{"id":775,"date":"2013-01-07T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T16:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=775"},"modified":"2016-07-04T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:52:12","slug":"betsy-kelly-still-innocent-but-no-longer-believing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"Betsy Kelly: Still innocent, but no longer believing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120821Kelly.jpg\" alt=\"120821Kelly\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Jan. 7, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c\u201cWhen I began this journey almost five years ago, I was a very strong, very optimistic, very believing and very innocent person. As I stand here today, I have become very tired, very disillusioned, very unbelieving but very much the innocent woman I was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cWhen I lost my home, my job and business, my worldly possessions \u2013 then my husband and friend \u2013 I realized that what I had believed in and held onto as truth and justice no longer existed. But with the love and concern and total support of my family, my attorneys and very dear friends, I have come to realize that although prison is some place I do not want to return to, there are many worse prisons to endure out in the free world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI can now, for the first time in five years, look my precious daughter in the eyes and tell her that this will all be over soon and that (the) life that we have dreamed about but never dared to believe in is going to come true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cNo one in this courtroom can truly understand why I chose this pathway at this time \u2013 but I am at peace with the only true person that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From Betsy Kelly\u2019s statement to the court (Jan. 21, 1994), as she\u00a0entered a no contest plea to 30 counts of child molestation<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 7, 2013 \u201c\u201cWhen I began this journey almost five years ago, I was a very strong, very optimistic, very believing and very innocent person. As I stand here today, I have become very tired, very disillusioned, very unbelieving but very much the innocent woman I was. \u201cWhen I lost my home, my job and [&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-775","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\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}