--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: D3B00000Date: 03/06/96 From: #1 CLINTONITE Time: 09:00pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: <<< RE-ELECT CLINTON >>> AMERICANS UNITE! Re-Elect President Bill Clinton. November 5, 1996 GO, CLINTON, GO! --- Simplex BBS (v1.07.00Beta [DOS]) * Origin: NighthawkBBS, Burlington NC 910-228-7002 HST Dual (1:3644/6) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: D3C00000Date: 03/05/96 From: NANCY EDDY Time: 02:18pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Our Story-Part 1 Part 1 of 5 By Nancy Eddy This is the story of the abuses that my family and I have suffered at the hands of various govenmental agencies over the last three years. I will try to be brief, but it's not a simple story. Let me begin by saying that our daughter, Stacy, who is now 17 years old, is retarded and was, until two years ago, in Special Ed in the local schools. About a month before all Hell broke loose, her father was talking to her teacher on the telephone about her crush on another student who didn't like her, and she told him that they had discussed bad touches as a class, and that our daughter had told her that no one had ever done anything like that to her. Not long after, my husband called the school to complain that she wasn't being closely enough supervised by the school, and possibly made a few enemies. In early January of 93, I was at work and received a telephone call from the local Child Protective Services agency. The woman insisted that I leave work and get my family and be in her office within the hour. Ter- rified by the idea of CPS, I left, putting my job in jeopardy, and went to collect my husband, daughter, and son. At the office, the woman still refused to tell us why we were there, and took our daughter into her office to talk. She kept her there for two hours, at one point cal- ling me in to verify a point, telling me that our daughter had claimed that Daddy had hurt her in a private spot. I tried to tell her that the child was easily confused, that there was a reason for what she was say- ing, but the woman ushered me out, refusing to listen. She took our son in and spoke to him for a grand total of maybe ten minutes, before coming back out to get me. She told me that there had been a report that Stacy had told someone that Daddy had touched her, and she refused to listen to me, sending me back out so she could talk to my husband. He was as shocked as I was, and the allegation almost destroyed him. The woman told us that he had to leave the house that night and not see either of the children again until they decided he could. She gave us telephone numbers for counselors, saying that they would pay for mine and our daughter's-that he would have to pay for his. She told us that the police investigator would be in touch within days- it's been three years, and none of us have talked to any inves- tigator except for CPS's. She let us leave together, and I saw no sign of anyone following to insure that he left the house as agreed. But he did go to stay in a spare room where he was working, and we began to try and maintain two separate households, which quickly de- pleted our until then growing savings. Our daughter told us that a teacher's aide (not even a real teacher, and certainly not a trained investigator) had asked her questions about Daddy that day, and from that we discovered who had most likely called CPS-but not the Police, strangely enough. Continued on in next message... ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 * LAKOTA v1.3 --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (UNREG) * Origin: The Town Crier * Athens, Texas (1:2629/124.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: D3C00001Date: 03/05/96 From: NANCY EDDY Time: 02:19pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Our Story Part 2 Part 2 of 5 We set up meetings with the CPS paid counselors (CPS had to have been paying them, I never gave the one Stacy and I saw a penny, and all of her cases were referred from CPS), and it was a month before CPS took my daughter to a doctor to be checked. The results were "inconclusive", according to the CPS agent, who had begun going to my daughter's school to try and talk to her. I told my child to tell her that I had to be there, but I'm not sure how well she remembered my words, since she's so easily led by an adult who talks nice to her. She had to go into the hospital for a minor operation, and wanted her Daddy there, but CPS refused to let them see each other, but finally relented enough to let him see our son-after I pushed for that, since our son was deva- stated and insecure by the loss of his Dad. The boy began to sleep on the sofa at night, not wanting to stay in his room, saying he wanted to make sure everything was alright. I think he wanted to make sure that I didn't leave as well. After talking to a friend who was a retired lawyer, on his advice, we decided to stop seeing CPS' counselors, who weren't interested in listening to our stories-yet the one our daughter saw told me that she didn't think the girl would make a good witness- that her time sense was almost nil-and we found a private counselor. Then began the fight with CPS to approve him. It took a visit to our state Rep. to get it done, but we finally were out of their system. The counselor that our daughter spoke to said that she never once men- tioned anything about Daddy doing anything to her, that all she talked about was the boy that she had that crush on. We decided that we had gone long enough apart, and decided to meet away from the house. When our daughter saw her father's truck, her eyes lit up in delight, and I thought she was going to strangle him she hugged him so hard. She and her brother were upset every time we planned for Daddy to move back in and he decided not to for one reason or other. Finally, the counselor convinced CPS to let my husband return home. Still no police investigator had called, and this was five months into this mess. Since school was now out, and we had no baby sitter I trusted, I quit work for the summer-which further pulled down our fi- nances. When I had mentioned that I was having to cut my hours at work, the CPS agent suggested that I apply for food stamps and government aid-I refused, saying that I didn't want to live off charity, since it wasn't necessary if they would just let my husband come home. During that summer, I stopped playing along and began to audio tape the tele- phone calls between myself and the CPS agent, catching her in several discrepancies-even set up a video camera on one of her visits-but she came early and I wasn't able to get it totally ready. She only stayed for a few minutes, attempting to scare me with mention of the police, surprised that we still hadn't heard from them. I told her that I had been taping a video letter to my mom when she'd called, and was going to finish it when she left. The next month, August of that year, she Continued next message.... ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 * LAKOTA v1.3 --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (UNREG) * Origin: The Town Crier * Athens, Texas (1:2629/124.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: D3C00002Date: 03/05/96 From: NANCY EDDY Time: 02:21pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Our Story Part 3 Part 3 of 5 insisted that I meet her at her office. I said no, that I couldn't, and she said she didn't want to be video taped-and I asked about their use of video taping in their offices. She denied it, although my husband a nd I had talked to others who had been through this who told us they did tape-Audio and Video, and had been known to use it in trials. I assured her I would not video tape her but she never came to see us. She went to see my daughter instead at the beginning of the year at school, and when the girl said she couldn't talk without her Mommy being there, the agent left. She called me, telling me three different stories about what might happen if I didn't start cooperating again, and I said I wouldn't, that we were a family, would remain a family. She said that she would have to close the case due to non-cooperation, and I grabbed at that. She backed away from her words, realizing she had given me an out. A few weeks later, we found a notice in the local paper that my husband had been indicted by the Grand Jury. There had been no contact from the police, no arrest, nothing. He contacted a private investigator friend who got him in touch with a lawyer, and found out if there was a warrant issued, how much bail would be, etc. The friend arranged bail to be paid out of the county, as we had begun to hear horror stories about the corruption in our own county's "justice" system. I had gone back to work, and his work had fallen off, so scraping up the money to pay the bond and lawyer wasn't easy, and put us ever deeper into a hole. Then, a month after the indictment, CPS sent us a letter, informing us that they were closing their case. They were finally out of our lives, but we now faced the legal angle. His lawyer began to announce ready at pretrial, but the county kept putting the case at the bottom of the docket, where it constantly got knocked off. A really important case, here, I suppose. High-priority. This began in January of 1992, and it's now February 1996. The lawyer had told us that the county DA's office had boasted to the media once that he never dropped a case once charges were filed-and he always won. He's a very high-profile DA, with an amazing conviction record-one won- ders how long he will be content to be stuck in a backwater little county before moving on to bigger and better things. The DA's office offered a deal in Nov. 94: Deferred adjudication, probation for five years. Period. A way to save their face since their case isn't as strong as they hoped. We're waited for 4 months to see if the judge agreed to the deal. If he didn't, my husband was willing to take his chances in court-on a charge that the court claims happened over five years ago. Trouble is, the DA doesn't realize that my daughter can't remember how long ago we moved to the area, couldn't tell you that year if her life depended on it-and she was old enough that she should be able to recall it. The big drawback to a trial is Continued next message... ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 * LAKOTA v1.3 --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (UNREG) * Origin: The Town Crier * Athens, Texas (1:2629/124.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: D3C00003Date: 03/05/96 From: NANCY EDDY Time: 02:22pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Our Story Part 4 Part 4 of 5 that my husband's lawyer may be forced to place her on the stand and tear her apart in order to make a jury understand how easily led and confused the girl is. Well, the plea bargain wasn't. The Asst. DA who offered it, told us that Frank wouldn't have to plead guilty. The county changed Asst. DAs again- they seem to rotate cases, and we got the original Asst. DA. She refused the plea bargain unless Frank pled (sp) guilty. Frank didn't like the idea, but before he could refuse it, the judge said HE didn't like the plea bargain (no doubt at the behest of the DA). This happened in Feb of 95. The DA supposedly told our lawyer that she had a good case and would be taking it to trial soon. The case came up on the trial docket again (it had been removed from there in October when the idea of the plea bargain came up and put on the plea docket) the next month. It was SIXth on the docket! This case has never been higher than sixth-and still has not gone to trial. The lawyer said that since it was taken off the trial docket, something called the 18 month clock stopped-and now must start again. So the case must work it's way back up through the system. Sounds like a really IMPORTANT case, doesn't it? Still seems like if they had anything concrete they would have taken it to the trial before now. As it is, it's been 29 months since he was indicted, and the lawyer says that the DA can keep this up for TEN YEARS! Frank thinks they may be waiting for our daughter to turn 18 in another 5 months and then try to convince her that she really WAS abused. The lawyer balks at filing a request for dismissal, always has some excuse about it. He first said he had to wait two years from the time of the indictment, now, he just won't discuss it. I don't think it could hurt anything for him to at least try. Contrary to what CPS planned, all of this served to draw us closer as a family-and having watched my daugher with her father, I know that she's not afraid of him, has never been afraid of him. If someone hurts her, she tells me about it, always has. She never told me a thing about Daddy hurting her. When the case came onto the trial docket in November 1995, it was ELEVENTH on the docket, and of course did not go. The lawyer insists that time is on our side, that all we can do is wait out the District Attorney's office, but our daughter will be 18 in August of this year, and we worry that they hope to get to her without going through us at that time and feed her more of their lies. We've moved to another county over 100 miles away to try and put this behind us, but Frank still can't find work because he has to report to the Bail Bond Co. at least every other week, and once he tells a prospective employer the reason, he's passed over for a job. We can't go on like this much longer, and would like the Denton Co. DA to either try the case or drop it. The bond company is as confused as we are, and have not been notified of Continued next message... ___ Blue Wave/QWK--- * LAKOTA v1.3 --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (UNREG) * Origin: The Town Crier * Athens, Texas (1:2629/124.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: D3C00004Date: 03/05/96 From: NANCY EDDY Time: 02:24pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Our Story Part 5 Part 5 of 5 anything regarding this case in several months. They have agreed as of this month that Frank only has to report in person once a month, but that creates a problem for him, since his livelihood is being a truck driver, and requires that he go out of state for training to get a new job. The case was back on the docket again in Feb 96, but the lawyer says he doesn't think it will go this time, either. There is a new develop- ment. The original charge against Frank was Sexual assault of a child. It's now Sexual assault of another person. The lawyer isn't even sure when that happened or why. And he still won't file for a dismissal, because he says it might only make the DA decide to go to trial. Frank is to the point he's not sure he cares. At least, if it went to trial, it would be over one way or the other. There it is. Is all of this a case of abuse by government agen- cies-or not? The very agency that is supposed to protect children virtually ignored our son during the entire matter, giving him a pro- bably life-long distrust of government agencies of any kind. We lost our financial stability, and now realize that we must be very careful who we leave our daughter with-make sure that it's not someone with an axe to grind that will use our daughter's trust against us. I pulled her out of public school and am teaching her at home in an attempt to keep the government from getting their hands on her. She still insists that nothing happened, but can't tell us why she said what she did, except to mention on more than one occassion that she was told to say it by several different people, which I think I can believe, since she's so easily led. During what little research we've been able to do, we've come to think that had our daughter been normal, she would have been removed from the home and placed in foster care. But since she's not she would have been difficult to place or adopt out, as that is what we've discovered happens many times in these types of cases. Sorry for the episodic nature of this, but so much has happened over the last three years-this nightmare began on Jan. 6, 1993-and it's now March 5, 1996. In all this time, there has been no contact by any police department, nor any direct contact by the Denton Co. District Attorney's office. There was NO investigation beyond whatever was in CPS's report, and no questioning of any of the people personally involved, especially my husband. If you need any further information, my telephone number is (903) 675-9387. Nancy and Frank Eddy Rt. 3 Box 3415 Athens, TX 75751 ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 * LAKOTA v1.3 --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (UNREG) * Origin: The Town Crier * Athens, Texas (1:2629/124.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: D3C00005Date: 03/05/96 From: RICK THOMA Time: 07:21pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Jenny Wilcox: 02/13/96 Dayton Daily News Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1996 Front Page, top story Sex abuse case to be revisited By Janice Haidet Morse Could a Huber Heights couple serving life in prison for perverted sex acts with children be innocent? That is the question that will be debated at a hearing beginning today. Lawyers representing Jennifer Wilcox and Robert Aldridge will argue that their clients' 1985 convictions be voided because some alleged victims now say police and prosecutors forced them to lie on the witness stand. An expert witness, scheduled to testify for the defense, calls the case "Ohio's example of sex hysteria," and compares it to other infamous cases in which child sex-abuse allegations were later found to be fabricated. Eric Vogann, who was a teen-ager living in the neighborhood in 1984 when the allegations were made, is expected to testify that the furor surrounding the case was so intense that a vigilante mob tried to castrate him when he was suspected of abusing the children, a court document says. Jim Knight, a spokesman for the Montgomery County prosecutor's office, wouldn't talk about the Wilcox-Aldridge case except to say, "These people were convicted in a court of law... and we will be defending the upholding of that conviction." Huber Heights police also declined comment. The hearing, expected to last about four days in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, stems from a motion filed in 1994, which includes sworn statements recanting testimony of three of the six victims who testifed against Wilcox and Aldridge. John, Jason, and Justin Chronopoulos now say that, as children, they made false statements against the couple. The Chronopouloses are now adults; defense lawyers said a court order prohibits them from interviewing the other alleged victims. On the strength of the youngsters' testimony, Wilcox and Aldridge were convicted on 24 counts of sexually abusing children at the Glenburn Green Co-Operative apartments. Each is serving multiple life terms. A 1986 appeal by Aldridge failed, but this latest one offers previously undisclosed evidence that could exonerate the couple and discredit witness' statements, said Harry Reinhart, a Columbus attorney representing Aldridge. Reinhart said he has been working pro bono - without compensation - on the case "to try to correct a terrible miscarriage of justice." The highly publicized, emotionally charged jury trial ignited community outrage when bizarre details fo the alleged abuse came to light more than a decade ago. The children told how, at knife-point, they were forced to have sex with each other and with the couple. They also said that the couple took nude photos of them - but no photos were found. Testimony also included allegations that Wilcox rubbed a white cream all over the children's nude bodies, gave girls a shot in the vagina with something that looked like a doctor's needle, and made them drink some type of bitter liquid. Dr. Richard A. Gardner, a nationally recognized child psychiatrist and author of several books including "Protocols for the Sex Abuse Evaluation," is expected to testify at the hearing. Gardner said that Aldridge and Wilcox, who lived together in a common- law marriage, had no history that would indicate such deviant behavior. They display only normal heterosexual tendencies, Gardner said, and no evidence of pedophilia, or sexual attraction to children. Names of 22 children and 24 adults in the apartment complex were listed during the investigation, and "literally every male in the complex was either alleging his child was abuse or he was being accused of abusing children himself," Reinhart said. Gardner said the case reminds him of three notorious sex-abuse fabrication cases: California's McMartin case, North Carolina's Little Rascals case and New Jersey's Kelly Michaels case. "The phenomenon of self-perpetuating rumor is identical in all of these cases," Gardner said. He said that the children in the Wilcox case also lacked the emotional or behavior problems typically displayed by victims of child sexual abuse. "I've seen a lot of cases of bona fide sexual abuse and this is not one of them," Gardner said in an interview from his office in Cresskill, N.J. *********** CASE CHRONOLOGY 1985: Jennifer Wilcox and Robert Aldridge, then ages 23 and 20, are charged with multiple counts of rape and gross sexual imposition involving four children under the age of 13. Six children from their Huber Heights apartment complex testify against the pair, alleging bizarre sex acts and nude photography. A jury convicts the pair on the strength of the youths' testimony. The defendants receive multiple life sentences. 1986: An appeal by Aldridge fails. Aldridge questioned the children's competency to testify. But appellate judges said the youths did pass competency tests. 1994: After three of the six witnesses signed sworn statements recanting the testimony they gave as children, Wilcox's lawyers ask that her conviction be set aside. 1995: Aldridge's lawyers join Wilcox's appeal. 1996: A hearing is set to begin today. Lawyers for the couple will argue that the convictions resulted from "sex hysteria" and they say they intend to present new evidence to exonerate the pair and discredit the witnesses' testimony. Prosecutors say they stand by the jury's decision and they plan to argue to see that it is upheld. --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: Parens patriae Resource Center for Parents 540-896-4356 (1:2629/124) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: D3C00006Date: 03/05/96 From: RICK THOMA Time: 07:25pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Jenny Wilcox: 02/15/96 Dayton Daily News Thursday, Feb. 15, 1996 Page B1 Expert: Sex case tactics outrageous Says stories changed By Janice Haidet Morse The tactics used to get three boys to testify in a sex-abuse case, which led to life prison sentences for a Huber Heights couple, were coercive and outrageous, an expert on police interrogations testified Wednesday. "I could put this (case) in its own category," said Dr. Richard Ofshe, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. "It's very surprising to me that a police interrogator would make the statement that (the children ought) to be more afraid of her than they were of the perpetrator." Ofshe said police, prosecutors and other officials used a system of rewards, punishment and threats to get the three brothers to change their stories and "comply" with the case against Robert Aldridge and Jennifer Wilcox. The couple was sentenced to life in prison for multiple rapes and child-molestation convictions in 1985. Jennifer Bazell, the former Huber Heights police officer who interrogated the youngsters, could be called as a witness in the hearing and declined to comment Wednesday. The boys she questioned - John, Jason and Justin Chronopoulos - were about 11, 10 and 7 years old at the time. Now adults, the three this week gave testimony recanting their earlier statements. The brothers had never even seen Aldridge and Wilcox until the trial occurred, they testified, and only pointed out the couple because officials had shown them where the defendants would be seated in the courtroom. Under cross-examination, Ofshe said he concluded the brothers were coerced after he reviewed case records, including a tape-recorded interview of Bazell. Ofshe agreed better information could be obtained if he had spoken directly with officials involved in the case. But he said that wasn't necessary for him to reach a conclusion, "Sometimes you can smell a skunk from a distance - you don't have to get up close." Ofshe's testimony came in a hearing in which Aldridge and Wilcox are seeking to have their convictions voided. The hearing, which could conclude Friday, begins its third day today in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. The couple's lawyers are offering previously undisclosed evidence to try to prove the couple didn't get a fair trial 11 years ago. The lawyer who represented Aldridge at trial, Thomas Hanna of Dayton, testified Wednesday the prosecution's current packet of information contains several documents he doesn't remember seeing before: medical records, handwritten statements of parents, and a lengthy police report. "I'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind to not have remembered (these documents)," Hanna said, adding he felt having knowledge of the records could have significantly changed the course of the trial. Current defense lawyer Harry Reinhart has asserted some evidence favorable to his clients was "intentionally suppressed." Linda Howland an assistant Montgomery County prosecutor, said that accusation is "absurd." Regardless, Richard Dodge, a retired common pleas judge, testified even the accidental omission of such documents might be enough to throw out a conviction. With no medical or other evidence presented at the trial, the convictions of Aldridge and Wilcox relied upon testimony of six children, including the three Chronopoulos brothers. Given all six youths testified in 1985 they witnessed sex acts involving each other, Ofshe said the Chronopouloses' recantations "must raise a fundamental question about the reliability of witnesses who have not recanted." Dr. John J. Peterangelo of Fairborn, the physician for one of those remaining witnesses, a girl who was about 5 years old at the time of the alleged abuse, testified about an examination he performed on the girl. His records show on Aug. 30, 1984 - the same day Aldridge and Wilcox were arrested - the girl and her mother came into his office, and the mother told him the girl had been sexually assaulted by five adults. The woman also said the girl was "penetrated" both anally and vaginally "and that it happened four to five times." Despite this allegation, "the physical did not reveal any bruising, did not reveal any torn or traumatized tissue... no scars," Peterangelo said. He also said the child didn't appear to be emotionally traumatized. "The whole situation didn't add up to me at the time," he said. --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: Parens patriae Resource Center for Parents 540-896-4356 (1:2629/124) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: D3C00007Date: 03/05/96 From: RICK THOMA Time: 08:07pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Forwarded "Urgent" :01 Simulcast: VFALSAC, VOCAL, FMS Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:55:15 EST From: "Jonathan G. Harris, Dept. of Chem Eng, MIT" Subject: Urgent action needed to help another SRA hoax victim Originally to: Multiple recipients of list WITCHHNT [Please redistribute this to other relevant mailing lists] URGENT ACTION needed in Smithfield SRA case to help free Sonja Hill from prison. Sonja Hill is serving an unjust ten year prison sentence for satanic ritual abuse. The methods used to send Sonja and her boyfriend to prison are no better than those used to obtain the stories of alien abductions. In fact the child interviews shown on the Nova program appeared milder than those often used in SRA cases. If you read farther, you will see that even the district attorney has expressed skepticism. Sonja pleaded no contest to minor charges after her boyfriend, Pat Figured received three consecutive life sentences for charges that they raped children with a screw driver, dressed up as a devil and burned a bible, held sexual ceremonies involving candles, and made children drink urine. Further details of this case included the Figured's appeal brief and the outrageous appellate court decision keeping Pat Figured in prison can be obtained from: http://liquid2- sun.mit.edu/witchhunt.html. http://liquid2-sun.mit.edu/idiotic1.html Ann Lee, Sonja's sister wrote me and I talked with her on the phone. Sonja has been twice denied parole in North Carolina. Sonja was notified that her next hearing can come up ANY DAY. Thus time is of the essence. The family thinks that interest from people outside their family might spur the parole board to release her. Hill's family members believe that Juanita Baker, chairperson of the parole commission, is the key obstacle and that this is because of friendships with relatives of the accusing children. Please WRITE: Ms. Juanita Baker, Chairperson N. C. Parole Commission 831 W. Morgan Street Raleigh, NC 27603 phone 919/733-3414 and Mr. Franklin Freeman, Secretary of the Department of Corrections 214 West Jones Street Raleigh, NC 27600 phone 919/733-4926 Let them know that the WHOLE WORLD is learning about this outrageous miscarriage of justice through the internet. We are watching them. Let her know that this case is based on junk science. Let her know that the word that SRA is a hoax is spreading farther and farther. If you are a journalist, perhaps expressing interest in this story would also prod them to action. Of course the next step is justice for Pat Figured also (I need help; I am getting over my head). This case is truly as ludicrous as the alien abductions. ----Jonathan G. Harris, harris@mit.edu ABSTRACT from the web page. In short the story behind this case is that Patrick Figured's girlfriend's mother babysat a few children at her farm house. One two year old was having pain in the genital area and perhaps constipation. After seeing several doctors, the child ended up at Duke. There, a pediatrician who examined the child's anus decided there was the possibility of sexual abuse. The girl's case was referred to social worker Nancy Berson, who claims experience in satanic ritual abuse. During interviews that Ms. Berson admitted involved leading questions as to sexual and ritualistic abuse, she extracted accusations that Pat Figured molested the girl with a candle and screwdriver. She introduced Pat's name in the interview because the girl's mother insisted that Pat was the only person who had access to the child. Ms. Berson then used similar suggestive techniques on the girl's five year old brother and another two year old girl who attended the daycare. The accusations included molestation with objects, that Pat dressed up as the devil, burned a bible, had sex with his girlfriend and her daughter in front of the children, and made the children drink urine. Pat Figured was convicted and sentenced to three consecutive life terms in prison. Below is the appellate decision affirming his conviction. [cont] --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: Parens patriae Resource Center for Parents 540-896-4356 (1:2629/124) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: D3C00008Date: 03/06/96 From: NANCY EDDY Time: 12:40pm \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Tape Hello out there! Frank and I have been having trouble getting our messages out, but now, thanks to Rick, hopefully we have much of our problem solved. What I want to ask is this: Did anyone else out there watch the CBS two part movie "Gone in the Night"? We managed to tape the second half, but weren't able to tape the first. If anyone out there DID tape all of it, we would be glad to send you a tape or the money to get a copy. Thanks, Nancy Eddy ---<---<@ ... That which does not kill me only makes me stronger. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 -*- SF-Quick/BW 1.00m Beta [UNREGISTERED] --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (UNREG) * Origin: The Town Crier * Athens, Texas (1:2629/124.1)