The prosecutors manipulated the kids so deftly that their imaginations went absolutely wild: eventually, they were claiming they were raped by scissors, that an evil doll had raped them, that they had donned robes, descended into a magic chamber where they were made to rip the wings off birds....
Counselors also withheld water from thristy kids in "interviews" (interrogations), and later permitted them to slake their thirst after they had given them what they were after.
Some of the minutes of these interrogations are either horrifying, or completely hilarious, it's hard to decide which.
THAT'S THE POWER OF THE STATE.
Yeah. Right in the middle of that case falling apart, idiotic radio host Carole Hemmingway kept insisting that the charges were true because "children NEVER lie." She kept repeating that over and over again. Made me laugh. Yeah, children NEVER Lie. Riiiiiiight.
okay, let's talk about police and DA misconduct in a broader sense.....
David Westerfield, notorious child killer, was driven around for reports up to 19 hours without food or water or sleep with the cops, sans lawyer.....
but that was forgiven by the public....
the public has got to see that if one police/DA office gets away with misconduct, others will follow suit.....
sometimes it will nab a bad person, like a Westerfield, but sometimes it will nab innocent people like in the McMartin case or the case of the "Little Rascal" daycare center.....
I'm not saying that I think nothing happened at Mc Martin, or at "little Rascals" but I am saying that the prosecution was so overboard that a guilty verdict was virtually assured....