• The Fells Acres Day Care Center saw children explaining they were taken to a secret room, never located, where they described being molested by a fire-throwing clown, a biting robot, and lobsters, all of which was ignored except for the molesting part, for a combined sentence of over 80 years. Wall Street Journal author Dorothy Rabinowitz was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in part for an investigation she conducted that somehow found a couple of problems with this. Secret rooms join mentally ill parents and animals used to teach the alphabet on the list of recurring elements.
  
• Dale Akiki, a developmentally disabled man, was, in addition to molestation, accused of killing giraffes and elephants, and drinking their blood. Found not guilty and later awarded damages.
  
• Bernard Baran was a day-care worker for a government-operated daycare. Two parents, who were drug-addicted police informants, complained that they "didn't want no homo" around their son, and later accused him of molesting him. He was charged and convicted, and then holy crap 21 years later a retrial was ordered. The original charges were dismissed outright and his record cleared.
  
• Country Walk actually might have happened, but if it was, we'll never know, because it's another case where testimony was coercively extracted by unqualified amateurs. The wife of the accused also claims to have been placed into solitary confinement until she agreed to testify against her husband.
  
• The initial charges in Kern County were made by the children's mentally ill grandmother. No physical evidence was ever found, the conviction (of a combined more than 1000 years) was eventually overturned, and one of the child accusers, Ed Sampley, later admitted nothing happened.
  
• Margaret Kelly Michaels of the Wee Care Nursery School was sentenced to 47 years for taking children to a secret room, never located, which she couldn't have had the time to physically reach as described in the accusations levied against her. Her sentence was also eventually overturned, the judge concluding "the interviews of the children were highly improper and utilized coercive and unduly suggestive methods."
  
• The Martensville accused were said to have taken victims to "a devil church", never located. Conviction, again, was overturned, and interviews with the victims were once again found to have been leading and coercive, and to have positively reinforced any potentially incriminating response.
  
• The Oak Hill victims described an incident where they were flown to Mexico, where they were molested by "soldiers", and then flown back to Austin, Texas in time to be picked up by their parents, because it's a daycare. They recalled being made to drink Kool-aid with blood in it, and witnessing or participating in the murder and dismemberment of cats, dogs, and a baby, (from, somewhere?) and subsequently being taken to the cemetery to watch the bodies be hidden by burying them. On one occasion this was witnessed by a passerby, who was promptly murdered with a shotgun and dismembered with a chainsaw. The accused spent 21 years in prison, the District Attorney remarking upon their release that they probably didn't receive a fair trial.

The Dregs fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Feb 9, 2017