Date:         Tue, 7 Nov 1995 17:21:02 EST
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Sender: Is there a child sex abuse witchhunt? 
From: Bruce Robinson 
Subject:      Happy news from Canada
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A MVMO witchhunt in Martensville, Saskatchewan, Canada has been
evolving since 1991-SEP-26 when a mother noticed a rash on the
perineum of her 30 month old child. It exploded into a total of 173
charges laid, stayed and revised against 9 adults. At its center was a
babysitting service for young children. The children revealed the
usual horrendous stories (being blindfolded, gaggd, confined in cages,
penetrated with axe handles and vibrators, being thrown naked into
freezers, etc) Incessent, intrusive, leading questioning by
inexperienced police investigators was the only evidence presented in
court by the prosecution. A representative of the SRA industry whipped
up public hysteria; people saw Satanists under every rock. A fairly
typical case.

My daughter just phoned to say that the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting
Commission) news reported that the Court of Appeals has just
overturned the remaining convictions (6 or 7). The accused are now
free to go about trying to pick up the pieces of their destroyed
lives. I'll try to track this down and report on it tomorrow.

Regards
Bruce Robinson
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Date:         Wed, 8 Nov 1995 07:57:12 EST
Reply-To: ocrt@LIMESTONE.KOSONE.COM
Sender: Is there a child sex abuse witchhunt? 
From: Bruce Robinson 
Subject:      Saskatchewan case
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Regina, Saskatchewan; The Canadian Press:

"Evidence lacking in sex abuse charges"

"The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has upheld a second sexual assault
conviction against Travis Stering but stayed six others against him in
the Martensville child sex abuse case.

In a 124 page judgment released yesterday, the three judges
unanimously ruled there was not enough evidence to support six of the
convictions, which dealt with the sexual assault of several children
at an unlicensed day care centre run by Travis's parents, Ron and
Linda Sterling."

Note from BAR:
There had always been some belief that at the core of the 173 charges
made against Travis Sterling and his parents, there was some fondling
of a girl by Travis which was unrelated to the operations of the day
care/babysitting service.

May the Wennatchees, Edentons etc of the world be settled in this way.

Regards
Bruce Robinson
Coordinator
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The  Ontario Centre for Religious Tolerance   disseminates  accurate
information on minority  religions  and  exposes  religious  hatred.
Box 27026, Frontenac PO, Kingston ON Canada K7M8W5. F/V(613)547-6600
Visit our home page at http://www.kosone.com/people/ocrt/ocrt_hp.htm

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