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\u201cWarren Twiddy, 68, father of defendant Betsy Kelly, said he\u2019s been \u2018shunned, blocked out\u2019 by some residents and nearly run out of his church.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 From \u201cTrial rips fabric of community\u201d by Mark Mayfield\u00a0in USA Today (March 20, 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cTwiddy sold his insurance business and exhausted his retirement savings to pay his daughter\u2019s legal fees. Old friends, he says, won\u2019t even say hello on the street. Clients canceled policies after his daughter was indicted.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 From\u00a0 \u201cTown\u2019s pain is revived by TV film\u201d by Andrea Stone\u00a0in USA Today (July 22, 1993)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cTwiddy admits… some bitterness toward his neighbors, who ignored him at church and at the country club.<\/p>\n \u201c \u2018Before, the bulletin board was full with places we were supposed to be up \u2019til Christmas,\u2019 he said. \u2018After this, nothing, buddy.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 From \u201cTalk of new trial makes Edenton shudder\u201d by Carol D. Leonnig\u00a0in the Charlotte Observer (Sept. 10, 1995)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOur need to matter and our need to belong are as fundamental as our need to eat and breathe. Therefore ostracism \u2013 rejection, silence, exclusion \u2013 is one of the most powerful punishments that one person can inflict on another.<\/p>\n \u201cBrain scans have shown that this rejection is actually experienced as physical pain, and that this pain is experienced whether those that reject us are close friends or family or total strangers, and whether the act is overt exclusion or merely looking away….\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 From a delanceyplace.com summary of \u201cThe Pain of Exclusion\u201d\u00a0by Kipling D. Williams in Scientific American (January\/February 2011)<\/em><\/p>\n The misery caused by wrongful prosecution of the Little Rascals case extended far beyond courtrooms and jail cells. Defendants\u2019 family members such as Betsy Kelly\u2019s father endured many years in a hell of ostracism.<\/p>\n