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Hoppy

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3. In New Jersey, we had the Margaret Kelly case.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 11:36 PM

Jul 2015

One of the charges included that she undressed the pre-school kids as a group and performed sexual acts on them. This was while other adults were on the property. Then she would get them dressed in time for the parents to pick them up.

Now, if you ever tried to dress even one toddler, imagine how difficult it would be to dress an entire group of, say five or six toddlers. It would be beyond herding cats.

Yet, she was convicted and sentenced to decades in prison.

Her conviction was overturned on appeal but not after she spent a few years in prison.

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How the daycare child abuse hysteria of the 1980s became a witch hunt [View all] DonViejo Jul 2015 OP

I remember the claim that children don't lie about sexual abuse. cpwm17 Jul 2015 #1

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In New Jersey, we had the Margaret Kelly case. Hoppy Jul 2015 #3

Have you ever seen a class of kindergarteners, murielm99 Aug 2015 #4