{"id":473,"date":"2012-04-18T14:46:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T14:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=473"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:40:46","slug":"parents-saw-nothing-amiss-until-rumors-took-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Parents saw nothing amiss until rumors took hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-474\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120418Bruck.jpg\" alt=\"120418Bruck\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>April 18, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cOne of the more surprising aspects of this (Little Rascals) case&#8230;. was that none of the parents&#8230; had observed anything that caused them to suspect their children were being abused or tortured during the period of the alleged abuses; there were no reports of unusual incidents from their children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cNor did the parents detect anything unusual when, without notice, they dropped in early to pick up their children from the day care (e.g., to take them to a doctor\u2019s appointment).<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIt was only after allegations began to grow that parents also began to remember events or behaviors consistent with their child being abused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cJeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children\u2019s<br \/>\nTestimony\u201d by Stephen J. Ceci and Maggie Bruck (1995)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style231\">Prosecutor Nancy Lamb gave the Charlotte Observer her response to \u201cJeopardy in the Courtroom\u201d: \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that these two people who have a good reputation \u2013 or at least Ceci did \u2013 have written this. It\u2019s garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 18, 2012 \u201cOne of the more surprising aspects of this (Little Rascals) case&#8230;. was that none of the parents&#8230; had observed anything that caused them to suspect their children were being abused or tortured during the period of the alleged abuses; there were no reports of unusual incidents from their children. \u201cNor did the [&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-473","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\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}