{"id":487,"date":"2012-04-30T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=487"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:38:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:38:18","slug":"prosecutors-turned-on-by-nonexistent-porn-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors turned on by nonexistent porn tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">April 30, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cProsecutors are reviewing pornographic videotapes seized in Montana&#8230;. A man identified as Willard Scott Privott appears wearing a pirate costume in a boat full of children, according to affidavits&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cSeveral children have testified (during Bob Kelly\u2019s trial) that they were taken on boat trips. One 6-year-old boy testified that the boat was driven by a pirate&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cBill Hart, an assistant attorney general prosecuting the case, said State Bureau of Investigation agents and Edenton Police Officer Brenda Toppin are reviewing the confiscated material&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=1454&amp;dat=19911130&amp;id=BXtOAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=mxQEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=1637,6138645\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press dispatch, Nov. 30, 1991<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Needless to say, the Montana tape seizure was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=1454&amp;dat=19911221&amp;id=lAEzAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=mBQEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=1397,1776630\" target=\"_blank\">quickly revealed as a fool\u2019s errand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">But how excited the prosecutors must have been by the prospect of finally finding actual evidence to support their multiplicity of charges!<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">I e-mailed the Montana stories to Scott Privott, who said that until now he had only heard word-of-mouth accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">He remembered Dorene Anna Stearns and David Lee Etheridge as no more than acquaintances in Edenton. \u201cAs far as her tales of seeing me in a movie, I wonder how even the state could believe that&#8230;. If a movie did exist and she saw it in \u201987, why didn&#8217;t she report it to authorities back then?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 30, 2012 \u201cProsecutors are reviewing pornographic videotapes seized in Montana&#8230;. A man identified as Willard Scott Privott appears wearing a pirate costume in a boat full of children, according to affidavits&#8230;. \u201cSeveral children have testified (during Bob Kelly\u2019s trial) that they were taken on boat trips. One 6-year-old boy testified that the boat was [&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-487","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\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}