{"id":944,"date":"2013-05-13T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=944"},"modified":"2016-07-03T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T14:35:46","slug":"investigator-still-believes-kelly-was-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Investigator still believes Kelly was guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/130513McCall.jpg\" alt=\"130513McCall\" width=\"180\" height=\"282\" \/>May 13, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cOn January 20, (1989, Audrey) Stever met with (social workers) David McCall and Grenda Costin, who told Ms. Stever that there was going to be an investigation into the day care. They also suggested to Ms. Stever that they put Kyle in therapy (and) that \u2018they thought something was going on\u2019 at the day care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cOn January 21, (Brenda) Toppin, Ms. Costin and Mr. McCall came to interview Kyle at his home. Ms. Stever prepared Kyle by telling him that he needed to be a \u2018police helper\u2019 to help figure out why the children at the day care were sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oocities.org\/jgharris7\/bobkelly-.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>brief for Bob Kelly<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0before N.C. Court of Appeals (1994)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAs an initial social services investigator in the Robert Kelly case, I believe justice was served with this verdict&#8230;. A Salem-style witch-hunt did not occur, and a perpetrator of crimes against children was justly convicted. A significant battle in the war against child sexual abuse was fought and won in Edenton&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013From \u201cCrimes Against Children: A Guide to Child Protection\u00a0for Parents and Professionals featuring the Little Rascals Day\u00a0Care Sex Scandal\u201d by David E. McCall (1995)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">I asked McCall if he still believes justice was served in Little Rascals. \u201cI stand on my original substantiation of abuse by Robert Kelly,\u201d he said. \u201cI was not involved in the investigation of the others charged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">He said he went into the case with \u201csignificant training\u201d in investigating abuse, adding that \u201cIf you ever want a child interviewed to find the truth, I really feel like I\u2019m pretty good at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">McCall later left social work and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidemccall.com\/default.asp?content=default&amp;menu_id=232877\" target=\"_blank\">now sells real estate<\/a>\u00a0in Edenton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 13, 2013 \u201cOn January 20, (1989, Audrey) Stever met with (social workers) David McCall and Grenda Costin, who told Ms. Stever that there was going to be an investigation into the day care. They also suggested to Ms. Stever that they put Kyle in therapy (and) that \u2018they thought something was going on\u2019 at [&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-944","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\/944","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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}