-Caveat Lector-
"...University of Washington memory expert Elizabeth Loftus contend that
Ingram's guilty plea was based on a false memory..."
{Would it be more accurate to describe Elizabeth Loftus
as a cover-up 'expert'?}
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http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_0409_news_satanic_rituals.5ba95546.html
Man Accused of Rape in Satanic Rituals Nears Release
04/09/2002
Associated Press
The former Thurston County sheriff's deputy who pleaded guilty to raping
his daughters in satanic rituals is nearing release from prison. The
state Corrections Department says Paul Ingram can be released from a
Delaware prison when he has a plan for treatment and counseling.
He pleaded guilty in 1989 in Olympia in a case that that raised
questions about recovered memory allegations.
Sociologist Richard Ofshe and University of Washington memory expert
Elizabeth Loftus contend that Ingram's guilty plea was based on a false
memory. They say he was encouraged by his pastor, a psychologist and
police interrogators. They told him he'd be able to remember what
happened if he confessed.
Sheriff Gary Edwards said he has no doubts about the confession or
qualms about sending Ingram to prison.
(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc44406/smwane/Ingram5.htm
The Olympian, Trhusday, Dec. 1, 1994, page C1
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Ingram seeks pardon from state
By Brad Shannon
Board will recommend: The state Clemency and pardons Board will listen
to the sheriff deputy convicted of incest on Friday.
A former top Thurston County sheriff's deputy convicted of incest is
seeking a pardon or some other help from Gov. Mike Lowry.
Advocates for Paul Ingram, who's controversial case is discussed in
several new books, will be given a hearing sometime after 9 a.m. Friday
before the Clemency and Pardons Board.
Because of an outpouring of interest, the meeting has been moved to a
larger room, Hearing Room 4, in the Cherberg Building, which is the
Senate office building, according to Anne Fennessy, the governor's press
secretary.
The board can reject Ingram's request, ask for more information or make
a recommendation of anything from a partial to full pardon, according to
Fennessy. The five-member board's rulings are advisory only, although
18 clemency actions have been taken by Washington governors since 1986,
Fennessy said.
But as one of some 22 cases before the pardons board, Ingram supporters
may have little time to make a case.
Ingram, the former top civil sheriff's deputy and head of the Thurston
County Republican Party, pleaded guilty to six counts of child rape in
1989 and is serving a 20-year prison term at Delaware State Prison.
He since has tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming
he was coerced into confessing to acts he did not commit.
But both the state Supreme Court and U.S. District Court have upheld the
validity of Ingram's plea, which also underwent a five-day review in
Thurston County Superior Court.
Gary Tabor, the county's chief criminal deputy prosecutor, says Ingram
implicated himself in statements to police, long before investigators, a
minister or psychologists got involved in the questioning.
However, victims of so-called "recovered memory" are rallying behind
Ingram, creating a defense fund and trying to generate support for his
cause.
The advocates suggest Ingram's memories of abuse were manufactured.
Among those advocates is Seattle-based Chuck Noah, a former Lewis County
resident, who says he himself was falsely accused of abuse by his
daughter after a therapist encouraged her to remember events that Noah
claims were fictitious.
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Page C2
Ingram conviction heats up debate on recovered memories
By Brad Shannon
Who's the victim? Some activists say memories of past sex abuse are
often the result of poor therapy.
The Paul Ingram case lies at the center of a national debate over the
value of so-called "recovered memories" of childhood sexual abuse.
Activists rallying behind Ingram, who was convicted of raping his
daughters, say memories of long-forgotten sex abuse are actually the
result of sloppy therapy or implanting, a phenomenon they call false
memory syndrome.
Among the activists is Chuck Noah, a Seattle man who was accused of
abuse by one of his own daughters, a charge Noah heatedly denies. Noah
believes Ingram similarly was the victim of false accusations.
But Thurston County Sheriff Gary Edwards and Chief Criminal Deputy
Prosecutor Gary Tabor have stood by investigator' handling of the case
in which Ingram, a former top official in the sheriff's office, admitted
his guilt and then tried to take back his guilty plea.
"Before there was any opportunity for anyone to brainwash him, he had
already admitted (the abuse)," Tabor said Wednesday. "The brainwashing
theory was only a theory."
Those advocating he brainwashing theory have had several chances to make
their case, Tabor said, "but it has been found not to be credible by any
number of courts." Tabor noted that the Superior Court, Court of
Appeals, state Supreme Court and U.S. District Court in Seattle all have
let Ingram's plea stand.
Edwards said recently that Ingram had admitted molesting his daughters -
even before Ingram was subjected to questioning that became the focus of
critical books, magazine articles and television specials.
After being told the girls would need counseling, Ingram told Edwards:
"You better get some help for the boys (Ingram's sons), too."
But in Lawrence Wright's book, "Remembering Satan: A Case of Recovered
Memory and the Shattering of an American Family," Ingram is described as
being encouraged by both police investigators and his pastor to recall
events.
According to Wright's research of the Ingram case files, Ingram was told
that in cases like this one, a suspect sometimes will find that he can
remember better once he confesses.
A day or hours after certain questions would be asked concerning new
allegations made by his daughters, Ingram would come back with detailed
recollections that seemed to incorporate the previous day's questions.
Ingram also made hypothetical statements, describing how he would have
done the abuse, if he were to have done it.
Ingram was arrested on the charges in 1989. No physical evidence of
sexual abuse or satanic activity was ever produced.
The most bizarre element in the Ingram case involved unproven
allegations by Ingram's daughters that he and numerous other deputies
engaged in satanic rituals that included the sacrifice of babies and
sexual abuse.
Police dug up land around Ingram's home on Fir Tree Loop, but found no
bones.
Two other men accused of sex abuse in the case were never brought to
trial as the daughters' stories became entwined in stories of Satanism.
Charges against the men eventually were dropped, but Undersheriff Neil
McClanahan, who led the investigations has refused to clear their names.
Richard Ofshe, a Berkeley sociologist who believes Ingram manufactured
his memories of satanic abuse, has suggested the sheriff's office went
on a modern-day witchhunt.
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http://www.manaco.simplenet.com/okingram.html
Paul Ingram was an Olympia, Washington Kiwanis member and was a Thurston
County Deputy Sheriff.
The Olympia Washington Kiwanis members and their friends have cost the
Washington State taxpayers over $50 million dollars (so far), because of
their willful ignorance of long term, merciless and well known, child
abuse that occurred at the Olympia Kiwanis Boys Ranch.
Back to the2001 or 1999 or 1997 or 1995 Washington State Employees
Salaries List
Back to the beginning OKBR Home Page(http://manaco.simplenet.com)
Paul Ingram was an Olympia Kiwanis Member and was the chief civil deputy
for the Thurston County Sheriffs office, in the late 1980s, (under
Kiwanis member and Sheriff Gary Edwards). Paul Ingram was an OKBR board
member and was charged with rape and with accusations of satanic rites,
and sexual misconduct "beyond any known human behavior".
Here's a chronology from the Dec. 2, 1990 Olympian, about Paul Ingram
and Thurston County's costliest investigation.
In 1989, Paul Ingram, a deputy sheriff in Olympia, Wash., received a
20-year prison sentence for sexually abusing his two daughters in
satanic rituals. The trial sparked widespread debate about "recovered
memory syndrome," covered by Ethan Watters in Mother Jones (July/August
1991, Jan./Feb. 1993), and later in his book, co-authored by Richard
Ofshe, Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual
Hysteria (New York: Scribners, 1994).
Here's a link to a website about Paul Ingram:
http://members.aol.com/ingramorg/
Until Oct 1999, I believed that the Kiwanians and their friends were
guilty of careless neglect or callous indifference. After hearing
frightening audio depositions from some of the abused kids, I now
believe that these Thur Co citizens were involved with an "active
collaboration with evil." According to these depositioned kids, (which
was not contradicted by Kiwanian attorney Don Miles), the OKBR staff was
involved in long-term molestation and sadistic abuse of these helpless
children. DSHS, Olympia, & the Kiwanians criminally ignored the warning
signs and then justified their inaction by claiming ignorance. Many of
these inattentive judges, lawyers, & politicians want your vote for
re-election.
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