{"id":2109,"date":"2016-04-16T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2016-07-03T19:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T19:31:32","slug":"embarrassed-prosecutors-where-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2109","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassed prosecutors, where are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2110\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2110\" style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2110 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160416Smith.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Smith\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160416Smith.jpg 184w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160416Smith-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">April 16, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo many in the criminal justice system, it is now a source of embarrassment that there was ever a time when police and prosecutors were convinced that bands of Satanists had infiltrated the nation\u2019s day care centers in order to abuse young children. Yet in the (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2033\">Fran and Dan Keller case<\/a>),\u00a0which I investigated for the Austin Chronicle back in 2009, I was startled to hear both a veteran cop and a prosecutor say they still believed in even the most absurd of the children\u2019s allegations&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013\u00a0From \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/04\/08\/convicted-of-a-crime-that-never-happened-why-wont-texas-exonerate-fran-and-dan-keller\/?comments=1#comments\" target=\"_blank\">Convicted of a Crime That Never Happened: Why Won\u2019t Texas Exonerate Fran and Dan Keller?<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Jordan Smith at the Intercept (April 8)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 16, 2016 \u201cTo many in the criminal justice system, it is now a source of embarrassment that there was ever a time when police and prosecutors were convinced that bands of Satanists had infiltrated the nation\u2019s day care centers in order to abuse young children. Yet in the (Fran and Dan Keller case),\u00a0which I [&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-2109","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\/2109","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=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}