{"id":424,"date":"2012-03-12T22:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T22:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=424"},"modified":"2015-12-29T22:39:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T22:39:59","slug":"was-it-really-dawn-wilson-who-had-no-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Was it really Dawn Wilson who &#8216;had no character&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120312Wilson.jpg\" alt=\"120312Wilson\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>March 12, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">After reading thousands of pages of Little Rascals coverage, shouldn\u2019t I have become inured to the prosecution\u2019s gratuitous brutality?<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Not yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">On August 11, 1993, Dawn Wilson, serving a life sentence for child sexual abuse, went back to court to seek release under house arrest. In six days she would give birth to her second child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Nancy Lamb and Bill Hart could\u2019ve responded with any number of temperate legal arguments against her release. Instead&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cShe made a quite irresponsible decision in 1992 to become pregnant early in her trial,\u201d Lamb said. \u201cShe was thinking only of herself&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cDawn Wilson&#8230; simply has no character&#8230;,\u201d added Hart. \u201cIs she the kind of mother figure who ought to be bonding with a second out-of-wedlock child?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Judge Marsh McLelland granted Wilson\u2019s request, but delays in paperwork and payment of a $250,000 bond kept mother and son in women\u2019s prison another month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">In 1995 the N.C. Court of Appeals overturned her conviction.\u00a0And then of course the prosecutors rushed to apologize to Dawn Wilson for their disgraceful vilification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 12, 2012 After reading thousands of pages of Little Rascals coverage, shouldn\u2019t I have become inured to the prosecution\u2019s gratuitous brutality? Not yet. On August 11, 1993, Dawn Wilson, serving a life sentence for child sexual abuse, went back to court to seek release under house arrest. In six days she would give birth [&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-424","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\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}