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system: You are George Hero, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "For your info...".

They wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> AP.state (08-29) 10:41:46
>
> Judge Grants Amirault Women New Trial On Sexual Abuse Conviction
>
> GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
>
> BOSTON (AP) -- A judge today ruled that two women convicted of
> sexually abusing children at the Fells Acres Day School in Malden
> eight years ago should be granted a new trial.
>
>
> In his ruling, issued in Lowell Superior Court, Barton granted the
> new trial because some of the women's accusers did not face them
> when they testified in court. Instead, four children testified while
> facing the jury, with their backs to the Amiraults.
>
> ``The special seating arrangement for the children prevented justice
> from being done,'' Barton wrote. ``The Constitution and the rights
> it affords are fundamental and should be upheld despite any
> intervening factors.''

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 Date:    29 Aug 95  11:55:25  Private
 From:    harris@MIT.EDU                                    (396/17)
 To:      George Hero                                       (396/17)
 Subject: Convictions of Cheryl and Violet Amirault overturned.    [1]
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From: "Jonathan G. Harris, Dept. of Chem Eng, MIT" <harris@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Convictions of Cheryl and Violet Amirault overturned.
Yes it is real! Excerpts from the AP report are below. Certainly a time
for rejoicing. Though keep in mind that while a majority of child abuse
cases involve real abuse, there are still many innocent people left rotting
in prison from other bogus charges. Debbie Nathan has been acting as a
"clearing house" trying to obtain information on these. Anyone who knows of
other examples, contact me (or Debbie directly if you have her email address
or phone number. I don't know if she wants her phone number distributed).
After the AP report with my commentary I will add a version of Debbie
athan's
list as a reminder.
AP reports:
............
There then is a brief paragraph on Gerald's pending appeal before
Elizabeth Dolan.
system: You are George Hero, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "For your info...".

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 From:    harris@MIT.EDU                                    (396/17)
 To:      George Hero                                       (396/17)
 Subject: 02:Convictions of Cheryl and Violet Amirault overturned.
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                                             Robin Byrum
                                             Shelley Stone
Memphis, Tennessee:                          Frances Ballard
                                             Betty Stimpson
                                             Rev. Paul Shell
                                             Jeffery Stimpson
Clarksville, Maryland:                       Sandra Graig
                                             Jamal Graig
Essex County, New Jersey:                    Darren Nottensteiner
                                             Margaret Kelly Micheals
White Plains, New York:                      Jeannette Martin
Bronx, New York:                             Jesus Torres
                                             Albert Algarin
                                             Franklin Beauchamp
                                             Alberto Ramos
                                             Herminia Albo
Great Neck, New York:                        Arnold Friedman =
                                               (died in prison)
Lafayette, New York:                         Denise Perrigo
*Cities, counties and states where individuals lived at the time the
charges surfaced.
Compiled by:
     Debbie Nathan
     Journalist
     El Paso, Texas
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system: You are George Hero, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "For your info...".

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 Date:    30 Aug 95  05:55:40  Private
 From:    DANCC%CUNYVM.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU                 (396/17)
 To:      George Hero                                       (396/17)
 Subject: WSJ Fells Acre editorial
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From: Dan McCracken <DANCC%CUNYVM.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject: WSJ Fells Acre editorial
Today's Wall Street Journal has a lead editorial on the Fells Acre
reversal.  It's 31 column inches.  Congratulations, Jonathan.
Dan McCracken, Computer Science, City College of New York
New York, NY 10031    212-650-6162
DANCC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU      Internet
Home address OK too:
Home office: 212-927-1102   Home fax: 212-568-9311
160 Cabrini Blvd. Apt. 136  New York, NY 10033
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system: You are Charles Ring, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Don Herman about "More Child Abuse".

They wrote:
DH> A police sergeant in upstate New York, having read some of my
DH> reporting on corporal punishment in public schools around the country,
DH> sent me a set of color photographs from a police lab. They were of his
DH> son, a third-grader.
DH> The boy had inadvertently yelled out when another student kicked him.
DH> Having thereby violated the school rule against noisemaking in class,
DH> he was paddled 12 times on the buttocks by the principal wielding a
DH> heavy paddle. That afternoon, the same incorrigible boy tripped over a
DH> desk and again made noise. The principal whacked the kid vigorously
DH> again.

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assistant: Aside from the corporal punishment issue, this sounds like an extreme case of
a child being marked as the "school goat", as I painfully remember.
system: You are George Hero, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Wenatchee".

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 From:    Cartmill@AOL.COM                                  (396/17)
 To:      George Hero                                       (396/17)
 Subject: Fwd: Bad news
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Well here we go again. Karen Lopez was arrested again today after being
released last night. At this point, I don't know how Lopez is related to
everything but she knows Linda Miller. Miller's trial is next up. Miller had
signed a confession but has since recanted stating that Perez forced her to
sign it.
I talked with Connie Fry last night and she had Lopez at her house after
picking her up from jail. Apparently today, Delong, attorney for Miller,
called Lopez and ask if she would testify for Miller. Lopez said yes and
several hours later she was arrested and charged with 5 counts of child
molest.
In another story - The Wenatchee World reported today that Leo Catchaway
pleaded guilty to three counts of child molest. Leo is Indian and lived with
the Holts, where all of this began. Leo is reported to be the cameraman,
videoing all of the sex orgies. Mark Doggett was in jail in Wenatchee with
Leo and says that Leo is innocent but was going to plea bargain because he
didn't think anybody would believe him or would care. He wanted to spend his
time in Canada. I'll keep you informed with what happens here.
Kim
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system: You are Hank Ball, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Valery Frosty about "Re: My Little One".

They wrote:
VF> At this moment my little one, Michelle, is drifting off to
VF> sleep in her own bed - for the first time in 263 days!  I
HB> Val and Don...I don't know how you did it, but CONGRATULATIONS! I am
HB> *very* happy for you!
VF> We couldn't have done it without the support of you and many
VF> others. That support gave us the strength and the courage to
VF> keep on fighting even when it looked like we wouldn't win.
VF> Your prayers added to the hundreds of others certainly
VF> helped as well.

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assistant: Valery of 1:161/19.0, writing to Hank typed:
Michelle, you have a wonderful set of loving parents...Be sure to always
cherish them...They are the kind of people that I would be proud to call
"friend"...
Sincerely,
            Hank Ball
system: You are Rick Thoma, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Valery Frosty about "Munchausen's Syndrome By Proxy".

They wrote:
> . . . I hope they can use the DAUBERT criteria. . .

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assistant: I might suggest coordinating with Roger Brown on this one, as I gather he is
preparing a case based, at least in part, upon this criteria.
system: You are Bill Swan, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Don Herman about "Lost?".

They wrote:
DH>Hey Bill,
DH>Do you know what has happened to Roger Brown?
DH>I was in the process of setting up an interview with him on the
DH>conference I moderate, CN Legal_Arts, when I moved.  I had one contact
DH>with him but lost his address.  I have posted a couple times to him
DH>about that but so far, no response.
DH>Let me know if you know anything, please.
DH>Don
DH>* SLMR 2.1a * I want to be a procrastinator, but I kept putting it off.

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assistant: Don,
Good to hear from you!!!  I'm afraid I don't know at all what happened
to Roger.  I was off Fido for so long... If you know what echoes he
frequented I will see if I can locate him on the ones I have access to.
-Bill
You too?
 * OLX 2.1 TD * He who hesitates is probably correct.
system: You are Bill Swan, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Rick Thoma about "re: corresponding w/accu".

They wrote:
RT>Bill:
RT>I gather that you have done some counseling of prisoners, and was
RT>wondering what your feelings are regarding corresponding with those
RT>individuals mentioned in the list posted by George Hero.
RT>As much time as some of us spend in these conferences, it stands to
RT>reason that we could readily find a few minutes to exchange a letter
RT>with someone we believe to have been falsely imprisoned.
RT>To take this a step further, Amnesty International has a program
RT>wherein they select, by some means, a political prisoner on a monthly
RT>basis, launching a letter writing campaign on his/her behalf.  I am
RT>wondering what your thoughts might be regarding the similar
RT>implementation of such a program by one or another of the groups
RT>involved on the side of the issue addressed by this conference?

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assistant: Rick,
This is an excellent idea!!  During my time Inside the letters from the
people who took the time to write were, well, a lifeline to me.  I had
met very very few of them; most of them had learned about us through the
Swan Defense Fund's mailing list (and I will never know how that mailing
list was compiled).  There was no expectation that we'd meet after I got
out, though I always had hope and in a few cases it became so.
But knowing that people who didn't know us personally (and thus perhaps
have other motives, such as simple friendship) would take the time to
write, to engage in correspondence, just because of their belief in our
wrongful conviction, was a tremendous support to us.  Speaking strictly
for myself, it made all the difference in how I got through the worst of
the times.
It didn't matter that I didn't know them, or anything about them but
what they wrote.  They were just writing to support and uplift us.  And
they were a link to the outside world that had become so remote.  One
correspondent is a journalist; every few months I received copies of her
journal about her trips to Africa, St. Petersburg, cruising the Caribbean
(as much a crackup as Twain's _The Innocents Abroad_).  All things I could
not do, but I could experience them through her correspondence.
Most didn't live such lives, but to just hear even the small details was
something.  One woman had a daughter who was tring to get into the Seattle
Youth Symphony, and I heard a lot about that.  Another moved from Seattle
to eastern Washington; I heard a lot about what a change that was!  I
learned about farming, about ferrets as pets, engaged in a debate over the
King James Bible... and all of it helped me feel that there might be a
place for me Outside still when my time was up.
This is an excellent idea.  I fully support and encourage it.
 * OLX 2.1 TD * Repetition confers neither reliability nor veracity.
system: You are Bill Swan, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Valery Frosty about "Re: V.O.C.A.L. echo".

They wrote:
VF>About the VOCAL echo...
VF> BS> Thanks, Valery!  I have put in a request to the sysop to get the
VF> BS> If he is able to get it, I will be there.
VF>Wonderful!!!  I am writing a letter to NASVO with the information so they
VF>can put it in their newsletter.  That should increase the traffic by quite
VF>a bit! <g>
VF>I need to get WITCHHNT too.  I tried to get it once and for some reason
VF>it didn't go through.  I guess I'll have to try it again.
VF>In case you missed it, we went to court on 8/18 and won!  Our daughter
VF>came home four hours later!  Needless to say, we are all ecstatic!

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assistant: Hello, Valery!!
cho.
Well, thus far the sysop hasn't acquired either; I'm not too sure what
the problem is.  Probably none of the sites he talks to carries it, no
doubt.
Do.  Because of the volume, and because a lot of it is bickering between
a very small group of participants, I get the daily digest.  That makes
it a small nuisance to reply to individual submissions, but it doesn't
clutter up my already cluttered mailbox.
Valery, I did hear this on WITCHHNT -- we cheered!
 * OLX 2.1 TD * Weekend specials rarely are.
system: You are Bill Swan, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Matt Giwer about "Keri Jewel..witness?".

They wrote:
MG>BS>  Actually, it was the lead-in for the Keri Jewel story,
MG>BS>  Matt.
MG>     In that case, read from the message I just entered in
MG>Politics.
MG>Origin: DOC'S - 0437 - Politics
MG>  From: MATT GIWER                    Public
MG>    To: MICHAEL SHIRLEY
MG>  Date: 08/15/95 at 22:48
MG>    Re: Waco Truth emerges
MG>------------------------------------------------------------
MG>-------------------
MG>--------------------
MG>MS> MG>DD>   Yep, and it was that rapist whom you're attempting to
MG>MS> MG>DD>   whitewash who gets most of the blame for their deaths.
MG>BS> MG> These days, "for the children," justifies anything, ask the
MG>BS> MG> McMartins.
MG>BS> Don't I know it.
MG>     A sheltered life.  In California, a preschool where children
MG>were not only "molested" but hundreds of them were, the pshch was
MG>creating the memories, some nine million dollars and seven years.
MG>Tunnels were alleged and never a tunnel found.  Absolutely zero
MG>tangible evidence ever at any time.
MG>     HBO has a two hour dramatization on it, better than their
MG>usual work.  About what I remember from the papers.  I didn't
MG>have the time to follow it closely as it was happening.

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assistant: [...]
Yow.  It never ends, does it?
We don't have HBO but were able to preview the movie a couple weeks
or so before it aired, courtesy of some producers interested in and
following our story.  I found it hard to watch -- though I know the
McMartin case pretty well, first from _The Politics of Child Abuse_
by Paul & Shirley Eberle (_not_ the other book by the same title --
the Eberle book is sometimes listed as _Pity the Poor Children: The
Politics of Child Abuse_!), and later from a McMartin supporter and
the McMartins, well, it still made me rather angry.
But the McMartins have come through well, they are strong people and
still gracious folk.
 * OLX 2.1 TD * Life takes you places you had no intention of going.
system: You are Bill Swan, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Michelle Frosty about "I'm Home!".

They wrote:
MF> I'm  home.  And I'm happyer than ever.
MF>Thank you for the prayers and wishing me home.
MF>                        From,
MF>                        Michelle Lea Frosty

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assistant: Congratulations, Michelle!!
 * OLX 2.1 TD * It's only a hobby ... only a hobby ... only a
system: You are Rick Thoma, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bill Swan about "corresponding w/accu".

They wrote:
> This is an excellent idea. . .

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assistant: There are two distinct aspects to it.  First is that which you have
described, the lifting of the hopes of those falsely imprisoned.  I won't
amplify on what you have already stated by way of reply.
Next we have the letter writing campaign, ala Amnesty International, in which
one person is, (by some means or another), selected for the mailing.  The
target of such a mailing would be Congress-persons and Senators, both State
and Federal, in whose districts the cases took place.  Also, local
newspapers, talk radio shows, and the TV tabloid press.  (20/20, American
Journal - that sort of tabloid).
Can't forget the Governor of the State, as well as those intermediate parties
along the chain of his command, the District Attorney, the local mayor, and
town and county commissions.  The Wall Street Journal has taken a position
favorable to the falesly assused, particularly with regard to the Witch
Hunts, (its term), of the 1980s.  Hence, I would suggest that copies also be
cc'ed to them as well.
Quite naturally, these letters would request an investigation, and possible
re-opening of the case.  Between the four available FIDO conferences,
(VFALSAC, VOCAL, FMS, CHILD_ABUSE_ISSUES), the Internet mailing lists, and
the VOCAL newsletters, this could be quite readily accomplished.  Even as few
as one thousand people sending out a multiple ten or twelve such letters on a
monthly basis would be certain to have some impact.  The question is one of
organizing such an effort.
As for who does the selecting, and what criteria is to be applied in the
selection, I'm at a complete loss.  As I am not connected with the VOCAL
organization, I am also at a loss as to how to motivate them to consider this
course, so I'll leave that matter to one or more of the conference
participants.
I submit that if someone does run with this idea, the upcoming VOCAL
conference would be the ideal place to announce it.
system: You are Don Herman, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bill Swan about "Lost?".

They wrote:
BS>DH>about that but so far, no response.
BS>DH>Let me know if you know anything, please.
BS>DH>Don
BS>Don,
BS>Good to hear from you!!!  I'm afraid I don't know at all what happened
BS>to Roger.  I was off Fido for so long... If you know what echoes he
BS>frequented I will see if I can locate him on the ones I have access to.

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assistant: Hello again Bill,
(snip)....
(About locating Roger Brown)....
Good to hear from you too.  Thanks for any assistance.  I appreciate it.
Don
* SLMR 2.1a * Origin: Sophia Education BBS, Creswell, OR (503) 942-9400
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system: You are George Hero, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Victims/Falseacc message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "For your info...".

They wrote:
>> CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS MESSAGE <<

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 From:    DrOnyx@AOL.COM                                    (396/17)
 To:      George Hero                                       (396/17)
 Subject: "Beleive the Children" on Wenatchee                      [2]
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apologies for inaccuracies in an article about the HBO movie on the McMartin
case in a previous issue.
Believe the Children can be reached at:
PO Box 797
Cary, IL 60013
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