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CA - Crusading Calif. D.A. Retires, Leaves Painful Wake

View the article here Day care sex abuse hysteria Sean Penn - Witch Hunt (Web Site) 11/14/2009 By GARANCE BURKE Crusading Calif. D.A. retires, leaving painful wake of overturned cases, costly settlements The molesters drank blood, the children said, and hung them from hooks after forcing them to have sex with their parents. They murdered babies, prosecutors told jurors, and snapped photographs as the horror unfolded. Ed Jagels, renowned as one of California's toughest district attorneys, built his career on the Kern County child molestation cases of the 1980s, putting more than two dozen men and women behind bars to serve decades-long sentences for abusing children. Appellate judges now say most of those crimes never happened. Still, generations of voters have embraced the crusading prosecutor's tough-on-crime agenda in this blue-collar basin just a mountain range north of Los Angeles...continue to full post

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