{"id":1286,"date":"2014-08-17T02:40:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T02:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2016-01-23T22:06:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T22:06:32","slug":"second-thoughts-from-a-ritual-abuse-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Second thoughts from a &#8216;ritual abuse&#8217; prosecutor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1287\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/140817Rubin.jpg\" alt=\"140817Rubin\" width=\"260\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/140817Rubin.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/140817Rubin-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Aug. 17, 2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI\u2019m not comfortable commenting on any of them at this point in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Lael Rubin, formerly the lead prosecutor in the McMartin Preschool case,\u00a0declining to say whether she still thinks the defendants were guilty<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u00a0That\u2019s not the only eyebrow-raiser in this recent 30-years-after piece by a Los Angeles\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2014\/08\/04\/30-years-later-key-figures-reflect-on-mcmartin-child-abuse-case\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\">TV station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Rubin contends that \u201cThe strongest evidence, the physical evidence, the medical evidence, I think was very significant.\u201d But Kevin Cody, who logged more hours in the courtroom than any other journalist, confirms my impression that the prosecution actually produced \u201czero medical evidence of abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Finally, Rubin credits the McMartin case with improvements in the interviewing of children: \u201cThe criminal justice system, interviewers and police, law enforcement are much more concerned about eliciting information from children, as opposed to giving them clues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">This is disingenuous. Like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=996\">John E. B. Myers<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=448\">Kee MacFarlane<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1277\">Sylvia Gillotte<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Rubin tips her hat to progress but refuses to take the logical next step: admitting the injustices issuing from those McMartin-style interrogations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 17, 2014 \u201cI\u2019m not comfortable commenting on any of them at this point in time.\u201d \u2013 Lael Rubin, formerly the lead prosecutor in the McMartin Preschool case,\u00a0declining to say whether she still thinks the defendants were guilty \u00a0That\u2019s not the only eyebrow-raiser in this recent 30-years-after piece by a Los Angeles\u00a0TV station. Rubin contends [&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-1286","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\/1286","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=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}