{"id":1158,"date":"2014-01-24T17:03:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T17:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2016-07-03T21:18:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T21:18:03","slug":"responses-to-no-op-ed-vary-dramatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"Responses to N&O op-ed vary dramatically"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"140124N&OResponse\"Jan. 24, 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cPowell is right (in this News & Observer column<\/a>). The state should exonerate those wrongly convicted members of the Edenton Seven and the wrongly accused who were never convicted but had their lives ruined.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Innocence Project has freed men wrongly accused of murder or rape, but there seems to be little interest in making amends for those wrongly accused of abusing children, no matter how fantastical the accusations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 From \u201cEdenton Seven: hysteria, false accusations,<\/a>\u00a0ruined lives<\/a>\u201d\u00a0at\u00a0<\/em>Erstwhile Editor<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Jan. 14)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be hard, in calmer times, to imagine the power of a moral panic like the one in Edenton, itself part of a broader national hysteria. Lisa (Scheer) and I wrote about the case (in Elle magazine<\/a>)\u00a0and in our reporting found a community where rational people seemed afraid to dissent from the fantastical narrative.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs young parents ourselves we were sympathetic to the families we met, but clearly things had gone very wrong in Chowan County.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 From \u201c<\/em>Injustice in Edenton<\/em><\/a>\u201d by Edward Cone (Jan. 14)<\/em><\/p>\n

And three online responses from the N&O:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cA few months after (Bob) Kelly’s release I met him briefly. He had a job maintaining pay phones (for Glenn Lancaster<\/a>), one of which was located in a pizzeria I was managing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked him if he was indeed who I thought he was and he said yes. When I told him I believed him and considered the accusations against him ridiculous on their face, he thanked me and appeared to be grateful for the moral support. What struck me was the lowly financial state he seemed to be reduced to and the humiliation he so clearly had to endure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Bruce Henry<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Powell has forgotten Dorothy Rabinowitz, the Wall Street Journal journalist\/commentator who received one of her numerous Pulitzer nominations for a series on the Edenton witch hunts. Those articles were some of the most powerful and insightful I have read in my life. I recall wondering why no North Carolina newspaper had the guts to stand up and condemn the witch trial hysteria and obvious travesty of justice taking place right in their own back yard.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 James Gamble<\/em><\/p>\n

Rabinowitz reported heroically on the ritual abuse epidemic, but she focused mostly on cases in Maplewood, N.J.; Malden, Mass., and Wenatchee, Wash., rather than in Edenton.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so glad to know that you were in Edenton at that time and you know exactly what happened. Do you really think a child molester is doing to admit what they did? I don’t think so!!!<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m sure you will allow them to baby sit your children or grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Lu Ann Lewis Barber<\/em><\/p>\n

Actually, I\u2019d be glad to allow that \u2013 what potential babysitter has ever been more thoroughly vetted than the Edenton Seven?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jan. 24, 2014 \u201cPowell is right (in this News & Observer column). The state should exonerate those wrongly convicted members of the Edenton Seven and the wrongly accused who were never convicted but had their lives ruined. \u201cThe Innocence Project has freed men wrongly accused of murder or rape, but there seems to be little […]<\/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-1158","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\/1158","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=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}