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  • Rev. Peter says girl was in dire situation (when Boy's Town's director says things were bad...)

    11/23/2005 12:13:19 PM PST · by flixxx · 12 replies · 1,105+ views
    Tracey Dyess wanted to stand up in court Tuesday and shout at her mother: Why didn't you protect me? Attorney Chuck Fagan helps Tracey Dyess, 18, answer questions in Cass County, Iowa, District Court on Tuesday. Dyess pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a fatal fire and was sentenced to up to 45 years. Dyess told the Rev. Val Peter, executive director emeritus at Girls and Boys Town, that even though her mother and a grandmother deny it, they knew she was being sexually abused by her stepfather. Dyess ultimately didn't use her time in court to shout her accusatory...
  • Stepdad's trial starts in starvation of girl - "battered husband" remorseful (child kept in closet)

    12/06/2002 3:45:28 AM PST · by MeekOneGOP · 12 replies · 301+ views
    The Dallas Morning News ^ | December 6, 2002 | By JENNIFER EMILY / The Dallas Morning News
    Stepdad's trial starts in starvation of girl 'I know what I have done is wrong,' he says of child kept in closet 12/06/2002 By JENNIFER EMILY / The Dallas Morning News Kenneth Atkinson referred to Barbara Atkinson's daughter, who was starved and confined in a closet or small space for years, as "Barbie's secret." But Thursday, on the first day of testimony in Mr. Atkinson's trial, prosecutors said he also had a secret because he participated in years of abuse. Police rescued the girl from the Hutchins trailer in June 2001 after Mr. Atkinson told a neighbor Jeanie Rivers...