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.
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?