 acknowledging a modicum of doubt \u201cthat many day-care workers are degenerates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 2, 2013 \u201c&#8230;It&#8217;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&#8230;. The conviction\u00a0 increases public awareness of child abuse, serves notice that children should be taken seriously when they show signs of abuse, and calls attention to improved methods [&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-1087","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\/1087","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=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}