On Election Day, a Citizen Journalist reminds Martha Coakley: ‘Uncle Hurt Me’

Big Journalism ^ | Jan 19th 2010 | Gary Hewson

[Aracelis]

Today is election day in Massachusetts, for what could be the most important and ironic political race of the last 100 years: A country swerving out of control; helmed by a supermajority Democratic machine that might just be slammed back on the rails by a one-party Democratic state, that in any other time but this one, is of the bluest kind...

Snip: What Martha Coakley could never have guessed, was that in 2010, a citizen reporter would talk to Frank Frisoli and Frank would tell him an intimate detail of the case that has never been reported until now: and here is that most important detail: That Coakley’s office refused to consider the testimony of a 2-year old and withheld that information from the grand jury. Coakley’s office called Larry Frisoli and told him it was not solid or credible to rely on such a young girl’s words; even the clear and uncoached words “Uncle hurt me”...

[Aracelis]

I still think leaving a perp alone in a room full of Moms, Dads, etc., all armed with baseball bats is the way to go. Who wants to pay for their prison stay?