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Search results for "false accusations" ...
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No title (id: 12996)
This Democrat and Chronicle story documents the stories of several parents who have been falsly accused of sexual abuse by their grown children. The story chronicles the parents' struggle to prove their innocence and win back their children. (June 11 - 15, 1995)
Tags: More War of rememberance Sexual abuse Incest False Memory Syndorme Foundation Psychiatrists 10 pgs.
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Innocent, But Behind Bars
U.S. News reports on the murder of Pauline Martz, and the man who stands accused of her death. Johnny Lee WIlson, a 20-year-old mildly retarded man was questioned by police, and within a few hours confessed to the crime. The investigation reveals that the murder was not a closed case, and makes a startling case for why Wilson-in his ninth year behind bars-is an innocent man.
Tags: mental illness ARC Association for Retarded Citizens disabled false confessions
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Framed for a Murder
Dallas Morning News reports that a policeman in East Texas had been wrongly accused of capital murder and child molestation. Using details of the accusation, the News exposes major flaws in the state's criminal justice system and child protection laws. As a result of the articles, the policeman was exonerated.
Tags: trumped-up charges; child welfare; murder; false accusations
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The Puzzle of Memory
The Minneapolis Star Tribune series examines the controversy over recovered memories of childhood abuse. Many of the instances of recovered abuse have led to lawsuits, damage awards and destroyed lives. The Star Tribune profiles those who are speaking out about the abuse and those who say they have been falsely accused; a couple that has been accused of sexual abuse by their daughter, and a therapist who works with people that have reocvered memories, Oct, 10, 11, 12, 1993.
Tags: MN Ode Haga Molestation Psychiatrist Fasle Memory Pain; sexual abuse; repressed memory; law; court; memory; psychology; victim
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No title (id: 9322)
Orange County (Calif.) Register investigates sexual abuse of Orange County women by a gynecologist; accusations include rape, unnecessary laser surgery performed without anesthetic and false diagnoses of venereal disease; medical community had heard complaints for years but did not act, March - December 1992.
Tags: CA Kelleher Ivan Namahas
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No title (id: 7507)
Philadelphia Inquirer exposes a scheme by Cumberland Farms convenience stores to extort money from employees by falsely accusing them of stealing; accuses company of violating federal and state racketeering laws, conspiracy, mail and wire fraud, and malicious prosecution, July 1990.
Tags: Business
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PFC Griffin's Ordeal
CBS News 60 Minutes investigates the Army's handling of a private stationed in Honduras who was falsely accused of stealing his own M-16 and then threatened with torture if he did not reveal what had happened to his rifle; when the true culprit was discovered, the Army censured his superiors.
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No title (id: 7043)
Penthouse tells the story of how the Navy attempted to hide its own negligence by falsely accusing a sailor of rigging the gun turret explosion that killed 47 sailors on the U.S.S. Iowa in 1989; the Navy, which first hailed the yong man's actions after the explosion, later claimed a homosexual love spat led him to set the explosion, 1989.
Tags: Posner
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The Accused; Child-Abuse Charges Ensnare Some Parents in Baseless Proceedings
Wall Street Journal examines how easy it is for parents to be accused of child abuse and how hard it is for the parents to prove their innocence.
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Transit Officers in New York accused of Unlawful arrests
New York Times articles report several New York City transit police officers made scores of false or improper arrests in the subway system, and that no disciplinary action was taken despite an official investigation, .
Tags: New York City; subways; false arrests; public transportation