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Sixteen people are still imprisoned as a result of inconsistent and heavily coached testimony from children who say they were molested at day-care centers in Massachusetts and North Carolina and by a ring of sexual abusers in Wenatchee, Washington, though appeals court decisions in August and September brought to nine the number of people who’ve been released. Former Wenatchee police detective Robert Perez defends his arrests–which began with allegations by his then ten-year-old foster daughter that dozens of adults had had sex with dozens of children all over town every week for nearly six years–even though he has admitted to harassing his daughter after she tried to change her story.
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Carol Champion, upon being given a special award by the London Tourist Board in July for outstanding work as a rest-room attendant, said at a special ceremony, “I just want to thank my manager, Richard, the cleaning staff, the maintenance men, my customers, and everybody who knows me. I could not have achieved this without them.”
In March a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization conference in Italy issued a press release that suggested increasing the world food supply by breeding more rabbits but expressed concern that governments had a “lack of training” in doing so.
Least Competent Criminals
