{"id":923,"date":"2013-04-24T02:03:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T02:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=923"},"modified":"2016-07-04T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:22:58","slug":"the-night-koppel-redefined-objective-and-reliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"The night Koppel redefined &#8216;objective and reliable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">April 24, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cTed Koppel said the idea for (a \u201cNightline\u201d episode criticizing juries\u2019 growing skepticism toward child-witnesses) had been brought to him by Civia Tamarkin, who although she \u2018served on the advisory board of an organization called Believe the Children insists that she remains neutral on the subject&#8230;. We have found her to be a useful, objective and reliable source.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cTamarkin had indeed devoted a lot of attention to child sexual-abuse cases, along with an abiding conviction that most defendants are guilty&#8230;. She believes the McMartin prosecution should have resulted in convictions (and) has praised the prosecution in the Little Rascals case&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cI interviewed prosecutors and defense lawyers in Little Rascals and read trial transcripts. It was clear the child witnesses had been persistently manipulated&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cKoppel lost his balance on child witnesses\u201d\u00a0by Washington Post columnist Nat Hentoff (Dec. 3, 1996)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Believe the Children, organized by McMartin parents, later expanded to become a clearinghouse for ritual abuse allegations. It apparently disbanded after holding a final conference in Arlington Heights, Illinois, in 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 24, 2013 \u201cTed Koppel said the idea for (a \u201cNightline\u201d episode criticizing juries\u2019 growing skepticism toward child-witnesses) had been brought to him by Civia Tamarkin, who although she \u2018served on the advisory board of an organization called Believe the Children insists that she remains neutral on the subject&#8230;. We have found her to be [&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-923","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\/923","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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}