{"id":1372,"date":"2015-01-25T13:44:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2016-01-24T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T10:58:52","slug":"did-jurors-really-believe-poop-in-the-spaghetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"Did jurors really believe &#8216;poop in the spaghetti&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Jan. 25, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 You said that Mr. Bob made spaghetti at the day care&#8230;. Now, when did Mr. Bob say that there was poop in the spaghetti?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 After we, um, ate it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 All right. Did \u2013 did you ever have to eat poop at the day care?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 Okay. Did anybody try and make you eat poop at the day care?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q: Who?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 Mr. Bob.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 Tell me about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 You don\u2019t remember it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 Well, how do you know Mr. Bob tried to do it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 What?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 Did somebody tell you about it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 Okay. Well, then tell me how Mr. Bob tried to make you eat poop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 Um, he told me, um, to eat it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 Okay. Where was it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 I forgot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 You forgot. Well, was it in Ms. Shelly&#8217;s room?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 No.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 Was it in the kitchen?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 Okay. Well, did he make other kids eat poop while you were there?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Q:\u00a0 Okay. Well, um, what happened when they ate it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A:\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From defense attorney Jeffrey Miller\u2019s cross-examination of a child witness in the trial of Bob Kelly<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">This exchange represents only a tiny fraction of the 7-year-old girl\u2019s testimony, which stretched over two days and included similarly incoherent references to Kelly and other defendants having raped her, urinated in her mouth, threatened to kill her parents, sodomized her with pencils and sewing needles, taken her on boat and truck rides, forced her to witness the killing and burial of babies and small animals&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">How funny and trivial such childish imaginings would seem, if only the jury\u2019s gullibility hadn\u2019t sent Kelly to prison for six years. \u201cThe children were convincing,\u201d insisted\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1039\">rogue juror Dennis T. Ray<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 25, 2015 Q:\u00a0 You said that Mr. Bob made spaghetti at the day care&#8230;. Now, when did Mr. Bob say that there was poop in the spaghetti? A:\u00a0 After we, um, ate it. Q:\u00a0 All right. Did \u2013 did you ever have to eat poop at the day care? A:\u00a0 No. Q:\u00a0 Okay. 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