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Posted on 04/25/2002 7:56:29 AM PDT by floriduh voter
It was one of the most spectacular cases Janet Reno faced as Miami-Dade County state attorney: The owners of an unlicensed day care center accused of molesting more than 20 children under their care.
Frank Fuster, owner of Country Walk day care in southwest Dade, was convicted of 14 counts and sentenced to 165 years in prison in 1985. The methods Reno used to convict him served as a national model and burnished Reno's image as a children's advocate.
Now, the PBS documentary series Frontline will air allegations from Fuster's wife that Reno coerced her into testifying against her husband and that the children's allegations were fabricated. Fuster's wife, Ileana Flores, said Reno visited her in jail to pressure her into helping prosecutors.
The show, Did Daddy Do It?, scheduled to air tonight, casts a critical eye on the techniques Reno's office and police used to obtain crucial evidence from the victims and Flores.
Reno was state attorney from 1978 to 1992 before President Clinton appointed her U.S. attorney general. She is now the Democratic front-runner for governor, aiming to defeat Republican Gov. Jeb Bush in November.
Flores, who was 18 at the time, pleaded guilty and testified against her husband in return for a 10-year sentence. Fuster has steadfastly maintained his innocence.
"What I testified at trial was not the truth," said Flores. Her ex-husband, she says, is innocent.
She said investigators kept her naked in a Dade County jail cell, forced her to take cold showers and broke her down psychologically.
Flores made similar claims soon after she pleaded guilty in 1985, but later changed her story. When asked to recall details of the case, Reno told Frontline, "I haven't looked at the file in 15 years. I would need you to bring me all the files, and I don't foresee having the time to go through the files."
Nicole Harburger, her campaign spokesman, said Reno stands by her record.
Her deputy at the time, prosecutor David Marcus, defended their techniques in the case. It involved interviewing the child victims on camera, then showing the taped interviews to the jury.
Frontline spokeswoman Erin Martin Kane said the piece is a followup to a 1998 Frontline story that recalled the hysteria of several day care abuse cases across the United States. Flores approached a Frontline producer last summer and offered to tell her story, Martin said.
-- Times political editor Adam C. Smith contributed to this report.
Adam C. Smith writing for the St. Pete Times imo is the driving force behind a change in philosophy at that paper. They've been going after Janet and downplaying McLawyer. Thanks, Smith. You're the reason I re-upped with the Times and it's been YEARS.
Check your local listings for Frontline this week. This will air tonight at 10:00 pm in Tampa Bay on WEDU-Channel 3.
And, let's keep major focus on the leader of the race, our Governor Jeb Bush.
Keep up the good work, Jeb. I caught your teacher support commercial this morning on a report. YOU, GO, GUV!
I understand that neither Janet or McLawyer can afford to do tv spots yet. Believe me, I can wait.
Commie PBS going after Reno? THIS IS HUGE!
The media has looked at the polls and realized Reno cannot defeat Bush. Time to give McBride a shot.
So let's see how fair the liberal media is. They b!tched and moaned for weeks about our treatment of some of the worst Taliban and Al-Queda who were trying to destroy the U.S., but Renob's similar treatment of an 18 year old girl who worked in a day care center will get all of a ten second mention, and then they'll "Move on."
There's a really nasty reporter who works for NPR (I think). Her name is Debra Roberts. I believe the Times dropped her. That was a good move. You'd recognize her work if you saw it. Her bitter, negative story on the inauguration activities needed psychoanalysis.
Some libs are completely miserable. Their idealistic world doesn't exist and it must be hard to accept that they are wrong after all.
This might be interesting to watch, even if it is PBS.
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Actually, the Frontline show has had the best reports on Islamic terrorists, including Steve Emerson's "Jihad in America" a few years ago. Lsst week, before Jenin erupted, they had a show on Jenin shot a few weeks ago. Somehow a camera crew was given permission by Pali's to shoot what was going on there. Very informative. The place was wall-to-wall guns, vats of explosives, hate-crazed terrorists, etc. Anyone who had lit a match would have blown it sky-high. When Sharon's troops went in, anyone who had watched that show would have known they had to root out that nest of vipers.
Frontline also did a show called Hunting Bin Laden after first WTC blowup attempt and updated after 9/11. I picked up transcript at PBS and posted it here at this link. It was very informative about embassy bombings in Africa, and Binny's network of al Qaeda thugs, some of whom were US citizens.
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Translated: "I don't have to answer no steenkn' questions."
99% of the media output is tainted and slanted towards a left-wing view of the world. Simultaneously 99% of wrongdoing by any left-of-center political figure is covered over and propagandized out of existence by media coverage.
Then, every once in a while, some media story comes out which - although not slanted to the right - at least doesn't cover over wrongdoing by a left-of-center figure.
And when that happens, there's always somebody who comes out of the woodwork to ask "What happened to the "liberal media" thing?"
Hilarious.
I guess if you saw Hitler pat a Jewish kid on the head you'd think to yourself "I guess Hitler doesn't hate Jews after all", as well....
Do you honestly think that one story like this somehow means there's no media bias?
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