June 19, 2013<\/p>\n
The Little Rascals parents insisted their children had \u201cdisclosed\u201d mostly on their own, rather than a result of persistent interrogation. But this live interview, in the giddy moments after Bob Kelly\u2019s convictions (April 22, 1992), suggests a different pattern:<\/p>\n
CNN<\/strong>: How did you find out this happened? You were apparently the first parents to realize something was terribly wrong.<\/p>\n Mark Stever<\/strong>: Kyle, our son, told us in his own way, just different things, like \u2018Mr. Bob doesn\u2019t do it anymore. He does it to the other children.\u2019<\/p>\n Audrey Stever<\/strong>: We knew he had a secret, and we knew it happened at nap time, but he couldn\u2019t tell us what it was, and to escape talking about it he would say, \u2018Oh, he doesn\u2019t do it anymore, Mommy.\u2019<\/p>\n CNN<\/strong>: And how did you finally bring it out of him exactly what he said had been happening?<\/p>\n Audrey Stever<\/strong>: Well, I approached a friend (Brenda Toppin) who was the investigating officer in the case… and things kind of went from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 19, 2013 The Little Rascals parents insisted their children had \u201cdisclosed\u201d mostly on their own, rather than a result of persistent interrogation. But this live interview, in the giddy moments after Bob Kelly\u2019s convictions (April 22, 1992), suggests a different pattern: CNN: How did you find out this happened? You were apparently the first […]<\/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-988","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\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}