Reply #39: Just watched the press conference on Anderson Cooper.

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The mother actually recognized both her daughter and the suspect (Chester the Molester) in the tape.

Apparently the girl was 3 when the tape was made, and she is 7 now, with no conscious memory of having been molested. The suspect was a friend of the family in some way, but the sheriff's dept. refused to tell the media how he was connected to the little girl, or how he might have had access to her. The mother had no idea that any of this had happened, and didn't know until tonight about any of this because she hadn't been watching the news.

The media seems to know some things the Sheriff's dept. is not releasing publicly - for one thing, I heard two separate reporters ask about someone named "Stephanie Allen". I don't know if this is the mother, or the person who owned the place where the videotape was made, or a friend of the suspect.

The Sheriff's dept has now asked the media to stop showing her face now that she's been found, and they seem to be complying.

Oh, and the guy who turned the tape in who claimed he had found it in the desert failed a lie detector test.