{"id":162,"date":"2011-11-09T11:50:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T11:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=162"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:09:33","slug":"parents-stake-claim-on-years-of-trauma-and-persecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Parents stake claim on &#8216;years of trauma and persecution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style76\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"style171\">Nov. 9, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cFear recaptured the 9-year-old, much as it had six years ago when last he left Bob Kelly&#8217;s day care. Lingering fears gripped many of Kelly&#8217;s victims when the appellate court overturned his 99 guilty verdicts&#8230;. A week later, the little boy is still too frightened to ride his bike around the block&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cWe forget the victims \u2013 unless we live with them. Our wounds from media distortions heal. Our memories of Kelly\u2019s manipulation of \u2018the system\u2019 fade. But the genuine fears of our sons and daughters persist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cWhat would you do if you knew your little ones had been sexually abused? Would you seek justice? Would&#8230; you be able to endure the years of trauma and persecution? We implore our fellow North Carolinians to ponder those questions&#8230;. Join us in requesting that the North Carolina Supreme Court uphold these verdicts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cIf the court denies the opinions of two separate juries that found both (Kelly and Dawn Wilson) guilty, the innocent victims will be under attack again. Do helpless child victims forget the brutality of rape, sodomy and crimes against nature? A more significant question is: Do we in North Carolina want to pry those agonizing details from them once more?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cTrue, many are old enough to realize that Bob Kelly can&#8217;t work his threatened evil to kill their families. But others still draw pictures of their visions of safety: pictures of heaven and guardian angels because they say, \u2018I know Mr. Bob won\u2019t be in Heaven.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cWe must take a stand against re-victimization of the innocent. Don&#8217;t interrupt the healing that is emerging in these courageous young ones. Refuse to allow the media to create a \u2018circus\u2019 in our noble state. Child sexual abuse can no longer be allowed or excused in North Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style168\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From a letter to the editor of the (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot, signed by 17 parents\u00a0<\/em><em>of children involved in the Little Rascals case (May 14, 1995)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">Buried in the Edenton parents\u2019 heartfelt plea to the N.C. Supreme Court (which would soon agree with the Court of Appeals\u2019 overturning the convictions of Kelly and Wilson) is this profoundly revealing question: \u201cDo we in North Carolina want to pry those agonizing details from them once more?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">If only those details had not been\u00a0<em>pried<\/em>\u00a0from the children in the first place&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 9, 2011 \u201cFear recaptured the 9-year-old, much as it had six years ago when last he left Bob Kelly&#8217;s day care. Lingering fears gripped many of Kelly&#8217;s victims when the appellate court overturned his 99 guilty verdicts&#8230;. A week later, the little boy is still too frightened to ride his bike around the block&#8230;. 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