{"id":203,"date":"2011-12-12T23:06:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=203"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:04:13","slug":"how-one-da-refused-to-yield-to-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"How one DA refused to yield to madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style76\" style=\"text-align: right;\">Dec. 12, 2011<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/111212Rubenstein.jpg\" alt=\"111212Rubenstein\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>\u201c(In 1989) when the Breezy Point Day School in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, was subjected to an elaborate skein of charges of satanic and ritualistic sex abuse (District Attorney Alan) Rubenstein mounted an immediate, aggressive investigation of the evidence supporting each allegation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cHe took up the rug at the school where rabbits were alleged to have been ritually sacrificed and sent it to (an independent toxicology) lab for analysis; no rabbit blood was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cHe sifted the school sandbox for evidence of allegedly sacrificed and mutilated animals; no traces were found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cHe had the children alleged to have been raped and beaten interviewed apart from their frenzied parents and without the assistance of the ubiquitous (Roland) Summit-trained \u2018sex therapists;\u2019 none were found to have been abused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">\u201cOne of the child \u2018victims,\u2019 whose videotaped \u2018disclosure\u2019 was key to the original allegations, actually objected to being transferred to another school, claiming she \u2018liked Breezy Point.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cRubenstein firmly resisted hysterical parents and the public clamor for arrests. As a result of his courage and integrity, and his thorough, timely and scientific investigations, all charges of abuse at Breezy Point quickly evaporated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cSexual Liberation: The Scandal of Christendom\u201d by Raymond J. Lawrence (2007)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">Striking, isn\u2019t it, to see the prosecutor in a day-care abuse case say \u201cWait just a minute, let\u2019s check this out\u201d rather than falling all over himself to round up a coffle of suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style170\">Later this week I\u2019ll be checking in with Doug Wiik, owner of Breezy Point and a key member of the Committee for Support of the Edenton Seven, and with former District Attorney Rubenstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 12, 2011 \u201c(In 1989) when the Breezy Point Day School in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, was subjected to an elaborate skein of charges of satanic and ritualistic sex abuse (District Attorney Alan) Rubenstein mounted an immediate, aggressive investigation of the evidence supporting each allegation. \u201cHe took up the rug at the school where rabbits were alleged [&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-203","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\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2546,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/2546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}