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Posted on 12/29/2007 6:15:51 PM PST by Clint Williams
WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) - The city of Wenatchee and a former pastor acquitted of child sex charges in the 1990s have settled a court fight for $700,000.
The settlement ends more than 11 years of civil litigation between the city and Robert "Roby" Roberson. Roberson was one of dozens of people arrested during an investigation into an alleged sex ring at the East Wenatchee Pentecostal Church.
Roberson filed suit in 1998 accusing the city of violating his civil rights.
Neither Roberson nor the city would reveal the amount of the settlement this month.
Association of Washington Cities Risk Management Services also declined to provide the amount. It released the figure $700,000 figure this week in response to a public disclosure request.
The Power to Harm, A record of abuses in Wenatchee. For recent developments, see the Aftermath section. The town of Wenatchee, Wash., made world headlines ...
Janet Waco was lead prosecutor in Miami, Florida in the '80's and was involved in several fraudulent sex crime witch trials. In fact, during her tenure in Miami, Janet Reno had not only succumbed to the hysteria of the child-abuse panic of the 1980s, she had reveled in it. For example, the prosecution of Frank Fuster was one of the first successful "ritual abuse" cases, and Reno's work on it--intimidation, coercion, and all--would become a national model for gaining convictions.
She was an extremely malevolent lesbian activist/misandryst and is representative of the type of appointees we can expect , if there ever is a President Hitlery.
Reno’s face would make a good anti Billary poster a reminder.
All those lives and families destroyed and none of the CPS scum involved have paid the slightest penalty.
That really stinks.
i remember these cases quite well. dorothy rabinowitz covered this in the wall street journal, quite extensively. it was bizarre, and many people (often indigent or poorly represented, just like the salem witch trials) were accused by a very sick little girl whose guardian was a detective, as i recall, and always seemed to find a pedophile under every, well, bush.
Michael Reagan also covered this story quite a bit on his radio show. If I remember correctly, the teenage girl that made all the accusations was also having an affair with the investigating police officer. It was heart breaking to hear the stories of children and foster children that were being ripped away from loving parents and no one would listen to them. Classic example of government out of control and a true threat when a handful of people can do so much damage.
yeah, i think they drove around and she pointed at houses where the supposed acts took place, including the basement of the church, where member after member, shall we say (sheesh), violated the girl repeatedly. of course, the stories she told were impossible to actually have HAPPENED, but that didn’t seem to matter. i think the detective’s name was perez. these were horror cases. absolutely horrors.
Yes. You struck a memory there... Detective Bob Perez, and a Dogpile search turned up a lot I had forgotten.
The idea of ritual abuse cases with "recovered memories(TM)" as evidence started with the infamous McMartin case in LA and reached its ultimate expression in the cases in Wenatchee, Janet Reno's cases, and the case which Scott Harshbarger was involved in in Mass. Far as I can tell, Janet Reno's cases were the worst of the lot and it's absolutely astounding to me that she's never been sued over any of them; in fact one victim, Frank Fuster, is still rotting in a Flori-DUH prison for crimes which never happened from one of Reno's cases.
In the case of Bobby Fijnje, an innocent 14-year-old boy was held without bond for 18 months and tried as an adult for more crimes which never happened. The family was told that unless they copped a plea, Bobby would be in an adult prison population and would be dead from AIDS within two years. A jury found Bobby innocent on seven of seven charges. One of Reno's henchmen, asked what had gone wrong with the prosecution on which 3 million dollars of the Dade County taxpayers' money had been spent, replied that they hadn't spent enough money; new charges were being drawn up the same night and the Fijnje family fled to Holland.
Fijnje's Father sent an incindiary letter to The NY Times upon learning of Reno's appointment to AG.
But the worst case of all was that of the Fusters.
Try reading through that story about Ileana Flores/Fuster. Torquemada and the inquisition didn't have anything on Janet Reno.
I remember a later news story on this, when it started to get questioned.
The detective foster father would drive around with the little girl in the car, and she’d point to houses saying “the person who lived there molested me”. And he’d interview her in private and take notes, without even tape recordings. And those hand written notes would result in people being charged.
If the detective had beef with anyone, they’d get grilled - and probably dumped in the freezer.
Why isn’t Janet Reno in jail?
I can understand why she's not in jail; what's harder to grasp is why she hasn't been sued into oblivion.
The thing which was odd about the KKKlinton regime was the gathering of psychopaths together; usually psychos don't like being around other psychos and know better than to trust one another. In the KKKlinton admin you had a baker's dozen psychos together in one place, both KKKlintons, Reno, Albright, Wesley Clark, Begala, Carville, Babbitt.... You'd assume that some sort of a KKKlinton aegis continues to protect Janet Reno at least from any sort of prosecution but what protects her from lawsuits is a cosmic mystery.
Never thought of it that way; but you are right.
They belong in Leavenworth for life.
That's not the only story like that. Clarence Thomas' memoir, My Grandfather's Son, is another. And you could throw the rape of the Duke lacrosse team into that category . . . and for that matter the "Killian Memos" fraud. Or the 2000 Bush v. Gore fiasco.I think the Clarence Thomas story would be a natural for Mel Gibson, given that Thomas and Gibson are both Catholic and the story has strong religious implications.
Years later, it was revealed that the CPS workers were hand picked, chosen for their unique abilities to wrench "confessions" out of these kids. The news showed one such session, one of a very few that were recorded, where the CPS worker was using dolls to hammer home to a boy about 4 or 5 that if he didn't remember being touched inappropriately by a grownup, he was stupid. The kid kept to his story, and was visibly distressed at the brow beating he was receiving.
The entire state was incensed at CPS's tactics - in some cases they made us afraid of our own kids. They quickly learned that if they didn't get their way, one tall tale and their parent was gone.
There was a little too friendly a relationship between Perez and Judge Bridges who heard these cases - we remember him him as Judge "earring" from the 2004 vote fraud case, who determined that challenges to voter registrations have to be made before the vote, and that we have to prove how the illegal voter voted.
The last I heard in the news, even though the case was blown wide open, anyone who had a plea bargain shoved down their throat had to still serve their sentence, and there were a number of people in prison at that time (approx. 2000 -2001).
There may still be people in prison today from that witchunt, and this is the 1st I've heard of any settlements or anything else since the expose', after which the case was promptly shoved back under the carpet, through the floorboards, and deep into the dirt under the basement.
I wonder, was Fraudoire involved in that scam?
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