{"id":897,"date":"2013-03-29T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=897"},"modified":"2016-07-04T13:48:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T13:48:34","slug":"for-little-rascals-da-mum-was-always-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"For Little Rascals DA, mum was always the word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">March 29, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cELIZABETH CITY \u2013 Attorneys for the seven defendants in the Edenton child abuse case want to know what techniques were used to elicit accusations from the children&#8230;. Prosecutors don\u2019t want to tell them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c(District Attorney H.P.) Williams would not address a reporter\u2019s questions about how the Edenton investigation was conducted&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cMr. Williams declined to say how the Edenton investigation grew from complaints by three families to its current size. He declined to say how they communicated with parents or whether a letter was sent out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cHe would not discuss who had interviewed the children or what interview techniques had been used&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cProsecutors won\u2019t discuss techniques\u201d in the\u00a0Raleigh News &amp; Observer (Feb. 25, 1990)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Two decades later Williams, though no longer district attorney, was still \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=197\">not in a position to talk about it<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Coincidentally \u2013 or not \u2013 the Little Rascals story shared Page 2C with one noting that \u201cSocial workers are trying to determine why reported cases of child abuse and neglect in North Carolina jumped 27 percent in 1989, while cases nationally are expected to rise only 3 percent or 4 percent&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">A consultant with the state Division of Social Services observed that \u201cAny time you get a radical increase in the number of complaints, you\u2019re probably getting a number of complaints of questionable validity&#8230;..Folks who make those reports need to use some common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 29, 2013 \u201cELIZABETH CITY \u2013 Attorneys for the seven defendants in the Edenton child abuse case want to know what techniques were used to elicit accusations from the children&#8230;. Prosecutors don\u2019t want to tell them&#8230;. \u201c(District Attorney H.P.) Williams would not address a reporter\u2019s questions about how the Edenton investigation was conducted&#8230;. \u201cMr. Williams [&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-897","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\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}