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"And how many 11 year olds need help undressing to take a shower? I haven't read anything that suggests that this girl was handicapped or retarded."

I haven't said that he didn't do it...he could be guilty, but I wouldn't rely on a confession made after six hours of questioning, to convict him. People will often make up stories to please their interrogators just to stop the unpleasantness of the interrogation. People who have recently lost a loved one are especially vulnerable to intimidation and coercion.

Imagine your dismay if your child had just died and instead of being able to grieve you were interrogated for six hours all the while being accused of raping her?

I find it troubling also that members of his family apparently all believe he is innocent. Shouldn't they know the suspect best? It also seems strange that the girl had a habit of hanging her stuffed animals with shoestrings from her bedpost, just as she was found?

I don't know. He is a monster if guilty, but I question the confession. See my post #116.

Kathryn Lyon, lawyer and author of the Wenatchee Report, interviewed many of the defendants. 1 This report became the basis of a book. 3 She found that most of the accused adults described Detective Perez' interview methods similarly. They described long interrogations involving "deprivation of sleep, food or breaks; repeated, leading questions; use of threats and intimidation; use of promises or incentives...use of profanity; derision and name-calling; officer's unyielding expectation of guilt and refusal to accept contradictory information." She noted that some of the defendant's "confessions" were written with a "vocabulary or language patterns far beyond the mental capacity of the defendant."

It also seems strange that the girl had a habit of hanging her stuffed animals with shoestrings from her bedpost, just as she was found?

I missed this in the thread. Can you point me to it please?

Imagine your dismay if your child had just died and instead of being able to grieve you were interrogated for six hours all the while being accused of raping her?

Don't forget the sodomy. Those dastardly KGB-like police "made" him confess in detail to more than just rape.

Unbelievable. Here in America!

/sarcasm