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In court the kids said "Mommy put her mouth on my penis, and her finger in my bottom". Did the CPS made them say that? How do 6 and 9 year olds say that?! And if they were told to say it, why didn't they say that the CPS made them?
shareThe whole debacle was amazingly screwed up.
The kids tried telling people, including the prosecutors, that these things never happened. They badgered the kids until they agreed to say anything, all the while telling the kids that this was the only way they would get back to their parents.
They told the kids that if they said these things, they would go home and their parents would as well. In the preliminary hearings, the kids told the judge that none of it happened yet the case went forward.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kern_county_child_abuse_cases
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It was also alleged during the court hearing that there was medical evidence of the kids' being phyically abused. How did the court accept that evidence, if it was not true?
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In the early 1980s there was a test accepted by many paediatricians (which I believe was used in this case) which was supposed to conclusively prove that anal penetration had taken place on a child. It has since been utterly discredited. Medical opinion does change, and what is considered irrefutable proof at one time is quite commonly considered scientifically unsound some years later. In addition, in this case the judge was particularly biased and allowed evidence from paediatricians employed by the prosecution (who supported this test and claimed it conclusively proved the children had been molested) but not those employed by the defence (who opposed it and disagreed).
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