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"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."

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....

[snarkytart]

McMartin was an acquittal.

Also, David Westerfield was caught because Danielle VanDam's blood was on his jacket, and other fiber evidence.
If he was driven around without water for 19 hours it didn't bother him, because he never confessed, and to this day claims he is innocent. BTW..DW was a rich inventor, he knew his rights.

There is a difference between an adult being squeezed for information by police and a child being squeezed .
No matter who it is, I want police/prosecutors to stay within the bounds of the law and ethics.