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Oct. 14, 2013<\/p>\nOct. 14, 2013<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether Nancy Lamb should be promoted to district attorney is not simply a question of Democrats vs. Republicans. (Lamb is a Democrat; the decision on whether to appoint her to fill the rest of the late\u00a0Frank Parrish\u2019s term<\/a>\u00a0rests with Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican.)<\/p>\n \u201cA quarter-century ago, Lamb played a crucial role in the wrongful prosecution of the Edenton Seven, defendants in the Little Rascals Day Care case. Little Rascals was an especially notorious example of a wave of \u2018satanic ritual abuse\u2019 day-care prosecutions during the ’80s and early ’90s — virtually all of them based on hysteria and a misguided campaign to \u2018Believe the Children.\u2019 Today no respected social scientist believes these bizarre claims were anything more than a \u2018moral panic.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cAlthough she ranked below District Attorney H. P. Williams and Assistant Attorney General Bill Hart, it was Nancy Lamb who served not only as the prosecution\u2019s closer in the courtroom, but also its public face. And it was Lamb who, after Williams dropped off the case, continued to cling to the discredited \u2018ritual abuse\u2019 fantasy and who vindictively conjured up an unrelated charge against Bob Kelly after his conviction had been resoundingly overturned by the North Carolina Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n \u201cLittle Rascals will remain a stain on the state of North Carolina until the Edenton Seven receive a statement of innocence such as that given the Duke lacrosse defendants. Neither the prosecutors nor their ill-trained therapists have ever expressed any regrets or made any amends. To even be considered for district attorney, Nancy Lamb should be willing to address her responsibility. If she still wants to argue that the defendants were guilty, let her do so.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 From a letter I wrote last week to the Elizabeth City\u00a0<\/em>Daily Advance<\/em><\/a>, the only\u00a0daily newspaper in the seven-county First Prosecutorial District,\u00a0taking issue with its editorial support of Nancy Lamb\u2019s appointment\u00a0as district attorney.\u00a0<\/em>Editorial is here<\/em><\/a>;\u00a0page PDF<\/a>;\u00a0text cache<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The 900-word editorial could come up with \u201conly one possible explanation for McCrory\u2019s reluctance to appoint her: partisan politics.\u201d Unmentioned was Lamb\u2019s responsibility in the district\u2019s most infamous case \u2013 perhaps the Advance has forgotten? Or thinks she deserves to benefit from a prosecutorial statute of limitations?<\/p>\n My letter has yet to appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oct. 14, 2013 \u201cWhether Nancy Lamb should be promoted to district attorney is not simply a question of Democrats vs. Republicans. (Lamb is a Democrat; the decision on whether to appoint her to fill the rest of the late\u00a0Frank Parrish\u2019s term\u00a0rests with Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican.) \u201cA quarter-century ago, Lamb played a crucial role […]<\/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-1098","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\/1098","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=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}