{"id":497,"date":"2012-05-11T16:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T16:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=497"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:37:08","slug":"surviving-tape-undercuts-officers-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Surviving tape undercuts officer&#8217;s testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120217Shopper.jpg\" alt=\"120217Shopper\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>May 11, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cOne of the attorneys preparing the appeal brief for Mr. Kelly found a tape of an interview with a child that had been taped over with another interview, but retained the last five minutes. The attorney (described Brenda Toppin&#8217;s approach as) \u2018not only suggestive, but coercive to the point of brutality. The child&#8217;s crying and pleas to stop are met only by Ms. Toppin\u2019s promise to stop when the child said what she wanted to hear\u2019&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c(This discovery) is especially shocking because Officer Toppin denied under oath that she was coercive, suggestive or leading in her interviews.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150510Shopper.pdf\">What I learned from the Edenton Little Rascals sex abuse trial<\/a>\u201d by<br \/>\nMoisy Shopper, M.D. (in the peer-reviewed journal Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2009)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 11, 2012 \u201cOne of the attorneys preparing the appeal brief for Mr. Kelly found a tape of an interview with a child that had been taped over with another interview, but retained the last five minutes. The attorney (described Brenda Toppin&#8217;s approach as) \u2018not only suggestive, but coercive to the point of brutality. 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-497","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\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}