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In the tight-knit community of Lorain, Ohio, a whirlwind of horror swept through as unsettling allegations surfaced - a trusted bus driver and her alleged companion accused of shattering the innocence of preschoolers in the respected Head Start program. The verdict? Life-long prison sentences that would cast a shadow over…
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You may remember the hysteria that formed in the US in the early eighties involving childcare workers and child molestation charges. This story occurred in the early nineties, well after those earlier cases, but contains many of the same elements that led to countless false convictions in those earlier child molestation trials.
It begins in 1993 with an accusation of child molestation by a black man named Joeseph Allen. The accusation by the child’s mother also included a claim against a bus driver, Nancy Smith, who was accused of driving the four-year-old child to the home where the molestation took…
From Emilio's list on wrongful convictions and their causes.
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