{"id":160,"date":"2011-11-07T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=160"},"modified":"2015-12-23T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T11:49:13","slug":"brent-adams-associates-begins-to-clean-up-its-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Brent Adams &#038; Associates begins to clean up its act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style76\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"style171\">Nov. 7, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">Last week I mentioned a misleading characterization on the website of the Raleigh personal-injury law firm\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brentadams.com\/blog\/day-care-abuse-in-north-carolina.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Adams &amp; Associates<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cA highly publicized case occurred in coastal North Carolina almost 30 years ago. Making national headlines, the Little Rascals Day Care Center was run by a husband-and-wife team, Bob and Betsy Kelly&#8230;. The Little Rascals abuse case involved 90 children who all required extensive therapy sessions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">After I asked that the passage be removed, instead this sentence (along with a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Rascals_day_care_sexual_abuse_trial\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia link<\/a>) was added:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cThe convictions were later overturned by the NC Court of Appeals and all charges were dropped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">Better. A lot better. But the remaining reference to \u201c90 children who all required extensive therapy sessions\u201d is still exactly 90 children away from being accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 7, 2011 Last week I mentioned a misleading characterization on the website of the Raleigh personal-injury law firm\u00a0Brent Adams &amp; Associates: \u201cA highly publicized case occurred in coastal North Carolina almost 30 years ago. Making national headlines, the Little Rascals Day Care Center was run by a husband-and-wife team, Bob and Betsy Kelly&#8230;. The [&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-160","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\/160","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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}