{"id":3035,"date":"2018-01-12T18:21:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2018-01-12T18:27:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:27:57","slug":"they-constantly-asked-him-the-same-thing-over-and-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=3035","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They constantly asked him the same thing over and over again&#8230;.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3036\" style=\"width: 80px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3036\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/180112Mills80.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Jan. 12, 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Bob Kelly\u2019s] defense contended that the children&#8217;s allegations were just the responses of suggestible youngsters eager to please the interrogators who were urging them to disclose abuse. [Interviewed in \u201cInnocence Lost: The Verdict\u201d,] one mother whose child did not disclose abuse is seen heaping scorn on the police and social services interrogation of her child:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; \u2018They constantly asked him the same thing over and over again, and they would rephrase it&#8230;. They talked to him, it had to be an hour and a half or so before we interrupted and they wanted to continue talking to him. I would guess the same questions were asked five or six times.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis mother&#8217;s recollection is one of the few clues to the police methods in this case. Police and prosecutors declined to cooperate with \u2018Frontline.\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=191\">All of the investigative notes and tapes were destroyed<\/a>, and the only source material available at trial was after-the-fact summaries&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/1993-07-20\/features\/9307200260_1_rascals-accusations-frontline\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice Abuse? \u2018Frontline&#8217; Documentary Takes Hard Look At A Small-town Scandal<\/a>&#8221; by Bart Mills in the Chicago Tribune (July 20, 1993)<\/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>Jan. 12, 2018 \u201c[Bob Kelly\u2019s] defense contended that the children&#8217;s allegations were just the responses of suggestible youngsters eager to please the interrogators who were urging them to disclose abuse. [Interviewed in \u201cInnocence Lost: The Verdict\u201d,] one mother whose child did not disclose abuse is seen heaping scorn on the police and social services interrogation [&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-3035","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\/3035","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=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}