-Caveat Lector- Hi ! The latest issue of smart is out, with information on mind control, experimentation, cults and recovered memory. http://members.aol.com/SMARTNEWS/Sample-Issue-40.htm this may be heavy for survivors of abuse. Articles on Wenatchee Consultant Finds No Fault in Sex Ring Probe - Tri-City Herald, A7, 2/22/96, (AP) Wenatchee - A consultant hired by the city's insurer to look into the way Wenatchee police conducted child sex-abuse investigations said Wednesday the cases were properly handled. "In hindsight, anything can be done better. But what I'm here to tell you is that the investigator met the standard of care that is exercised in the policy industry in this case," retired Bellevue Police Chief D.P. "Don" Van Blaricom told reporters at a city hall news conference...A justice Department Investigation, completed last month, found no evidence of civil-rights violations...He (Van Blaricom) also said he found nothing improper in asking alleged victims leading questions, or in police lying or using a ruse to get a confession from a suspect..."I found (the report by Kathryn Lyons criticizing police methods in the case)... was based upon interviews with disgruntled employees at CPS..., interviews with people who (pleaded) guilty or were found guilty by juries..." (Note: in a 11/27/97 article "Ex-chief accused of sexual abuse" Van Blaricom is accused of alleged sexual abuse.) Lowry's request for federal review of sex-ring probe draws attack - Tri-city Herald - 10/6/95 (AP) - Wenatchee - Police and Prosecutors are complaining that Justice Department officials considering a federal inquiry into Wenatchee's sex-ring investigation are working from a one-sided report compiled by critics of the probe...Twenty eight adults have been charged since last fall with child rape and sexual abuse in what authorities describe as two loosely organized sex rings in operation since 1988. Authorities say as many as 50 children may have been involved. Doctor confirms abuse in sex-ring case - (AP) 12/5/96 - Waterville - "One girl showed definite medical signs of sexual abuse and it could not be ruled for two others, a defense witness testified (Dr Deborah Harper)...in the child rape and molestation trial of a Pentacostal preacher and his wife... Prosecutors allege unordained pastor Robert "Roby" Roberson and his wife, Connie, has sex with children at the East Wenatchee Pentacostal Church of God House and Prayer and at their home." Pastor, wife charged with perjury, fraud - AP - Tri-city Herald 10/7/95 - "Waterville - A pastor and his wife awaiting trial on charges they were participating in a child sex ring were charged today with perjury and welfare fraud." "...Pleads guilty to fraud" Tri-City Herald - Doug Campbell (staff writer) "Robert Roberson pleaded guilty to one count of first degree theft, a felony, and one count of "false swearing," a gross misdemeanor. He originally faced eight counts of perjury and one count of first degree theft." (All charges were dismissed against his wife - Pastor Wants Credit for Media Time - 7/12/96 Tri-City Herald A5 (AP)) LSD "guinea pig" wins key court victories - By JIM BRONSKILL and MIKE BLANCHFIELD Southam Newspapers OTTAWA - "The federal government and a former prison psychologist have confessed to battery and negligence for giving LSD to a teenaged inmate in the 1960s. The admission by the government and psychologist Mark Eveson in Ontario's Superior Court of Justice is a key victory for former prisoner Dorothy Proctor in her three-year battle for compensation. A total of 23 female inmates were administered LSD as part of a 1961 study at the now-defunct federal Prison for Women in Kingston, Ont. At 18 and serving a three-year robbery sentence, Proctor received at least one dose of the powerful hallucinogen in a 1.5-metre-by-2.5-metre windowless basement segregation cell, lit by a single bulb with only a mattress and a hole in which to pass bodily waste. In 1998, Proctor sued the government and former Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) officials for giving her the drug, saying it has caused brain damage and terrifying hallucinations." Lawsuit paints LSD experiment as journey to the mind's frontier by Jim Bronskill and Mike Blanchfield - Southam Newspapers Ottawa - "To Dr. Ewen Cameron, Canada's prisons seemed like a logical place to conduct experiments on what strange new drugs could do to the human mind. In 1953, the McGill University psychiatrist wrote to the second in command of Canada's prison service to see if he had any insights into "the pharmacological, psychological and surgical suppression or obliteration of certain functions of behaviour as a research tool." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psnews/message/370 also see smart issue #39 for other articles Articles on the Amirault Case Sexual abuse victim knows kids can't make it all up by Joe Fitzgerald - 8/8/01 - Boston Herald, mentions the Amirault case. Amirault's accusers reveal their faces, and their pain - by Peter Gelzinis 8/7/01 - Almost a year before the world ever heard of the Fells Acres Day School, Barbara Standke sought out psychiatric help for her 4-year-old son, Brian. During that lonely summer, no one was speaking of group hysteria, or interview techniques that amounted to "brainwashing.'' All this nurse knew was that the little boy she dropped off at day care was acting very strangely. ``He'd begun to touch me in ways that were inappropriate,'' Standke recalled, ``or he'd try to kiss me with his tongue.'' ....When Barbara confided her concern about the scratches on her son's groin to Violet Amirault, proprietor of Fells Acres, she was told such things happen to kids. Both Vi and her daughter, Cheryl, she said, ``laughed and told me not to worry.'' http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/gelzinis08072001.htm Amiraults' lead prosecutor Hardoon blames media spin. Hardoon: "the most amazing manipulation and media spin." SUNDAY TELEGRAM - Worcester, MA- 7/22/01 page B1 " by Sandy Quadros Bowles, Sexual offenders who prey on children can pose a danger their entire lives, according to a high-profile prosecutor of several well-known child abuse cases."Once a predator, always a predator," said Laurence E. Hardoon, who works for the firm of Brody, Hardoon, Perkins and Kesten in Boston. "Sexual predators remain threats indefinitely."... Mr. Hardoon was closely involved in the Fells Acre day care case, one of the most controversial child sexual abuse cases in state history. In the mid-1980s, Mr. Hardoon was the lead prosecutor in the case against Gerald "Tooky" Amirault, his sister Cheryl Amirault LeFave and their mother, Violet Amirault. The three were accused of sexually abusing children at the Fells Acre Day School in Malden, which was owned by Ms. Amirault....Mr. Hardoon, who still supports the convictions, described this response as "the most amazing manipulation and media spin." He said this theory presumes that the social workers were "naive and stupid" and that the "police had nothing better to do than to fabricate this enormous web" and were "able to get the kids to tell the same false stories." Those same arguments were offered by the defense during the original trials, Mr. Hardoon said, but were rejected by the jury because they didn't make sense, he said." Mass. Victims Fight Commutation Plea - By Leslie Miller, AP Writer, "Gerald Amirault has served 15 years of a 30- to 40-year sentence. Last month, the parole board recommended commutation of his sentence, saying there is ``substantial doubt'' about his conviction....`During counseling meetings as a child, I would speak of a tall man touching me and taking pictures of me,'' Phaedra Hopkins, 20, said at an emotional news conference. ``So many times, Mr. Amirault hovered over me, touched me and hurt me and committed many disgusting acts of abuse.''...``We weren't coaxed. We weren't lying. 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